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✏️ P2 News/Info 6.3.23 🎕

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Week Beg 6.3.23

Our spelling pattern is (a_e)

✏️ Spelling words are: ran, hat, scar, came, grape, name, cake, only, old, pavement

Please write the words out twice in pencil and a third time in a coloured pencil/gel pen backwards. IN JOTTERS, Pupils have been shown an example of what to do.

📚 Reading: New books will be given out This week, please follow the same pattern as always, remembering to discuss and ask questions about the text.  In class we have been having a focus on comprehension and words within our books.

🧮Numeracy: We are going to be looking at some division, the outcomes for the next wee while are:

I can partition a collection of up to 30 objects:

– Sharing equally between groups, and determining the number of objects in each share

– Sharing into equal-sized groups, and determining the number of groups they can make.

 💻 Digital – We are not yet sending Chromebooks home but we do have a Google Classroom which we use in class.  The midlothian.education username and passwords which were used last year will continue to be their login details.  If you wish to use a different device from home to explore our Google Classroom at home, feel free to do so 🙂

ALL CHILDREN MUST HAVE INDOOR AND OUTDOOR  SHOES AND A CHANGE OF PE KIT.

🐤 SPRING FLING AND DYNAMIC EARTH LETTERS/PAYMENT TO BE IN ASAP PLEASE.

Thanks 🙂

Primary 2 – 27.2.23

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Week beginning 27.2.23

Reading Homework – As always, there is a new book this week but I will give it out on Thursday but you will have until Monday to hand it in and read each night.  As the books become tricky, it is so important for learners to read every night to build confidence, fluency and vocabulary.

Numeracy – There will be a numeracy sheet handed out on Thurs which will be due on Monday. (Homework will go back to Monday for Fri next week)   This is either on subtraction in 20 (solving the missing number e.g. 12-? = 5 and using a numberline to help) or addition and subtraction in 40 – children can either time themselves to answer them or agree 10/15 mins to be times and see how many they can answer.  The strategy we use is to work with the ones fist then the tens e.g. 34 – 12 would be broken into 4-2 and 3-1 to get 22.

Tues- Wed Schools are closed as it is a Teacher strike

Thursday – Book day but no dressing up.  Instead build a diorama or a character from a potato/lego etc.

PLEASE BRING INDOOR SHOES TO LEAVE IN SCHOOLS AND TO CHANGE INTO WHEN ENTERING THE CLASSROOM

SPRING FLING – Please remember to pop the payment for tickets in an envelope and hand in to teacher or office.

P1 Week Beginning 27.2.23

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Learning Trio target sheets will go home on Thursday.

Homework follows the same cycle of being handed out on Monday and book bags stay in school on Friday for homework to be organised for the following week.

For World Book Day (Thursday 2nd March) children can recreate their favourite book/character/setting etc. in a way of their choosing. For example, they could paint the gruffalo forest on a piece of cardboard or make it 3D with a shoebox!

Reminder: Stay and Play is on Friday 3rd March 9am – 9:50am and it is only one parent per child. Please enter through our classroom door! 

Homework 

Reading: Children will bring home their book and the reading pages written in their green record should be completed that night.

Phonics/Spelling: Children will  bring home their spelling jotter with a new list of words to practise. This should be handed in on Friday. Please remember that it is really important you tell your child the words to be spelt and they do this independently.

We have also had a lot of focus on our handwriting and letter formation. We have been learning little rhymes to help us with our formation, please find these here. Letter-formation-chart

P.E – Children now have P.E. on Monday and Wednesday with Miss Simpson. Please ensure your child brings a P.E kit to change into.

French: Mrs Lynch is teaching French to the class every Thursday.

*We would like to make a P1 Family wall display in the classroom. Please hand in or email me any photos of your child with you all, we would love to make a lovely display in our class. Thank you to those who have brought/sent photos already.*

Dates for the Diary!

P1 Library Visits:

  • Friday 10th March
  • Friday 31st March
  • Friday 5th May
  • Friday 9th June
  • Friday 23rd June

P1 Stay and Play:

  • Friday 3rd March
  • Friday 19th May
  • Friday 16th June

I hope you all had a lovely weekend,

Miss Lauren Waller

L.Waller@midlothian.education

P1 Week Beginning 20.2.23

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Thank you so much to everyone who attended their Learning Trio appointment, it was lovely working with yourselves and your child to create targets for the rest of the academic year. These target sheets will be sent home later on in the week.

Just a gentle reminder that children should only be bringing water in their bottles and any toys should be put into school bags before they come into school or taken home. Thank you.

Homework 

Reading: Children will bring home their book and the reading pages written in their green record should be completed that night.

Phonics/Spelling: Children will be bringing home a spelling jotter on TUESDAY with the instructions on how to complete their spelling homework glued inside. This should be handed in on Friday.

The children have learned all of their P1 sounds, please find the sounds we have learned below.

We have also had a lot of focus on our handwriting and letter formation. We have been learning little rhymes to help us with our formation, please find these here. Letter-formation-chart

P.E – Children now have P.E. on Monday and Wednesday with Miss Simpson. Please ensure your child brings a P.E kit to change into.

