It has been a monumental week in Primary One as we have finished all of the regular Jolly Phonics sounds.  We cannot believe how quickly time has gone!  The children have learned their sounds very well but should continue to practise at home to maintain and be ready for reading books in the new year.  The pupils have been doing super work with their word boxes and are reliably and responsibly returning them each day.  Thank you to parents for your support in making this happen.  The next step for us is to learn the alternate spellings to some of the sounds that we already know.

We also spent a lot of time this week, doing our mental maths.  Pupils were counting with rekenreks and number fans.  Our focus was number bonds to ten should you choose to work on these at home.  We are finishing off data handling tasks in our workbooks.

Nativity rehearsals will continue to increase and intensify over the next three weeks so we would ask that all the pupils learn the song words ready for performance.

We wish you all a lovely weekend as we watch the snow fall outside our window.