P1/2 Class Newsletter – Term 3, 2017
Welcome back to term 3 and a very Happy New Year to you all! Hopefully you are
enjoying being back into routines again after the craziness of Christmas.
Visiting Teachers
This term, our class will have PE with Mrs Gomez on Tuesdays and Thursdays. P.E. will
be first thing on a Thursday so I will encourage the children to take their gym bags
home on a Wednesday so they can come to school partly prepared for P.E. (as they did
last term). Mrs Weir will take the children for Religious and Moral Education on
Thursdays.
For this week only, PE will be on Tuesday 17th and Friday 20th (first thing).
Topic
For the first few weeks we will be learning about Scotland. This will culminate in our
whole school Scottish Week. We have already looked at the map of Scotland and located
our capital city along with some landmarks of interest. The children are hoping to watch
the movie Brave during Scottish Week as we found out that the Calanais Standing
Stones in the Isle of Lewis were the inspiration for the stone circle in Brave. As this is
a PG movie I do need your permission so if you are not happy for your child to watch
this movie please complete and return the form at the end of this newsletter no later
than Friday 20th January 2017.
For the remainder of the term P1s will work with Mrs Lawson and the other P1 class on
a Granny’s Attic topic and the P2s will work together with the other P2 class on a Design
and Technology Topic – Our Street. This means that each year group will have the
opportunity to work together regularly.
Maths and Language Work
In Language we will finish working on initial sounds in P1 before introducing some
phonemes. We will also focus on 3 letter words that the children can build with all of
the sounds that they have learned (cvc words).
In P2 we will be covering some blends (like bl, fl, cr, gr) as we continue with our work on
phonemes. We will spend some time comparing phonemes that look different but make
the same sound and therefore belong to the same ‘families’ e.g. ou and ow.
Our Big Writing session will now be on a Thursday.
Reading will take place on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Our pattern
of working will be:
Mon
Tues
Wed
Thurs
P1
New book
Follow-up activity
New book
Follow-up activity
P2
Follow-up activity
New book
Follow-up activity
New Book
In Maths P1 are concentrating on securing the number bonds to 10 and P2 are finishing
off addition to 20 before moving on to subtraction to 20. We will also be covering
aspects of Time, Money, Symmetry and Information Handling over the course of the
term.
Wider Achievements
Don’t forget to let me know of any achievements your child has made out of school, no
matter how big or small.
Our Class Assembly
We are very excited to be hosting our class assembly on Wed 8th February at 2.30pm.
The class would be delighted if you can come along to see and hear about some of our
learning then. If you are unable to come please feel free to nominate a relative or friend
to come in your place. An invitation will come from your child nearer the time.
Finally, if you have any questions or concerns at any point, please do not hesitate
to get in touch.
Thank you for your continued support,
Amanda Speirs
Scottish Week movie – Brave
I do not give permission for my child ________________________ to
watch Brave (PG Certificate) in the P1/2 class.
Signed ________________________
Date _______________