French: Mrs Lynch is going to start teaching French to the class every Thursday.

*We would like to make a P1 Family wall display in the classroom. Please hand in or email me any photos of your child with you all, we would love to make a lovely display in our class.*

Dates for the Diary!

P1 Library Visits:

  • Friday 24th February
  • Friday 10th March
  • Friday 31st March
  • Friday 5th May
  • Friday 9th June
  • Friday 23rd June

P1 Stay and Play:

  • Friday 3rd March
  • Friday 19th May
  • Friday 16th June

I hope you all had a lovely, restful February break.

Miss Lauren Waller

L.Waller@midlothian.education

P1 Week Beginning 6.2.23

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Learning Trios take place on Wednesday and Friday – if you need to change your appointment, please call the school office to do so. We will be discussing previous targets and setting new targets. Gentle reminder that each appointment is 15 minutes.

Homework (only reading this week!)

Reading: Children will bring their book in their book bag and the pages to be read will be written in their green reading record. Please sign this to evidence reading has been completed. Some children will come home with a little slip of green words, these words should be learned to support their progress in reading.

P.E – Wednesday with Miss Simpson and Thursday with Mrs Lynch. Lots of children still don’t have a P.E. kit, it is so important all children bring a P.E. kit for these times. The children will be a lot more comfortable for their lesson and they are learning to dress themselves independently.

Maths/Numeracy: We are learning ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd etc) and making amounts up to 10p, using 1p, 2p and 5p coins.

Literacy: We have finished learning all of our P1 sounds and we are now working on writing sentences independently.

Topic: We have been learning about the seasons, especially Winter, and we are going to start our new topic ‘Weather’.

*We would like to make a P1 Family wall display in the classroom. Please hand in or email me any photos of your child with you all, we would love to make a lovely display in our class.*

Dates for the Diary!

P1 Library Visits:

  • Friday 24th February
  • Friday 10th March
  • Friday 31st March
  • Friday 5th May
  • Friday 9th June
  • Friday 23rd June

P1 Stay and Play:

  • Friday 3rd March
  • Friday 19th May
  • Friday 16th June

Please note the school will finish for the February holiday on Friday 10th February and pupils resume on Monday 20th February at 8:50am. 

Miss Lauren Waller

L.Waller@midlothian.education

P2 News and Info 23.1.22

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Week Beginning: 23.1.22

Please note that the school is closed on Thursday

Reading Homework as usual every night.

SCOTS POEMS – To be learned for Tuesday where our buddies will be assessing them.  On Wednesday we will be sharing them with the class to choose our winner. p2 poems

High Frequency Words – continue to learn these at home.  Most children can confidently read them now but are not transferring this knowledge into their writing.

Nurture take home task on Safety – detailed email was sent out on Friday, exemplar templates have been sent home if you wish to use them.

Parent consultation letters to be returned for Wednesday.

As part of our Nurture plans in P2, the class have asked to update our safe space and have asked for plants, fairy lights, cushions, a canopy, a fibre optic lamp J a fluffy rug – if you have any of these that you would like to donate we would be so grateful.

They have also said they feel unsafe in the bathrooms and would like music or a radio played.  If anyone has a battery operated DAB radio that we could have then we would love to try it and see if it helps us.

P1 Week Beginning 23.1.23

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Learning Trio letters were sent home on Friday, please fill in and return to school ASAP. Thank you.

On Monday, the children will also be bringing home a Nurture task. Please see the post below for more information.

Homework

Reading: Children will bring their book in their book bag and the pages to be read will be written in their green reading record. Please sign this to evidence reading has been completed. Some children will come home with a little slip of green words, these words should be learned to support their progress in reading.

Sounds: We are learning qu, ou, and oi this week.

Burns poetry: The children will perform their chosen poetry to the class on Tuesday. Please encourage your child to learn their poem with lots of enthusiasm! Those who recite their poem in class will be considered to be in the poetry assembly – there is only one child per class! I can’t wait to hear them all.

P.E – Wednesday with Miss Simpson.

Reminder: School will be closed on Thursday due to strike action. 

Important Dates!

P1 Library Visits – We are looking for two parent helpers to walk down with us to the library. All visits are on a Friday and we will be leaving at 10am, please email me if you are free and would like to join us on any of the following dates.

  • Friday 24th February
  • Friday 10th March
  • Friday 31st March
  • Friday 5th May
  • Friday 9th June
  • Friday 23rd June

P1 Stay and Play – All dates are a Friday and it will be from 9am until 9:50am. Entry will be through the classroom door and we ask that it is only one adult per child.

  • Friday 3rd March
  • Friday 19th May
  • Friday 16th June

P1 are looking for some things to build up our loose parts area. We are looking for curtain rings, clean glass jars, kitchen roll tubes, buttons and feathers. Loose parts are  wonderful for fostering children’s imagination and creativity. Please see the article below if you would like more information on loose parts! https://www.playscotland.org/resources/print/Play-Scotland-Loose-Parts-Leaflet.pdf?plsctml_id=10934

I hope you have all had a lovely weekend.

Miss Lauren Waller

L.Waller@midlothian.education