Loanhead Primary will be gratefully receiving donations for Womens Aid, for our Harvest collection. They are a wonderful charity who are always truly grateful for everything we can give. This year we are looking for donations such as:
Please can all donations be brought to school by Friday 13th October.
Thank you
Thanks to those parents who completed our survey about future camp options for P5 and P7. We would like as many P1-4 parents to complete it as possible to ensure we have a full view of responses.
We are only asking P1-4 parents to complete the survey because current P5-7 pupils already have their camp options organised.
The survey is very short 🙂 please use the link below to complete it before 4.10.23.
Hi all,
We had a wonderful trip to the library on Friday and the children had a great time picking out a book to bring back to class.
🧥 Please ensure your child comes to school with a jacket and suitable outdoor shoes for outside breaks.
P.E – The class have gym on Tuesday and Wednesday with Ms Simpson.
Phonics – This week we will be learning the sounds m and d. Please complete these two sound sheets in the phonics home learning booklet for Friday.
Reading
Please continue to support your child to learn their key words and read every night. Children cannot progress onto books with words until they know all of their key words. Reading to be completed will be written in your child’s yellow diary daily. Apologies that all children had the same book for the week, we had a very, very busy week! Book-bags should be brought to school everyday for reading.
Other info
Learning Trios will take place on Friday 6th and Wednesday 11th October. Appointments will be handed out on Monday (2nd). If you are unable to make your appointment, please get in touch with the school office to discuss this.
🚜 P1/2 will be performing their Harvest assembly on Thursday 12th October at 2:30pm, for parents/carers. Please note, due to space we can only accommodate two adults per child (this includes if you have a child in each class).
🥫 Harvest donations for Women’s Aid are being collected until Friday 13th October. They can be brought in by your child or dropped off at the school office.
Please can you provide a photo of your family, pets etc this will help make our home corner more meaningful.
Wednesday 25th October – P1 Trip to Rosslyn Chapel.
🎄 Christmas Card designs were sent home on Friday. Please see the post below for more information about how to order.
Thank you,
Miss Waller and Mrs Beattie
🌡️ The weather is starting to change and the temperatures are starting to drop. Please ensure your child comes to school with a jacket and suitable outdoor shoes for outside breaks.
We have a new teacher who joined us in P1 last week, Mrs Addie, and she will be in class again this week too. Mrs Beattie is still supporting P1 when needed.
P.E – The class have gym on Tuesday and Wednesday with Ms Simpson.
Phonics – This week we will be learning the sounds h and r. Please complete these two sound sheets in the phonics home learning booklet for Friday.
Reading
Please continue to support your child to learn their key words and read every night. Children will have a book Mon-Tues and then a new book Wed – Thurs. Book-bags should be brought to school everyday for reading.
Maths/Number
We are continuing to learn about 2D and 3D shapes. This week is Maths Week, so we will be learning about how we use maths in real life.
Other info
📚 Primary 1 are going on their first trip to the library on Friday. We will be having a story read to us and get the chance to all pick out a book to have in class. It will be very exciting!
📷 Please can you provide a photo of your family, pets etc this will help make our home corner more meaningful.
🚌 We are also looking for a helper for our trip to Rosslyn Chapel. This would be on Wednesday 25th October, leaving school around 9:10/15am and returning before 12pm. Please email the school office or speak to one of us, if you would be happy to volunteer.
Letters for Learning Trios will be given out on Monday (25th), please fill in and return ASAP.
Thank you,
Miss Waller and Mrs Beattie
Hi all,
We hope you have had an enjoyable and restful long weekend.
P.E – The class have gym on Tuesday and Wednesday with Ms Simpson.
Phonics – Last week, we started to focus on segmenting and blending words using our first set of sounds (s.a.t.i.p.n). This week we will be learning the sounds c/k and e. Please complete these two sound sheets in the phonics home learning booklet for Friday.
Reading
Please continue to support your child to learn their key words and read every night. This week all children will have the same book Tues – Fri.
Maths/Number
We have been learning all about 2D shapes and will be moving on to learn about 3D shapes. We will continue to do lots of counting to 20 and finding the number before/after. Children will also be learning to use the part/whole model with numbers to 10. For example, 5 can be broken apart as 5 and 0, 4 and 1, 3 and 2.
