A huge thank you to all of our P1 families who joined us for our first family breakfast club this morning. A great way to start the day. #readytolearn #Breakfastclub pic.twitter.com/6HaFycfftt
— Sacred Heart Primary (@sacred_heartps) August 23, 2023
Literacy
In Term 1, we will begin our BugClub Phonics journey and learn our phase 2 sounds. Each week we will learn 2 new sounds and participate in a range of fun and active lessons to explore each one. Using our sounds we will begin to read and spell our CVC words by blending sounds together. We will begin with wordless books to practise our story telling skills and as we progress through our sounds will move on to reading simple sentences.
We will begin to form our letters and work on our fine motor skills and pencil control. This will help us when we begin to write. We will be using Talk for Writing to explore texts and learn different genres. In term 1, we will be looking at The Gruffalo to write a journey tale, Pumpkin Soup to write an instructional piece and Dear Santa to practise our letter writing.
Numeracy
In Numeracy, we are focusing on number recognition and formation to 10 and then 20. We will look at different songs to help us remember the order of numbers and also counting in 2s as we learn all about number patterns. In number talks, we will focus on addition to 10 through word problems and using concrete materials to help us solve them.
In our Numeracy topic, we will be focusing on 2D and 3D shapes and their properties. We will explore shape and patterns in our environment and create our own natural shape patterns.
RE
In R.E, we are beginning to learn who God is and the values of God. We are learning what it means to be a Christian and that God made all of us unique. We have started exploring the stories of the Bible and will cover The Creation story to help us understand the world around us.
Health and Wellbeing
We have began our P1 experience looking at different emotions and how they make us feel and how we can respond to them. It has been a big change for us all but we are settling in great and health and wellbeing inputs will allow us to progress and develop emotionally and support our readiness for learning.
We have recently received a visit from Child Smile and learning how to brush our teeth. We are becoming more independent and learning how to take care of ourselves and our bodies. In P.E, Mr Crookston teaches us different skills and how we can keep ourselves fit and active and identify the benefits of this.
