Category: Primary 1

This week we have started to learn our initial sounds. We have been working very hard to read, make, say and write the ‘a’ sound and the ‘t’ sound. On Wednesday, we used our new sounds to build a word! We were able to make, say and write ‘at’. To learn our sounds, we used play dough, played ICT games, made our sounds with paint and practised writing our sounds with rainbow writing, graffiti walls and whiteboards.

On Friday, we had our first visit to the school library. We will go to the library every Friday so that we can choose texts from a wide range of genres.

In numeracy this week, we have been continuing to work on our number formation. We revised writing 0-2 and learned about the number 3. We used jewels, counters and Lego to make 3, practised formation on the car mats, smartboard and whiteboards and used pipe cleaners to make the number 3.

This week we continued to learn about 3D shapes. We played 3D shape games on the smartboard and laptops, used 3D shapes to build, used our play dough to make 3D shapes and used our multilinking cubes to make different cubes and cuboids. During our outdoor play on Wednesday, we used our construction materials to make cubes, cuboids and triangular prisms!

On Friday we found out that we won Class of the Week! As a reward, we got five minutes extra play time. Later on Friday we also found out that we won the peg challenge! Miss Harrison was extremely proud of us.

Thank you very much for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.

P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂

On Tuesday afternoon we had our first PE lesson. We learned to develop our movement skills and to take turns with others to use the equipment safely. We enjoyed skipping, throwing & catching with the balls and bean bags, jumping with the space hoppers, balancing on the bench and running.

This week we have continued to work with our buddies to learn how to use the laptops. The P7 buddies showed us how to log on to the laptops, play games, draw pictures and look for information on the internet.

In Literacy we have been learning to listen for different sounds. Miss Harrison played different sounds and we had to identify the first and the last sound. We found the sneezing, baby crying & toilet flushing sounds very funny! On Thursday we also used our listening skills to find rhyming words. We looked at the rhyming words in Room on the Broom and played a rhyming game on Education City.

In numeracy we have been learning to form ‘0’, ‘1’ and ‘2’. We used our fingers and cotton buds to paint different numbers, made 0-2 with counters & jewels, used play dough to make numbers and practised writing the numbers in our workbooks and on the whiteboards and smartboard.

On Thursday we learned about 3D shapes. We looked at cones, cylinders, spheres, pyramids, cubes and cuboids. We used the 3D shapes to build towers and robots, played 3D shape games on the smartboard and used our play dough to make spheres, cubes and cuboids.

Thank you very much for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend & enjoy the sunshine!

P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂

Hello and welcome to our blog for those of you who are not familiar with it already.  Here are a few photographs from our first week at school.  We have been making friends, learning rules and routines and finding our way about the school.  We really are settling in well.

We have also had fun playing outside.

This is Philip, he is not very good at listening so we are helping him to be a good listener.

Our P7 Buddies have been fantastic all week, helping us at breaktime and lunch.  They also came to our classroom on Friday and showed us how to switch on and log on to the netbooks and played games with us.

We have come so far in just three and a half days!  Here is our very first class photograph.

Have a lovely weekend.  Love from P1B and Mrs Kennedy x

Welcome to our first blog post! We have had a busy first week in P1A and have enjoyed catching up with old friends and making new friends.  Miss Harrison has been so impressed at how well we have settled into P1 and how quickly we were able to follow the school routines. Here are some of our photos from our first few days in P1A…

Miss Harrison has also been very impressed with our drawing skills. We drew fantastic pictures of ourselves on our first day of school.

On Wednesday, we learned about children’s rights. We discovered that children have the right to a bed, the right to a home, the right to play, the right to food and the right to go to school. Have a look at our fabulous class charter! We made our own Lego minifigs and displayed them on the wall with rights that we are entitled to at school.

Today our P7 buddies helped us to log on to the school laptops using a username and password. They also helped us to find the Google Chrome icon and together, we used key words to find specific information.

Our P7 buddies have been a huge help this week. They have supported us in the playground at break and lunch, have assisted us in getting our lunch in the dining hall and have helped us to settle into P1. Thank you very much to the P7 buddies for their wonderful support!

Thank you for reading our first blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.

P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂

Today, Sammy and Zara represented our class in Springfield’s Got Talent. Sammy sang ‘We Built This City’ and Zara played ‘Hot Cross Buns’ on her glockenspiel. Both acts were absolutely fantastic and we were very proud of them for performing in front of such a big audience.

Today we had a magician in P1A! Thomas performed some magic tricks in class and dazzled us with his magic. Well done, Thomas!

What a talented bunch we are! Singing, playing musical instruments, performing magic tricks and also writing our own books! Today we finished our own story books and they are ready to share with other classes and then people at home. This week, we looked at blurbs and we learned that they tell you what the story is going to be about. We wrote our own blurbs for our books and finished our illustrations. Miss Harrison said that she was so proud of us as we worked very hard and created brilliant books!

We can’t wait to share our books with our families!

P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂

This week we have been learning to count in jumps in 10s and 5s. We played games on Education City, found missing numbers in sequences to 100, ordered numbers in the correct order and used our knowledge of counting on in 5s and 10s to connect the dots. Some of us were able to count up beyond 100! We also looked at sorting information into Carroll diagrams and reading and making graphs.

Soon there will be 19 new story books in the world! We have been working really hard to write our own stories using characters and settings which we created ourselves. This week we looked at features of a front cover to help us to design our own front covers for our books. Our titles are fantastic and we put a lot of effort into our illustrations. Next week we will complete our books and before bringing them home, share them with P1B and P1/2.

On Monday Mrs Goddard came to visit us to talk to us about being a doctor. She told us about what she does to help people. Mrs Goddard showed us some of her equipment. We got to use the stethoscope to listen to our hearts, we got our oxygen levels checked and some of us even got our blood pressure monitored! We asked Mrs Goddard lots of questions about being a doctor and learned about how doctors help people in the community.

On Wednesday, we had a mini Sports Day with Mrs Reid in the hall. We took part in different potted sports such as hockey dribbling, football dribbling, hurdles and angels and we even had some races! Hopefully the rain will stay off and we’ll be able to take part in a whole school Sports Day next Wednesday!

Today we attended the P7 Leaver’s Assembly. The P7’s did a fantastic job of sharing their Springfield memories with us through music and drama. At the end of the assembly, we surprised the P7’s with videos from each of us to our buddies! We would like to thank the P7’s for being such wonderful and friendly buddies and for helping us settle into P1. We wish you all the best of luck in S1!

Thank you for reading our blog post and we hope that you have a lovely weekend.

P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