📚 As part of World Book Day, the children always love to be given their book token in school. This year I have been given a digital book token for parents/carers to save onto their phones and use in participating stores. The children can get one of the £1 books using this token or they can get money off the other World Book Day books. This can be used until March 28th.
Enjoy 🙂 and remember to send in your extreme reading photos
Mrs Hinton
Hopefully our exciting news about our Zoo trip has made it home to you! P3 are very excited and looking forward to a trip at long last. Can I ask that all expenses are paid by Monday the 10th of June to allow us time to finalise staffing and groups.
Progress reports will be sent home on Wednesday of this week so you can share all the fantastic learning experiences p3 have had this year with your child. Also just a quick reminder that this Thursday (6.6.19) is our final parent drop in session. If you have any questions or concerns about your child’s learning feel free to pop along for a quick chat. Additionally parents are invited to a short meeting at 4:45pm on Thursday after the drop in to share their thoughts and help us as a staff work and improve our vision for Loanhead Primary School. We would really appreciate your input and feedback.
Literacy
This weeks spelling sound is ‘ie’ as ‘ee’ which can be found in ‘shield and thief’. Please encourage children to practise these at home.
This week the class homework is focusing on verbs, nouns and adjectives. Using old magazines, newspapers and comics children should hunt for verbs, nouns and adjectives and stick them in the correct column. If your child requires a glue stick or some magazines to do this just let me know.
Reading
Hedgehogs – Anne Fine: The Diary of a Killer Cat
Tuesday – Chapter 2
Wednesday –Chapter 4 + 5
Thursday –Chapter 6
Friday – Chapter 7
Pandas – Shelley Holmes: Ace Detective
Tuesday –Chapter 1 and 2
Wednesday –Chapter 3 and 4
Thursday- Chapter 5 and 6
Friday – Chapter 7
Orangutans – The Spooks
Tuesday –Chapter 1
Wednesday –Chapter 2
Thursday- Chapter 3
Friday – Chapter 4
Tigers – Storm Castle
Tuesday –p1-8
Wednesday –p8-16
Thursday- p16-24
Friday – p24-32
Polar Bears – Red Planet
Tuesday – p1-8
Wednesday – p8-16
Thursday- p17-24
Friday – p25-32
Miss Ramsay and Miss Dickson
As you know Black Diamond came into school to record our pupils performing their Scots poems. They have now went live on the internet and thought you might want to hear. We are all so proud!
They can be found at:
https://soundcloud.com/user-40296132/sets/scots-drivetime-sessions
Hi all,
Big apology for homework not having been posted here last week. After being very ill all week it completely slipped my mind and I hope it didn’t throw too many people.
The list we will be working from this week is ‘ph’. In class we have been working on how to make spelling more enjoyable as I found a lot of the kids were becoming quite disengaged so I will be sending home a grid containing some of the new spelling activities we have been trialing in class. Homework will go out on Tuesday and must be returned by Friday to allow me time to look over it. If occasionally they do need more time, as I know some of the children do attend clubs and have out of school commitments, could you leave me a little note in reading records to let me know and it can be returned on Monday. Can I ask that if your child has lost or misplaced their spelling sheets that you either catch me after school or send a quick note in with your child on Monday so I have time to photocopy new ones.
Hope you all have a lovely week,
Miss Ramsay
Polar Bears
The Vanishing Cream
p1-6 for Tuesday
p6-12 for Wednesday
p12-18 for Thursday
p18-24 for Friday
Tigers
The Treasure Chest
p1-10 for Tuesday
p11- 20 for Wednesday
p20- 32 for Thursday
Orangutans
Flood!
p1-10 for Tuesday
p11-20 for Wednesday
p21 – End for Friday
Pandas
The Finest in the Land
p1-10 for Tuesday
p11-20 for Wednesday
p21- 32 for Thursday
Hedgehogs
Scrapman
Chpt 1 for Tuesday
p10- 21 for Wednesday
p22-p31 for Thursday
p32-end for Friday
Turtles
Snooty Prune
Chpt 1 and 2 for Tuesday
Chpt 3 for Wednesday
p26 – 37 for Thursday
p37 – end Friday
P5 Homework will consist of one last spelling practice and a ‘weight’ activity exercise:
As you are aware our class trip to Scottish National Mining Museum is this Wednesday 20th June 2018. Many thanks for returning all ME2 slips. We will leave school at 9:15am and return at 2:45pm with pupils being dismissed at the normal time of 3:15pm. Can you please ensure pupils come with a packed lunch, snack and wearing a light rain jacket and outdoor shoes as some of our tour is outside. The weather forecast for Wednesday looks like rain but hopefully we will be able to avoid this and enjoy our day.
I will send home a slip detailing this information with pupils on Tuesday afternoon,
Many thanks,
Mrs Watts
P5 Homework will carry on this week as normal:
We have now organised our class trip to the Scottish Mining Museum for Wednesday 20th June 2018 and are really looking forward to this. We are still waiting for 5 ME2 slips to be returned and would really appreciate these before the end of the week.
If there is any parent/carer who would like to help out on the trip next week please let the office know or send a note in with your child and I will give you a ring.
Many thanks,
Mrs Watts
P5 Homework will carry on this week as normal:
We have now organised our class trip to the Scottish Mining Museum for Wednesday 20th June 2018 and are really looking forward to this. Details have been sent home with pupils and ME2 slips should be returned no later than 13.6.18.
Here at Loanhead Primary we are very proud of our pupil’s handwriting and take particular care in our cursive/joined-up handwriting style. We use Letter-join as
the basis of our handwriting policy that covers all the requirements of the Curriculum for Excellence and our Big Writing structure. We begin re teaching letter formation to ensure pupils are correctly forming letters that enable them to join with ease (e.g. Long ladder letters, curly caterpillars etc). We then teach patterns and words and carefully build up pupil knowledge and skill in handwriting.
Handwriting is a basic skill that influences the quality of work throughout the curriculum. At the end of Second Level all pupils should have the ability to produce fluent, legible
and, eventually, speedy joined-up handwriting, and to understand the different forms of handwriting used for different purposes.
We aim to make handwriting an automatic process that does not interfere with creative and mental thinking. As a catalyst to speedy handwriting we encourage parents
and carers to encourage the use of cursive handwriting at home.
