St John Ogilvie RC Primary

Primary 1S have settled in very well to school and are becoming very independent.  We have been learning new sounds, numbers, about our senses and all about our school.  Miss Stebbing is very proud of us because we are showing her what good learners we are.  In maths we have been learning about sorting items into sets and about matching.  We have been using these games to help us to match.

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Hello Parents/Families,

Another week in the life of Primary One has gone by and I feel the children have become much more independent! We are unpacking quicker, choosing our lunch tray more confidently and beginning lessons by 9.15! The hope is to one day start at 9am 🙂 Children can now find their way to the toilet and the lines in the morning when Miss Stebbing and I come out to meet the children are so straight I could take my ruler out :-).

We met another new animal in our Number Zoo called Ticklish Two and have learned even more sounds, as you can tell by the homework tasks and flashcards building up. I am so impressed to see the children forming their letters correctly out-with Literacy lessons, such as when they now write their name (I’m only referring to the letters taught so far) and being able to identify these letters in the class library books. Keep up the good work boys and girls!

Reading books are going to start being sent home next week! We have met characters Floppy (the family dog), Kipper (who is actually called Christopher), Chip (otherwise known as David), Biff (Barbra) and good old Mum and Dad. Ask your child why the children are not referred to by their real names and see if they remember (they were too tricky for Kipper to say when he was a toddler).

A highlight of the week was our ‘sound walk’ as we explored our sense of sound. We heard the wind in the trees, cars passing by and an aeroplane among many other sounds. Soon we will be making our own instruments and listening as we make loud, soft, high and low sounds. Look out for a note in the diary requesting recyclable materials from home to help us make our instruments.

Photos of the learning experiences in P1D will be entered into the Blog once all parents have completed the permission form for photos to be taken that was in their ‘Welcome Pack’.

Hello Parents and Families of P1D

The boys and girls have been extremely busy this week at school! Lots of learning has been going on in Primary 1. Learning our sounds began on Monday and we very quickly discovered as the week progressed, that if we put these sounds together, that words can be made! We used magnetic letters to word build at, pat, nap, tap and tan! We also practised writing these on whiteboards. We were very excited to discover the word ‘pat’ in our milk time story and Mrs Devlin showed it to us on the smartboard, under the visualiser. We hope to keep finding the different words we are learning in our environment.

During Maths lessons this week we met a little animal called Penguin One from a Number Zoo. He helped us learn all about the number 1. We are excited to meet the other animals over the coming weeks too and be able to correctly form these numbers also. We sorted straws, dominoes, paper clips, sticks, fruit and stinky socks! We learned that each group is called a ‘set’.

Continuing on from our Science and RE lesson last week, we have been learning more about our senses and made paper plate faces to show some of our body parts. It also helped us to realise that we are all different. Some of us have blonde, brown or black hair (no red heads in the class) and some of us have brown, green, blue or hazel eyes. We learned another song this week called, ‘I Look in the Mirror’ (Lyrics – I look in the mirror and what do I see? Two eyes and a nose and a mouth and that’s me. At school on my copies I’ve written my name. It’s special, it’s mine, no one else has the same.)

We had our photograph taken with our buddy during the week. Our buddies have been very helpful to us. They play with us at break time and lunch time, line us up at the bell and help us make friendships. A few buddies were off school when the photographs were taken so we will take theirs upon their return.

We welcome another new pupil to our class this week called Aryaman. Like all the boys and girls, he is settling in very well and quickly learning our rules and routines. You are very welcome Aryaman.

Finally, this week, as part of our whole school approach, Mrs Devlin introduced an important role that each person will one day have the opportunity to fulfil and that is of ‘Lead Learner’. A Lead Learner tells a visitor to our classroom what we are learning. They also take photographs of the learning (some of them are below) and observe the learning going on inside the classroom. Mrs Devlin writes down comments they make about ‘who is doing good work’ and ‘how do we know’ inside the’ Lead Learner Journal’. This week’s Lead Learner was Niamh. Niamh is wearing a special necklace to let everyone know that she is this week’s Lead Leaner.

Photos of the learning experiences in P1D will be entered into the Blog once all parents have completed the permission form for photos to be taken that was in their ‘Welcome Pack’.