Other info
Please can you provide a photo of your family, pets etc this will help make our home corner more meaningful.
NO TOYS TO BE BROUGHT IN TO SCHOOL
Letters for SeeSaw and Roslin trip should be returned ASAP. We are also looking for a helper for our trip to Rosslyn Chapel. This would be on Wednesday 25th October, leaving school around 9:10/15am and returning before 12pm. Please email the school office or speak to one of us, if you would be happy to volunteer.
P1/2 will be starting to think about their Harvest assembly performance later this week and some children may come home with lines to learn. Please support your child to say their lines with a loud and clear voice.
📷 School photos are on Thursday 21st September.
Thank you for your continued support,
Miss Waller and Mrs Beattie
We hope that everyone is enjoying the last of our summer, we love Autumn so look forward to lots of autumnal adventures this term 🍂.
🔤 Phonics – This week we are not learning any new sounds. We have learned the sounds s,a,t,p,i,n and are having a focus on segmenting and blending words using magnetic boards as well as trying to write them. There are lots of words you can make with the first 6 sounds e.g. pin, sat, tin, nip, tan, sin, tap etc. In class we will be saying the words out slowly and seeing if we can hear the 3 sounds in them then making or writing them.
We are also identifying initial sounds e.g. what sound can you hear first in the word tap? These skills are tricky and and practise at home would be amazing. We have provided some green sound cards for you to use.
We play some games on the SMARTboard to enhance our learning, if you wish to use these at home the links are here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2yf4j/articles/z4ycrj6
📖 Reading
Please continue to support your child to learn their key words and read every night. we will have a book for mon/Tues and a new one for wed/Thurs.
🧮 Maths/Number
We are continuing to count to 20, forwards and back. We are also sequencing and ordering numbers so children can gain an understanding of quantity and where a number is placed on a number line. We love using this game in class
We are also discussing which numbers come before, after and between numbers within 20 and learning to write numbers correctly.
⭐Other info
Please can you provide a photo of your family, pets etc (please see previous post) this will help make our home corner more meaningful.
We are also looking for junk for junk modelling.
❕ NO TOYS TO BE BROUGHT IN TO SCHOOL
PLEASE CAN CHILDREN ALL HAVE A CHANGE OF SHOES IN SCHOOL
📄 Letters for SeeSaw and Roslin trip should be returned asap.
Thanks
Mrs Beattie and Miss Waller
📷In P1 we aim to make our learning environment a place that children feel safe and secure. We would like to include some photos around our space that our children can use in discussions etc. If possible, please could you send in a couple of photos, if you only have digitals feel free to email them to the school and we can print them out.
We are looking for:
👪 Family photos
🏠 A photo of your home (from the outside)
🐱Photo of pets
Many thanks in advance 🙂
Mrs Beattie and Miss Waller
This week in Primary 1 we will be continuing our learning about The Lighthouse keepers lunch and Zones of Regulation. 😊
Polite reminders:
✏ In Literacy we will finish set 1 sounds by learning “p” and “n”. Once the children learn these sounds we can begin to try blending CVC words from our sounds (s,a,t,i,p,n = sit, nip, sat, tap, pit and so many more) You will receive some of these sounds on cards to cut out and build words with at home. Magnetic words or bathtime alphabets etc are all fun ways to support at home.
Click this link to practise some phonics songs and actions
Please continue to home learning booklet – 2 pages each week. trace the sound and write on your own to the end and then colour the picture. Fabulous work last week!
Key words – you have been given key words on red card. These should be cut out and popped in a box to be used both in school and home. These are stage 1 key words (mum, dad, a, the, Biff, Chip, Kipper, and, Floppy) and must be known at sight before the children can move from wordless books. Mrs Beattie and Miss Waller will be looking at key words knowledge this week with groups.
📗 Continue to read each day with your child, this is so so important.
🔢 In Numeracy and Maths we are continuing our counting to 20 and linking numeral to number, numbers before and after and in between as well as counting backwards. We will also be looking at shape naming and shapes in the world around us.
What a fun filled week of learning!
