30.03.20 – 03.04.20 Well done everyone for making it through two weeks of learning from home. Don’t worry if it hasn’t all been smooth sailing – it certainly hasn’t for us! We are all getting used to a new way of working and living together that is so far from our norm. Thank you toContinue reading “P1 Home Learning”
Author Archives: Mrs Thirgood
Easter Egg Decorating
Thank you to everyone who took part in our egg decorating competition. We had entries from children across the school with an amazing amount of creativity on display. Click on the following link to see all of the entries and our winners… Easter Egg Entries
P1 Home Learning – Week 1 Catch Up
Hi all, We hope you are finding the daily emails useful and easy to follow. Here are the links to the documents that we sent you last week – in case you would like to refer back to them. Generally, each week follows the same pattern and so it should, hopefully, be easier to anticipateContinue reading “P1 Home Learning – Week 1 Catch Up”
Phonics and Handwriting
As part of learning to read and spell, it is important learn our sounds. They give us the necessary building blocks for everything else. It can be a bit daunting at first, so P1 have put together a handy guide to the first 26 initial sounds. Some sounds are stretchy. This means you can keepContinue reading “Phonics and Handwriting”
Primary 1 Home Learning
Please find below the home learning grids for Primary 1. They will be issued on the first Monday of each month.
A Guide to Reading
At school, we often issue the same book for the whole week, which can seem odd. This is partly to allow time for lots of reading practice but there is also a lot of other discussion that happens in our reading groups on a daily basis. For adults, it can sometimes be frustrating to helpContinue reading “A Guide to Reading”
A Week in P1
Much of our learning in P1 happens through interactions, conversations and play. We try to avoid having the children sitting in one place for a long period of time – a general rule of thumb is 1 minute of listening for every year of their age, i.e. 5 or 6 minutes at a time! HereContinue reading “A Week in P1”
A Week in P1
Much of our learning in P1 happens through interactions, conversations and play. We try to avoid having the children sitting in one place for a long period of time – a general rule of thumb is 1 minute of listening for every year of their age, i.e. 5 or 6 minutes at a time! HereContinue reading “A Week in P1”
P1 Home Learning
Good morning all, Here you will a find a copy of all the planning documents we printed and placed into your home learning bags. With only two weeks left of this term, we have already covered a huge amount of the intended learning on the ‘Term Overview’. P1 Term 3 Overview P1 Home Learning ActivitiesContinue reading “P1 Home Learning”
April Update
By Cillian & Max Some of our beanstalks have grown really tall. We have been measuring them and recording the different heights. Sadly, some of them snapped when we repotted them into bigger pots and some of them didn’t grow at all! We have learnt that, although plants need water, too much water will causeContinue reading “April Update”
