We had the chance to taste lots of different fruits and vegetables!
Explored how the different fruit and veg is grown.
Coloured in some funny fruit pictures.
Tried on funny costumes to turn us into fruit and veg!
Maths Week — Parents Open Morning
P1–3
Colour by numbers — linking number recognition with art
3D shape nets — folding and discovering solid shapes
Junk modelling — building and designing with everyday materials
Playdough numbers — forming numbers and building fine motor skills
One more, one less — exploring number order and counting
Numbers to 100 — counting, ordering and recognising larger numbers
Please follow the link below to see what everyone got up to.
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P1-3 have settled well back into school after the summer holidays. It has been lovely to see our new P1 pupils learn our school routines and become a part of our school!
Mrs Parker teaches the Primary 1’s every morning till lunch and Mrs McLean teaches Primary 2/3 every day, with Primary 1’s joining us in the afternoons. We are enjoying using both classrooms and our open area to extend our learning through play-based-learning.
We have started the term by creating our Class Charter, learning about our rights and how to respect others and our school. In Health and Wellbeing we are learning about the importance of being kind, encouraging others and valuing friendships.
This term we have been learning all about knights and castles. Everyone has shown great enthusiasm with this topic and we are keen to learn more. On the 21st of October we will be going on a class trip to Culzean Castle to explore the inside of the castle and find out some more interesting facts.
We have also been learning numbers, colours and greetings in French with Mrs Parker. We have even started answering our morning register in French!
In maths primary 1 have been focusing on numbers to 10. We have been using Ten Town to learn the songs and stories of the different number characters and working hard to form these numbers correctly.
P3/2 have been working on place value with numbers up to the thousands! We have also been learning about rounding to the nearest 10/100, shapes and their properties, patterns and a little bit of symmetry. A very busy term growing our brains!
P2/3’s Talk for Writing text this term was Jack and the Beanstalk. We have been focusing on using similes, connectives and lots of adjectives to make our writing even better.
PE is on a Monday and Thursday. We have been lucky to work with Jessica from Active Schools on a Thursday who has been teaching us badminton.
Reading books are sent home and changed regularly for homework. Spelling tasks are set on Sumdog weekly for pupils to complete at home.
Please remember to check your child’s Learning Journal regularly. Staff share photos of learning and the children are also encouraged to share work they are proud of.
We would like to introduce you to our new classes for 2026/27.
Primary 2/1 have had an exciting term 1. We have welcomed our 6 new shiny primary 1s who have all settled in well to school and are following the rules and routines of the class.
Literacy
Primary 1 have been introduced to Inky the mouse who brings them a new sound every week to learn. He brings a song with him to help us remember the sound and words that can be associated with it. So far, we have learnt, S, A, T, P, I and N and have used lots of different strategies to help us learn these.
Primary 2 have been learning new graphemes together and playing a range of new games and strategies to help us learn. We have been challenging ourselves to learn tricky words and showing great progress so far! We have also been using the Julia Donaldson Songbird books to consolidate the new graphemes and tricky words we have been learning.
Talk for Writing
Primary 2 had an interesting visitor in the classroom who left big footprints and a note. It was a dragon! He introduced us to the story ‘Kassim and the Greedy Dragon’. We have been working together to learn the story and complete different writing challenges to help us develop our writing skills. We can’t wait to see what else the dragon has done.
Numeracy
Primary 1 have been learning the numbers to 10 by visiting Ten Town. Each number is represented by a character who has a story and a song to help us remember. We have developed this by introducing addition to 5 and using the concrete materials to help us. We have also been learning about patterns and using lots of different materials to demonstrate this. We will be moving onto look at shape before the October week.
Primary 2 have been challenging themselves to learn the numbers to 100 and looking at their value. We have been developing our knowledge of place value and breaking numbers down into hundred, tens and ones. Everyone is enjoying using the base ten material to help us. We have also been learning about estimating and rounding as well as adding and subtracting 2 and 3-digit numbers. Pattern has also been our beyond number topic, with a focus on number patterns. We will also be moving onto shape before the October holidays.
Topic
Our topic this term has been animals. We have enjoyed learning all about different animals, where they come from and lots of interesting facts all about them. We had a focus on animals that live on land or water, mothers and their young, zoo animals and being able to place different exotic animals on a map to explain where they come from. It has been an enjoyable topic and all of the class have shown lost of interest in learning more.
PE
Our PE days are a Monday and Wednesday and we are required to change into a change of shoes, t-shirt and shorts to be able to participate. We have had a focus this term on ball skills, with lots of practice of throwing and catching. We are beginning to show great progress with this and will be moving onto tennis after October.
Outdoor learning.
Outdoor learning takes part every Friday with P1 and P2 going out alternate weeks. P1 have been joining the EYC with Mrs McLean and P2 with P3&4 with Mrs Parker.
Term 2 will see Mrs McLean going out with P2 and Mrs Parker joining P1 and the EYC.
We are so excited to see what Term 2 will bring us and what crazy Christmas activities we can get up to!
Now that we are into our final term, we through we could give you a little insight into what P1/2/3 will be getting up to.
We will be continuing to learn new sounds each week and explore these through a range of different activities in school and at home. Please ensure homework is handed in on a Friday each week. This also includes reading books, it is expected each child has at least 2 new books a week to continue their reading progress.
We will be welcoming the pre-school children into our classroom this term to get them ready for Primary 1. The current primary 1’s will be working with them to look at their new topic ‘My School’ where we will explore all aspects of coming to school. P2/3 will be doing a big focus on health and wellbeing as well as a class enterprise.
During the term we will continue to have a big number focus and looking at the 4 operations. As well as this we will be covering, place value, measure and a recap of money and time. This will involve both written and lots of active activities!
Our PE days are a Monday and a Thursday, please ensure your child has the appropriate change as they will not be allowed to take part if they do not. We are currently focusing on athletics in PE with a focus on our upcoming sports day. Outdoor learning will continue this term. Please check the newsletter for specific dates.
We are excited to see what else we can achieve in our final term!
A long term draws to a close with a lovely church service where P1-3 and the EYC entertained us with the Easter story and spring songs. 🐇🐣
Please follow the link to see songs in the Facebook comments. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15NSaMpun9/
Our Easter card winner were presented with a prize. Each year the cards get harder to judge with the children putting in lots of time and effort into making them lovely.
P3 pupils were presented with their certificates from The Quay Zone for completing a 6 weeks block of swimming lessons. 🏊♂️
P7 were also presented with their leavers hoodies to mark the beginning of their final term in primary school.
We hope you all enjoy your Easter Break and look forward to welcoming the children back on the 22nd of April.
