Category: Primary 1/ 2 Blog

As this is both a short week and Maths Week, P2’s homework will focus on Maths tasks this week. There are some tasks on Education City, under the Homework tab. Please attempt to complete at least any 2 of these by this Thursday.
We have begun to review shape and the homework tasks are linked to this. If you have any issues accessing or completing the work please let me know.

You should also have ‘Aaaarrgghh Spider!‘ assigned on Active Learn to read and discuss with your child. We were starting to role play as different characters to answer questions as the character we chose while in class this afternoon.

We are still awaiting several homework folders to come back to begin to send the homework folders back and forth and we hope to begin this from next Monday, the 28th of September. Please do keep sending these back as you find them.
We are currently working with some whole class reading but in advance of group reading books, please sign up for a free account on Oxford Owls.

In general, please do check the blog on Mondays for homework information especially where we will be easing into homework and what this will involve. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me via the school office.

Regards,
Mrs Aylward

This week in our Maths we were looking at doubling and we got to practise with some Education City games on the iPads for a short spell. We enjoyed seeing the Doubles Rap video again and we worked well to identify, match and create our own doubles this week!

In Literacy we have been looking at sounds and some of our letter formation to ensure what we write is clear. We have been working to remember to use finger spaces between words too. In our sounds, we have been working to read words in our games with our target sounds of ou and ow this week. We started to look over some tricky words too!

In our social studies topic, Our Community, we continued to look at places in our local community. We thought about the places we saw on our walk and what they are used for. We also thought about places in our neighbourhood that we didn’t see on the walk but that we know about. We are continuing to look at why we might have certain places in our local area, what they are used for and if we have been there before or not at all. Using what we knew and remembered about all these sorts of places we have started to make a super collage of these places in our classroom!

Our learning power work continues in Health and Wellbeing and we have had a real think about what
Curiosity (“I wonder…”),
Creativity (“What if I do it this different way…?”),
Collaboration (“This will be easier if we do it together!”),
Resilience (“I can get better if I keep practising!”, “Maybe it can be my go next time…”),
Reflection (“I am proud of this thing I did because...”)
and Independence (“I can get on with this myself!“)
look like over the last few weeks. We have started our display on these powerful tools for our learning and we will continue to think about, build our understanding of and reflect on these as we move on through the year.

We continue to look at our Ball Skills in P.E. this week. We have enjoyed working on our passing skills with both our feet and our hands and Mr Reid was introducing us to some tennis skills too!

We continue to look at some dance-a-longs for while we are waiting to wash our hands and Primary 2 wanted to share this one for this week!

Next week is Maths Week, so please look forward to seeing what we are up to! Please do check the blog on Tuesday that week for homework as it will be our first week of any official homework!

Hello all! A few updates delayed this post to today so thank you for your patience! To start with, homework will begin the week beginning the 21st September which is next week!
Next week is also Maths Week and a shorter school week, so our homework will be focused on Maths and Numeracy activities to start with.
Everyone should have their logins for Education City and Active Learn now. Please do check to see if you have log in to both sites. Let me know if you haven’t seen the log-in sheets. Your child’s log ins are attached to log-in guidance sheets for Education City and Active Learn which went home for most people last week or before.
If you still have your homework folder from Primary 1, please do send these in with your child to prepare for additional homework activities over the coming weeks. Each folder returned will earn your child House Points!

Last Week in Review

Our Community walk was one of our highlight of the week! We went on a ‘places’ hunt along the Royal Mile, identifying buildings and useful places or things around us such as post boxes, bus stops and different types of shops and buildings.

We have thought about and discussed jobs and places around us in our neighbourhood and will be looking more at mapping in the coming weeks.

In our Health and Wellbeing work we have continued looking at the power of kindness and ways we can ‘fill our buckets’ like in the story ‘Have you Filled a Bucket Today?‘ and our Happiness Wall continues to grow!

We have also been voting for roles in the school! Well done to everyone for voting and to everyone who went for a role as a representative for Art, Health and Wellbeing, ECO or Pupil Council! Congratulations to Elishka, Frankie, Neki and Tendai for being elected and to Maryam, Amelia, Thomas and Hasan for being their deputes!

In Maths we are continuing to focus on revision. We’ve been looking at adding, counting on and ordering and sequencing this week. You may want to look at https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering for some practise with ordering numbers or to practise spotting the patterns in number sequences.

We have some Classwork on Education City with a focus on addition and number bonds games as an other options for games your child might like to play.

In Literacy we are continue to play literacy games with our initial sounds and are revising some of our digraph sounds. Phonics Pop is also a good game for sound recognition for a broader range of sounds that can also be played for free.We had a look at the ai and ay sounds through games this week and you may wish to explore some of the free games on Galactic Phonics for digraph sounds your child already knows.

We started to read Who’s Our New Teacher on Active Learn, guessing at (predicting) what we think might happen before we read the story. This week we have been looking for the clues in the story about the new teacher since we have read the story! Please do feel free to read this or Class Two at the Zoo together, talking about the pictures and what has happened in the story!

Please look forward to seeing what we have been up to this week!