Category: Primary 1/ 2 Blog

Welcome back everyone! We hope you all had a wonderful October break!

In Maths we continued to look at symmetry and positional language. In Literacy work we were revising our vowel digraph sounds (such as oi/oy and oo/ew) and we chose games to play to practise these as well as writing sentences and our own story this week.

We were learning about Mary Seacole this week as both part of Our Community topic and for Black History Month. We are starting to look at the sorts of groups that we are part of in our community and we are starting to work towards our JASS award at Yellow level (https://www.jasschools.org.uk)/what-is-jass/ which starts this week with a focus on Me and My World.

The week ended with our Halloween party on the 30th of October. I will upload some photos from this in a separate post but congratulations to Dhruv for being selected as a winner by our Pupil Council rep! Well done everyone for some super outift and for a lot of fun!

Homework

Our homework will focus on a JASS task this week. As part of Me and My World, we are asking you to look into some groups you belong to. This can be clubs or organisations or links through family. These can be groups you joined in the past or are still a part of. The idea is to find out the range of links you have within your community and to become aware of these for yourself. Below is some suggested ideas you could look at together:

While some notes or paper copies of what you discuss would be lovely to put into their JASS folders, it will be sufficient for your child to be able to talk about some of their wider community groups for Thursday. As we progress through our JASS work, your child might consider ways they can help out in their community but to start with it can be really nice and helpful to see all the places and people we have connections with!

Thank you to everyone who has sent in bottle caps to help us make poppies!
We will be working on this tomorrow to have complete for Thursday. If you are making some poppies at home yourself please feel free to send some in for then.

We leave you with a traditional French song (translated as The Cats’ Ball) that the children enjoyed watching and listening to:

As we come up to our first proper holiday week in Primary 2 we were working hard on our buildings as part of Our Community topic! Last week we had thought about the jobs people could have and made some stick people and this week we thought about the sort of buildings around us and what sort of buildings we could make ourselves. We thought about the design of the building itself and the furniture and other things inside our chosen building. We thought about the types of materials we might need for our ideas and you should have seen the fruits of our efforts already.

In Literacy we focused on our sounds and tricky words work this week. You can practise oi spellings here and oy spellings here. Below are some of the other activities we did with our sounds. We are working hard to use our sounds to spell our words with them and to know what any words we are using mean.

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In our maths work, we continued looking at properties of shapes and started looking at symmetry. We looked at curved and flat faces on shapes and continued to name and identify properties of 2D shapes and 3D objects. Some people found the shape symmetry trickier while others found the pattern symmetry choice trickier.

^{Having a real look at curved and straight faces in our 3D objects alongside some games naming our 3D objects and looking for properties in our 2D shapes.}

This was our last week with Mr Reid from Active Schools and we went out to Holyrood park!
(pictures to come – please do come look back later!)

Finally, a big shout out and thank you to everyone in Primary 2 for working so well from August until this October holiday!

Mrs B and Mrs Aylward look forward to seeing you back in school on the 27th of October!

General Reminders

As we move into the October holidays, winter is fast approaching. We will continue to have open windows in our classroom for airflow so warm clothing in general is a must. We are not requiring that your child changes into a P.E. kit currently but please ensure your child has warm cloths on days we have P.E. and any P.E. kits that are in use may contain a change of clothes as required. Please do consider appropriate foot wear (trainers are better for running than pumps), leg wear (such as joggers over shorts) and tops (long sleeved t-shirts over vests and a warm jumper for taking outside). A good raincoat should always come into school even where the weather doesn’t look like rain is likely.

To go along side this, water bottles should contain WATER, not juice, fizzy drinks or diluting juices. Your child will be using their water bottle to drink during class times and water is the only option for the duration of a school day. Any special drinks cartons may be had at lunch time and milk is offered at milk and snack time for those children on our milk list.

General homework for 12th October 2020

Literacy – There is a task for your child’s tricky words (either a word-writing practise or sentence writing task) and a task for writing and finding oi and oy words.
Please remember to use no more than 2 pages in the jotter for this task – it was wonderful seeing everyone’s work and effort and thank you all for working to stick to using only 2 pages!
Maths – There is a homework for Counting or Comparing, Ordering and Sequencing on Education City to practise direction and movement.
Reading – Reading books will NOT go home this week due to the October break but please check your child’s Active Learn account on Thursday for Top Jobs, an information e-book about some fantastic jobs people can have. We have been talking about jobs as part of Our Community topic so feel free to discuss this book or any job questions they have with them!