Monthly Archives: September 2018

In-service Days

Just to remind parents that School and Early Learning and Childcare Centre ( Nursery) are closed on Monday 17th September and Tuesday 18th September for In-service training.

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you all again on Wednesday 🙂

Our Secret Garden Helper

This week everyone has been trying to work out who our Secret Garden Helper is.

Primary 1 have been writing letters to the Mystery Visitor who painted the garden furniture and repaired the bird table/house in the school garden.   They all did a super job.  Have a look out for their writing in school.

P1 Class Blog

The Primary 1 pupils are settling really well in to their classroom. We have been working lots over the past couple of week on rules, routines, expectations and getting to know each other. This week we started learning on our number and phonics work. Many pupils are able to count forward to 20 and beyond. We are learning to form the numbers correctly, sequence them in the correct order and count on from a given number. We have also been doing a little work on counting backwards.  The phonics we have introduced and are learning are: s, a, t, i and p.  If you see these letters ask your child what the Sound is and what Jolly Phonics action goes with it.  Many pupils are grasping the phonics quickly. Great work….keep it up!

We have two term Topics during this term: Mini beasts and Transport. At present we are working on Mini Beasts. It appears that the children are really enjoying it as they are getting to explore in our newly refurbished school garden. On Thursday we went to the Cameron Youth Centre garden to explore and investigate with the P1/2 pupils. We used magnifying glasses and found a wide variety of mini beasts, including: ladybirds, slugs, snails, flies, wasps, spiders, wood lice, moths and earwigs.

Super lining up P1……keep up the great work!

 

P6 class blog

Welcome back! I hope you have enjoyed your summer break.

P6 have settled well and worked hard to follow the school rules.

The children had a very productive first week – we focused on team building and we spoke what welcoming and effective listening looks like and sounds like. This will help us to build stronger and more secure relationships.

We have started numeracy and literacy assessments to ensure that we know what the children need to learn in order to make progress.

Homework will start on Week 3, Tuesday 4th September.

Be assured that I will do my best to make this school year an enjoyable time for your child, but also a time filled with real learning.  It will be a year of magical wonder and amazing growth.