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Welcome back after the holidays, I hope you all had a good break, the children sounded like they had!

I can’t believe this is the final term in P1 already – just 11 weeks left!

We are going to continue Fairyland for a couple of weeks and then move onto another topic this will be either Our Senses or People Who Help Us.

Homework this week is only reading and the associated words. Next week I will be continuing with sounds  – revising the sounds which consist of two letters. These sounds can be confusing as there are other ways of writing them. We will continuing to learn common words which will help with reading and writing – please help your child learn these.

Please remember to return their PE kit if they have not already done so. PE will still be on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

It is nearly the Easter holidays 🙂  P7 have had such a busy term so I wish you all a happy and restful holiday in preparation for the last term of their primary schooling – which will also be really, really busy.

mi:SPACE is almost complete – I have anticipated a parent drop in where pupils could show off their inspirational learning space but this may need to be the first or second week back.

Pupils have a maths sheet with 20 questions to complete in their green jotter and a creative, personal info sheet to complete for their profiles – details below.

P7 HOMEWORK

This week we have been working on your pupil profiles and I would like you to include some information about your life out with school.  I would like an A4 sheet that can either be typed out and printed – or emailed to me and I will print it for you.  You could include what you like doing outside school, what you are proud of, achievements and successes, personal goals for clubs you do, events you are working towards etc.  You should produce quality work of both text and pictures/photos and detail at least 3 things – why you have included it,  achievements/goals – how you got to that stage, how you will progress etc.  This helps to build a rounded profile of you because we know about all the school successes that you have.

Due 30/3/18 (along with the maths work done in your jotter)

We would appreciate if all parents would fill out the short survey in relation to school communication,

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/2MTKSJ6

Thanks

We are continuing with our Fairy Tale topic which the children seem to be really enjoying.

Gymnastics on Monday is being thoroughly embraced by all. They are all having a go at the trickier things which is good to see.

French is on Thursday with Margaux.

Homework

Reading: See book bags for relevant reading and key words for their reading book. I am continuing to send home a small list of the common words for them to learn to read and write.

Numeracy: We have started learning about the number names – how to read them and write them. Homework sheet in their book bags.

Sounds: We are continuing with the consonant blends.

We will have PE again on Thursday morning.

Date for your diary!

P1 and P2 hope to share some of their learning with you, the parents, on the afternoon of Thursday 30th March. Time TBC but will most likely be from 2pm onwards.

Events:

Monday 27th – Gymnastics, the children loved the gymnastics session last week so we will be building on their learning this week.

Wednesday 1st March – Photographer in school, class photos will be taken so please can all children wear school uniform.

Thursday 2nd March – World Book Day – to celebrate this we are doing a week of ‘drop everything and read’! If children would like to bring a book from home they can or they can use book from school. When a bell rings the whole school will drop everything and read.

Homework

Reading – this will continue as normal for red and yellow groups. Blue group will have reading in a different form, please encourage your child to do the reading required by themselves so that are recognising the need to apply what they have learnt.

Numeracy – we have been working on ‘doubles within 10’ please help your child to recognise these and recall the facts eg 1+1 = 2

Sounds – we are continuing to introduce consonant blends at the start of words. It is important to revisit their other sounds regularly and to continue to spell simple words eg. sat, mat, pit, fish.

Topic

You may have heard that we have had a visit from a sad dragon! We are starting a topic called ‘Fairyland’ this is introduced by the dragon that writes a letter to the children asking them to help him because children have stopped reading fairy tales and Fairyland has disappeared. We are working with P2 on this topic and will cover a lot of language work through this topic. In order to help with this topic please could children collect junk, eg. boxes of different sizes (not too big!), kitchen roll tubes (not toilet roll tubes), tubs etc., for us to use to create things for ‘Fairyland’ Also if you have any plastic takeaway tubs please could you send these in.

Many thanks,

Lisa Cumming