A few parents have asked about snack for the cinema trip on Thursday. I would suggest just giving what you would normally just give for snack in school. Something that is easy to open and not in a plastic tub which could accidentally be left behind. Also, too much snack and they might be ill on the bus journey back! :o)
As always, it has been a busy week in P1 with lots of learning going on.
This week in Literacy we have learned the ‘b’ and the ‘h’ sounds. We have been taking part in lots of activities to help us recognise, say, read and write the sounds. We have even been blending them with other sounds to read words.
We wrote invites to our grown ups asking them to come along to our nativity ‘The Sleepy Shepherd’ on Wednesday 12th December. We have been working hard on learning our nativity songs and would love to share them with you. Tickets will be on sale soon from the school office (we even designed the tickets – how talented are we?).
In Numeracy this week we have been revising missing numbers on number lines as well as developing our skills in counting and addition.
We also learned about firework safety and the things we can do to keep ourselves and others safe while having fun. We designed posters to help others learn the firework safety code. We each chose a rule and then had to draw a picture which gave a clear message of how to stay safe.
Afterwards, we wrote an acrostic poem together then we painted firework pictures without using paintbrushes or even our hands!
We also learned about the Hindu festival of Diwali and how millions of people celebrate it. We listened to a Diwali story about Rama and Sita and even made our own Diwali lamps.
We are looking forward to lots more learning next week. Have a good weekend!
Did you know that 1 in 10 people are dyslexic?
Dyslexia ranges from mild to severe. 1 person in 10 is dyslexic and of those, 1 in 4 has severe dyslexia. It often runs in the family.
Dyslexia can affect reading, writing and spelling.
If you have dyslexia you may –
Dyslexia can also affect:
Everyone is different and dyslexia affects people in different ways. Not everyone with dyslexia will experience the same things.
Dyslexia is not a sign of low intelligence. Some of the most successful business people are dyslexic.
The process of identification of dyslexia involves the child, the class teacher, the parents and the Support for learning teacher. A profile of strengths and needs is developed. Targeted intervention and strategies are put in place, assessments carried out and an identification can be made dependent on progress made and the continuing needs of the child.
Log on to https://www.dyslexiascotland.org.uk/ to find out more about dyslexia
or if you are between 8 and 18, log on to https://unwrapped.dyslexiascotland.org.uk/
Safer Internet Day 2019 will be celebrated globally on Tuesday 5th February with the slogan: ‘Together for a better Internet’.
Coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre the celebration sees hundreds of organisations get involved and join a national conversation about using technology responsibly, respectfully, critically and creatively.
The day offers the opportunity to highlight positive uses of technology and to explore the role we all play in helping to create a better and safer online community. It calls upon young people, parents, carers, teachers, social workers, law enforcement, companies, policymakers, and wider, to join together and help to create a better internet.
Each year for Safer Internet Day the UK Safer Internet Centre creates a range of resources to help educational settings and wider to celebrate the day. This includes:
The UK Safer Internet Centre invites everyone to join Safer Internet Day supporters across the globe to help create a better internet on Tuesday 5th February 2019, and throughout the whole year!
UK Safer Internet Centre
The UK Safer Internet Centre is a partnership of three leading charities – Childnet International, the Internet Watch Foundation and South West Grid for Learning, (SWGfL) – with a shared mission to make the internet a better place for children and young people.
The partnership was appointed by the European Commission as the Safer Internet Centre for the UK in January 2011 and is one of the 31 Safer Internet Centres of the Insafe network.
The UK Safer Internet Centre delivers a wide range of activity to promote the safe and responsible use of technology by children and young people:
For more information visit www.saferinternet.org.uk and the websites of the partners: Childnet, the Internet Watch Foundation and SWGfL.
At Parents Evening, we showed you our Murrayfield website and promised that we would share the link with you.
Here it is!
http://www.murrayfieldprimary.westlothian.org.uk/
As always, please feel free to share any feedback. We hope you find it helpful.
We can’t believe how quickly the time is passing in P1. It must be because we are always so busy!
This week we went along to the French cafe in P5 with Mrs Craig. We tried lots of different French food. Some we loved but others we weren’t too sure about!
We have also been working hard on our literacy skills and have been sliding the sounds we can heard together to make words. We had to listen carefully and decide whether the sounds came at the start, the middle or the end of the word.We have also been playing games which help us to recognise and remember the different sounds we have been learning.
In numeracy we have been working on recognising and using numbers 7,8,9 and 10 . We looked for the numbers within a mix of lots of different numbers, did lots of counting to 10 and back to 0 again, made the numerals from play-doh and wrote the numbers. We even made number 8 spiders because a spider has 8 legs!
Next week we will be looking for evidence that Autumn has arrived, finding out about our sense of touch and revising all of our sounds and numbers that we have been learning about.
We were delighted by the response from our teaching colleagues in Cran Geverier, who came to meet us to talk about how to support our pupils’ learning. After eating a delicious lunch rhey spent the afternoon with us, showing us some of the beautiful sights in and around Cran Gevrier and Annecy. We were then treated to another delicious, traditional meal of “Croziflette” and “jambon cru”, courtesy of the chairperson of the Twinning Committee. It was a really wonderful weekend and we are all looking forward to sharing our memories with our children at Murrayfield and helping them to learn more about our French neighbours.
Today in Plan, Play and Review we have been very busy trying out our new activities. Our choices this week are:
Loose parts play with pasta shapes – what pictures can you make?
Build a road for a car to travel down or a path for a person to walk along.
Playing a game about our emotions.
Using our sense of taste and investigating different tastes. What one tasted sour?
Painting our faces (don’t worry not our real faces) to show our emotions. Ask us about the different colours we used for our emotions?
Just a reminder that West Lothian Courier will be in school tomorrow morning to take photos of our new Primary 1 pupils. Don’t forget to brush their hair and send them in with a smile! We will try our hardest to keep them as pristine as possible for the photos.
