Category Archives: P1

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us for our Stay and Play on Friday, we hope you had a wonderful time. The school office has sent out a link to a Google form, where you can leave feedback about your visit. I would greatly appreciate if you could take some time to fill it out.

P1 are doing a short assembly on Friday (10th March) and you are all welcome to join us.

Lots of letters have been given out, please do bring them back ASAP. 

Homework 

Reading: Children will bring home their book and the reading pages written in their green record should be completed that night. Please remember to help children to learn their key words for each stage, they cannot move onto a new stage until they know all their words.

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.

P.E – Children 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 31st March
• Friday 5th May
• Friday 9th June
• Friday 23rd June

P1 Stay and Play:

• Friday 19th May
• Friday 16th June

Thank you,

Miss Lauren Waller

L.Waller@midlothian.education

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

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

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

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

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 ch, sh and th this week. Please ensure your child completes these worksheets as it so important for them to practise their letter formation when writing new sounds.

Burns poetry: The children will perform their chosen poetry to the class on Tuesday 24th January. 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!

Please ensure that your child brings their book bag to school EVERYDAY, as we will be doing reading everyday. They will be kept in school on a Friday, in order to have new homework ready for the following Monday.

P.E will be on Wednesday with Miss Simpson and Thursday with Mrs Lynch. 

We are moving onto subtraction with 10 and 20 this week. We are looking at using concrete materials to help us (Numicon, cubes etc.), before moving on to using number lines.

Please never hesitate to get in contact, if you need anything.

Miss Lauren Waller

L.Waller@midlothian.education

🎆 Happy New Year! 🎆

I hope you all had a wonderful and restful winter break and it was so lovely to see the children again this week. I am so impressed by how quickly they fell back into routine, it is like they have never been away. Thank you SO much for all of the lovely cards and gifts, it was far too kind and greatly appreciated. 

Just a gentle reminder that children should come to school with indoor and outdoor shoes, along with a suitable jacket for playing outside. P.E  kits should be returned to school for P.E. starting again on Wednesday. 

We have our second health week this coming week and we are learning about  emotions and relationships. 

Homework will go out on Monday and will follow the same pattern as before. 

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. 

Sounds: We are learning y and x this week. The children will only have two phonic worksheets to complete as these will go home on Wednesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child completes these as it so important for them to practise their letter formation when writing new sounds. 

Burns poetry: The children will bring home two poems on Wednesday and they have to choose one to learn for our poetry recital in class. From this, there is a class winner who then performs their chosen poem at an assembly. The children will perform their chosen poetry to the class on Tuesday 24th January. 

Please ensure that your child brings their book bag to school EVERYDAY, as we will be doing reading everyday. They will be kept in school on a Friday, in order to have new homework ready for the following Monday.

P.E will be on Wednesday with Miss Simpson and Thursday with Mrs Lynch. 

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Please never hesitate to get in contact, if you need anything. 

Miss Lauren Waller

L.Waller@midlothian.education