Category: Primary 1 Blog

Reports

This week you will receive your child’s school report. Below are some explanations of words and phrases which may helpful.

• Pure sounds – Saying the letter sound without an ‘uh’ sound at the end e.g. M is ‘mmm’ not ‘muh’. To see a video explaining pure letter sounds click here.
• Red words – Also known as tricky words, sight words or common words. Read, Write, Inc, the new literacy programme we are following, call words which cannot be sounded out red words. I, the, was and want, are all examples. To see more examples, click here. To watch Miss Copeland’s flash card video, click here.
• CVC words – 3 letter words that follow a consonant, vowel, consonant sequence such as cat, dog, pig.
• Consonant digraphs – When two consonants together make a new sound e.g. ch, th, sh.
• Vowel digraphs – When two vowels together make a new sound e.g. oo, ee, ai.
• Letter formation – How to write letters. Learning to write these in a particular way now will support pupils when learning to join letters together in future years. Differing letter size is important too. video for tall, video for small, video for fall letters.
• Dienes or Dienes blocks – A maths resource, also known as Base 10 cubes. Click here for more information.

• Combining and partitioning – Numbers can be partitioned or separated e.g. 321 is made up of 300 and 20 and 1. Combining is when you add these together e.g. 400 and 20 and 3 is 423. Click here for more information

Queen’s Jubilee Party

Thank you to everyone who attended our class party. It was lovely to finally be able to invite you into our learning space. We hope you had fun!

Butterflies

We have now released our butterflies. The pupils have enjoyed watching them grow and developing their curiosity in the natural world.

Youth Music Initiative

This week we welcomed Vikki Fairgrieve, our YMI tutor to our class. We had lots of fun learning new songs and actions. She will visit every Monday afternoon.

Maths – Direction

This week we will be introducing Bee-Bots to the class to support coding/programming language and direction learning.
Have a go at home using this interactive website.

You can download a FREE Bee-Bot app on both android and apple

• Andoid BeeBot App
• Apple BeeBot App

FREE trial shinty sessions

During Health Week, Primary 1 were kindly given a shinty taster session from a coach from the Camanachd Dhùn-Èideann youth shinty club.
Staff were amazed at how well Primary 1 took to the sport.
Please see the flier below – try out for FREE for one month!

Health Week Fun

Wow! This week we have done so many exciting things from learning new dances like Bollywood, Hula and Ukrainian Hopak, to trying out new sports like yoga and shinty, while also practising those skills needed for sports day! We have also been learning how to keep our bodies and minds healthy too.

Sports Day

We would like to say a HUGE thank you to Mr Madine for running sports day this year. We hope all the pupils and parents enjoyed it. Not all pupils in our school have permission to be photographed and due to the team nature of sports day, this became a challenge (!), so below is just a tiny snippet of all of the fun that happened today!

Caterpillars

For a more interactive approach to life cycles, we ordered caterpillars for our classroom from Insect Lore.
We have been observing our caterpillars closely, watching them eating their food and getting bigger. A few of the caterpillars have now started their transformation into a chrysalis. Very exciting!

Money

Primary 1 have been learning about all of the different ways you can pay for items such as with coins, paper money, cards and now even with your phone. We are learning to identify coins through their size, shape and colour, and we are beginning to understand that each coin has a different value. Lots of shops have been moving towards becoming ‘cash-less’ and this has sped up since the pandemic. Dust off those coins and have a play at home!

Have a go at playing these games at home

Sort, order and count the coins

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game

Use coins to pay for items

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

Lots of games on Natwest’s My Money Sense page

Term 3 Overview

To see what we will be covering this term, please click the file below