Monthly Archives: October 2021

Dear Parents and Carers,

This week:

Reading – please see reading book for homework.

Spelling – please see spelling jotter for the pattern or sound they are learning.

P.E. is as usual on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon.

On Monday, as part of the Midlothian Science Festival, we are taking part in a live session about Edinburgh Zoo.

Wednesday and Thursday is Class photo day. Please make sure your child is in school uniform. If it is a P.E. day then please can you send a school sweatshirt / jumper to be worn for the photo.

Wednesday we have Mandarin as normal.

Children have been given a shield to decorate in their house colours, if they are taking part in this competition it must be returned by Friday.

Christmas Cards and money are due back on Friday 15^th October.

Many thanks,

Lisa Cumming

l.cumming@midlothian.education

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Hi all,

 PE  – Monday and Wednesday – please come to school dressed for PE outdoors. Remember to bring a water bottle for hydration. 

 Bikeability – Group 1 have their next session on Monday 11th October.  These are: LC , CR, LBar, SW, EvT, AR, IG, JM and CG.

📷  P7 CLASS PHOTO – Wednesday 13th

🌾 HARVEST COLLECTION – P1 are collecting non perishable items to donate to Women’s Aid – if you are able to donate anything at all, please send these items in ASAP – thank you SO much!

PEER MEDIATION TRAINING – P7 will be trained to be peer mediators during sessions run by Tara Larkin, every Tuesday. Once trained, children can volunteer to take turns to be peer mediators in the playground – this means they can help to sort out any disputes between younger pupils.

Homework :

Spelling –  Please hand in completed work on Friday. Please ensure all writing is neat.

 Maths – Sumdog maths challenge – Starts Monday

Reading – Can every child please have a personal reading text in school for such times when children may read quietly.

Recent News

IT –  Midlothian Council are in the process of migrating our IT systems to Google. In a few months time, we hope that each pupil will get their own device to use ( Chromebook). Children now have an ‘@midlothian.education‘ email address and new log-in details.

We have also successfully migrated into our new Google Classroom and very soon, I’d like to share some photo albums of recent events with you there.

My new email address :

s.brunt@midlothian.education

⛱️HOLIDAY REMINDER – School closes for the October break on Friday 15th at 12:25pm. Pupils resume on Tuesday 26th October and that first week back will be a whole school Health Week ( focus on food/ healthy lifestyles).

That’s all for now,

Thank you,

Miss Brunt

Hello,

I hope everyone is having a good week so far.

This week we are looking at the sound ‘qu’ and the spelling words are:

on     but     plum     quick     quiz

queen     squid     to     do     squirrel

Please could reading books and yellow reading records come into school Monday-Thursdays as we do reading daily in class. Please could children come with a waterproof jacket every day now that the weather is turning colder and wetter.

Many thanks,

Mrs Lynch

Dear Parents and Carers,

This week:

Reading – please see reading book for homework.

Spelling – please see spelling jotter for the pattern or sound they are learning.

P.E. is as usual on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon.

On Tuesday we are taking part in an online STEM event which will hopefully be really interesting for the children.

Wednesday we have Mandarin as normal.

This week we will be working on our Christmas cards that we do every year, the children will bring the form home this week for you to decide if you want to order them.

Many thanks,

Lisa Cumming

l.cumming@midlothian.education

This week your child will come home with a reading book on Monday.  These books will vary in length and words.  Please do not worry.  We run homework from Monday-Friday.

We are also consolidating addition in 10 so there is a numeracy sheet for this week as well.

Suggested home learning:

Monday: First half of the book – reading the pictures to tell an extended story.  Asking some questions to check understanding on each page.  Go over key words

Tuesday: Second half of book and Key words

Wednesday – Key words and number sheet

Thursday  – Whole book and a game of dominos or some mental maths (5 minutes)

(We are moving onto stage 2 key words)

Please return SeeSaw permission slips so I can get the log in details out this week.

It is really helpful for pupils to have book bags.  Key words and books should go home every night and be in school each day Monday-fri

Currently I am trying to post info on the website (loanhead.mgfl.net under P1) please check there for info about what we are up to J

Thanks

Mrs H