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.

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!

We started this term with learning about the Scots Language. We learned the songs “Jeannie McColl” and performed this at our Scottish afternoon. Primary 1 learned the poem “Mince and Tatties”, Primary 2  did “Crocodile”  and Primary 3 learned “The Sair Finger”. We are so proud of every single one of the pupils for taking the time at home to learn their poem. A big thank you to everyone at home for your help!

With the poetry theme we took on the challenge of becoming poets during our Talk for Writing sessions. We looked at different techniques such as, rhyme, alliteration and similes and used these to create a number of poems.

In maths we have been learning about money and measure, as well as a big focus on number. It has been great to see so many of the pupils challenging themselves with higher numbers and using the concrete materials to help them.

PE days this term will continue to be a Monday and Thursday, please make sure your child has a change of clothes and appropriate trainers / gym shoes on these days.