Good Morning P7 and welcome back, nearly. We will see you tomorrow and are really looking forward to meeting you and getting to know all of the wonderful things that you are capable of.  In preparation for that we have some tasks for you to complete at home today.

Firstly, we will need to create our Class Charters, to keep up with our Rights Respecting Schools approach.  You don’t have to write anything down for this task but come to school tomorrow with some ideas for each of these areas.  We apply three rules across the school: READY, RESPECTFUL, SAFE but what would that mean in our classrooms specifically? Think of the UN Rights of a child, how we interact with each other and how we can make our class a place for learning.  Try and have 2 or 3 ideas for each area you can share in class as other pupils might come up with the same ideas.

Because you haven’t been in school for a while, your times tables might be a bit rusty!  The times tables are one of the best tools you have in maths and knowing them is one of the biggest helps out there.  Identify 3 of the times tables that you know you need to work on.

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

This site has lots of games and tips on learning your tables and has them already written out for you.  Write down your 3 choices of tables three times each. Recite them out loud three times each and then ask someone to test you on them.  Don’t worry if you get some wrong, learning the tables takes time and repetition.

Finally, your literacy task is to find a book that you’ll be happy to read at ERIC times for the next two weeks.  It can be a new book or an old favourite of yours, it can be fiction or non-fiction but make sure it will last you this week and next.  Read the first chapter and we’ll ask a few of you to share your books with the class and why you picked it.

Really looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow,

Mr McGurn and Mrs Craig.