1. Help at home.
2. Get some fresh air.
3. Have fun
4. Enjoy

Have fun this week checking our advent calendar 🎄🎅🏽☃️

This week we want you to have some fun getting into the Christmas spirit.

Choose something from this list to do with your family.

• Watch a Christmas film
• Make some snowflakes out of paper and put them up
• Sing your favourite Christmas songs really loudly
• Feed the birds in your garden or at the park
• Have a pyjama day
• Go on a walk to find the best Christmas lights and decorations

As you know we will be moving soon to our new building. Keeping our children safe will remain our top priority.

The children have walked with their teacher from the current Ayr Grammar to the new school and they also took part in a Walk to School Week. This is all part of our Travel Plan – to encourage as many people as possible to walk, cycle, scoot or park and stride to the new school.

We would now like to ask for your family’s support. I have attached 2 plans to this email – one shows the suitable parking and journey times from these points to the new school, the other shows crossing areas.

The home work challenge is for your family to either talk through this with your child/children or even better, to walk this as a family.

If you do take the family on the walking route to the new school, we would love if you could send in a photograph that we can share on the school Twitter feed.

We would encourage as many families a possible to get involved, it’s a lovely way to talk through what will be their new routine in January.

 

Notes about School Entry System to help you on your family walk/talk

If out walking, please point out the entrance/exit areas for your child/children – P1 and 2 will enter from the gate at the front of the school building on Fort Street (GATE 1) – you go through the gate and turn left into a separate P1/2 playground. Primary 3 to 7 pupils will enter from South Harbour Street– drop off with school staff at the gap to the right of glass fronted Archive building – the children then go up the stone stairs to the playground(another adult will be at GATE 3 to greet your child.)

Once the children are in through the gates there are no other exits. All gates will be covered by staff when these are opened.

MORNING

P1/2 – only P1 adults in the morning can enter the P1/2 playground (1 adult only). P2 should be dropped off at GATE 1. Staff will ensure they get to their class.

P3-7 – It is expected that all P3-7 children will enter independently from GATE 3 on South Harbour Street– staff will be there to cover gates and direct children to their classrooms.

END OF DAY

P1 parents should enter through GATE 1 (same as drop off) at 3:10pm

P2 and 3 parents should enter from GATE 2 at 3:10pm (this gate is accessed through the main entrance on Fort Street but sits to the right hand side – opposite GATE 1). You can then collect your child/children from the class teacher – signage will be placed in the playground to help and staff will be there to assist. Once you have your child/children please leave through GATE 3 on to South Harbour Street.

P4-7 will be released from GATE 3 on to South Harbour Street – please arrange a meeting point AWAY from the entrance area.

Parking and Journey Times

Drawing 002 – Parking Map-Layout1

We have 3 tasks this week:

1. Reading Eggs

2. 2D Shapes

3. Fast Phonics

1. Reading Eggs – Lesson 1 – the letter m

There are 8 short, fun tasks for you to complete.

Click on the Reading Eggs Logo and use your details to login in.

2. 2D Shapes

We have been investigating shapes, sorting, describing and being creative with them.

In this task there are 25 questions for you to practise

• Matching simple shapes (2D)
• Matching shapes to a given word (2D)

Remember to set a timer for no more than 10 minutes.

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Login to try the 2D Shapes

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3. Fast Phonics

Continue learning and practising the sounds you know.

Click on the logo, then watch the video below to find out what to do next – Remember to set a timer for no more than 10 minutes.

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We have 3 tasks this week:

1. Singing

2. Counting

3. Fast Phonics

1. Singing

Unfortunately,  due to current restrictions we are not allowed to sing with the children at school at the moment.

Singing is so important for learning about patterns of language, rhyme and to develop vocabulary.

Next week is World  Nursery Rhyme week, so we want you to sing at home.  Click on the picture below and then click on the interactive tags to listen and join in with some nursery rhymes.

We’d love to hear what your favourite rhymes and songs are, leave a comment to let us know.

2. Counting 

We have been learning to count more and less and compare and order numbers to 20.

Remember to set a timer for no more than 10 minutes.

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3. Fast Phonics

Click on the logo, then watch the video below to find out what to do next – Remember to set a timer for no more than 10 minutes.

 

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Numbers 

We have been learning to add 2 numbers together.

We have learned to use objects and the Count On strategy to help us.

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Login and complete the practise task – Add within 5.

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We have been working hard to learn our single sounds.

Click on the logo below, login using your Education City username and password.

Complete the Phonics Practise games.

Numbers 

We have been learning to count, sequence and write numbers. 

Practise counting forwards and backwards:

0-5, 5-0

0-10, 10-0

0-20, 20-0

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Login and complete the practise task – Count within 20

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We have been working hard to learn our single sounds.

Click on the logo below, login using your Education City username and password.

Complete the Phonics s, a, t, p games

Numbers 

We have been learning to count, sequence and write numbers. 

Look for different ways that numbers are represented, e.g. signs, dice, remote controls, posters, house numbers. 

Read the numbers you find.

For an extra challenge:

1. Can you count up to the numbers you find?
2. Can you count backwards from the numbers you find?

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Login and complete the practise task – Count to 10 

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