Ask me –

1. 6 add what makes ten ?
2. To write the capital letters for a through to g
3. When we need to use capital letters in our writing.
4. What ibex are really good at.

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Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

We have been learning how to correctly form the capital letters for a,b,c,d,e,f, and g

Story Writing

Our story writing prompt this week was Our Holiday

This week we have been revising our reading recognition of block one and two tricky words.

Tricky words

Please find below a list for reference with block one and block two words introduced so far

Block one – I the to was saw put he he me is his want

Block 2 so far- she we be all are they come some said one were there into here

Maths and numeracy focus

We have spent some time this week revising our instant recall of number bonds/number pairs which make ten.

Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we had one last lesson in our gymnastics block. We also learned some new games which help us to practise skills such as timing and hand-eye co-ordination.

Looking ahead to next week

Class photos on Wednesday ( no PE for us as the hall is being used). Loose Parts on Thursday.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Use this game to revise number bonds of ten. ( choose number bonds of 20 if you already are an expert at number bonds of 10)

Play this Subtraction game – choose the ‘less than’ option and then select from the number range options

Use our class spelling city page to play games which will help you to learn to spell our block one and two tricky words. Follow this link and then choose the list you would like to practise.

Revise your phonics with phonics bloom or balloon phonics

Ask me –

1. How many minutes are in an hour ?
2. To read o’clock times on a digital and analogue clock
3. To spell the words pink, rink, sank, tank,
4. To tell you about skunks.

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Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

Story Writing

Our story writing prompt this week was “The pink pig.”

This week we have been learning about consonant blends and the end and beginning of words. This week’s sound was nk

Tricky words

This week we introduced two new words from block 2 – into and here. Please support your child at home with learning to both read and spell these words.

As requested at parent’s night please find below a list for reference with block one and block two words introduced so far

Block one – I the to was saw put he he me is his want

Block 2 so far- she we be all are they come some said one were there into here

Maths and numeracy focus

We have started to learn about time. This includes days of the week, months of the year, seasons, routines, and reading digital and analogue clocks. This week’s focus was reading anaologe and digital clocks to the whole hour ( and half past for some pupils)

Other areas of the curriculum

We have been exploring the RSHP unit ‘Asking questions, making choices’ We have talked about questions with clear yes/ no answers such as ‘ Is this Thursday?’ and preference questions such as ‘ Do you like brocolli ? / ‘Would you like to read a book or draw a picture?’ We also learned about question marks.

In PE we have been playing games and working at stations designed to revise all the skills we have been developing recently – core strength, balance, fitness, dexterity, hand/eye coordination and shoulder pivot.

Looking ahead to next week

Last day of term is Thursday – finishing at the usual time of 2.55. There will be no Friday blog post next week. Have a peaceful Easter break.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Look around the house for different clocks/ways to tell the time. Do you have a calendar? What information do you put on your calendar?

Use this game to practise telling the time. Choose your own level of difficulty.

Play this Subtraction game – choose the ‘less than’ option and then select from the number range options

Use our class spelling city page to play games which will help you to learn to spell our block one and two tricky words. Follow this link and then choose the list you would like to practise.

Revise your phonics with phonics bloom or balloon phonics

Ask me –

1. To name the days of the week in order.
2. To name the day before/after a given day.
3. To spell the words ring, sing, wing, bang, hang, long, strong
4. To tell you about things with wings.

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Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

Story Writing

Our story writing prompt this week was “My castle….”

This week we have been learning about consonant blends and the end and beginning of words. This week’s sound was ng

Tricky words

This week we introduced two new words from block 2 – were and there. Please support your child at home with learning to both read and spell these words.

As requested at parent’s night please find below a list for reference with block one and block two words introduced so far

Block one – I the to was saw put he he me is his want

Block 2 so far- she we be all are they come some said one were there

Maths and numeracy focus

We have started to learn about time. This includes days of the week, months of the year, seasons, routines, and reading digital and analogue clocks. This week’s focus was days of the week and daily routines.

We continue to explore subtraction strategies, including using concrete materials, numberlines, and mental counting back.

Other areas of the curriculum

We have been learning about things with wings. we learned that a bat is a mammal which can fly, penguins have wings but can’t fly, and ostriches are the worlds largest birds and they can’t fly because they are too heavy,

In PE we continue to learn about balance , rolls ( teaching safe technique for forward rolls) and revising our throwing skills to develop shoulder pivot and strength.

Looking ahead to next week

Loose parts ( messy play) on Thursday.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Practise naming the day before /after a given day. This is a trickier skill than simply chanting the days of the week in order by rote.

Play this Subtraction game – choose the ‘less than’ option and then select from the number range options

Use our class spelling city page to play games which will help you to learn to spell our block one and two tricky words. Follow this link and then choose the list you would like to practise.

Revise your phonics with phonics bloom or balloon phonics

Ask me –

1. To tell you about the features that keep a castle safe.
2. To count backwards from 20 and to do some oral subtraction sums
3. To spell the words soft, left, gift, melt, felt, said and one
4. To tell you how paper is made.

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Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

Story Writing

Our story writing prompt this week was “I left…..”

This week we have been learning about consonant blends and the end and beginning of words. This week’s sounds have been lt and ft

Tricky words

This week we introduced two new words from block 2 – said and one. Please support your child at home with learning to both read and spell these words.

As requested at parent’s night please find below a list for reference with block one and block two words introduced so far

Block one – I the to was saw put he he me is his want

Block 2 so far- she we be all are they come some said one

Maths and numeracy focus

We completed some written addition calculations and have started to explore subtraction strategies, including using concrete materials, numberlines, and mental counting back.

Other areas of the curriculum

Our whole school Building resilience unit is ‘ respect yourself’

We are learning that we are all special and unique. As part of this unit we have been singing the Fischy Music songs Fabbydabbydee and I’m the only I ( and others), You can listen at home too on spotify.

Another whole school focus is ‘Sustainability’ and we have been learning about how paper is made and why we should try not to waste paper.

In PE we continue to learn about balance , rolls ( teaching safe technique for forward rolls) and revising our throwing skills to develop shoulder pivot and strength.

We have been investigating features of castles that help to keep the people inside safe. We noticed that many castles are built on hills or near the sea. Some key vocabulary to discuss includes – portcullis, drawbridge, moat, arrow slits, battlements, crenels and bailey.

Looking ahead to next week

A reminder that PE days will be Monday and Wednesday. If possible, could children who have long hair have it tied back in a low ponytail or pleat and avoid fancy hairbands or hair clips ( doing forward rolls with a high ponytail or hair clips can hurt !) Thank you.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Play this Subtraction game – choose the ‘less than’ option and then select from the number range options

Use our class spelling city page to play games which will help you to learn to spell our block one and two tricky words. Follow this link and then choose the list you would like to practise.

Revise your phonics with phonics bloom or balloon phonics

Historic Sundays – The following Historic Scotland sites have free admission this Sunday. Advance booking is required. I thought this may be of interest as we are currently learning about castles.

Historic Sundays sites

• Aberdour Castle
• Arbroath Abbey
• Blackness Castle
• Bothwell Castle
• Caerlaverock Castle
• Craigmillar Castle
• Dirleton Castle
• Doune Castle
• Dryburgh Abbey
• Duff House
• Dumbarton Castle
• Dunstaffnage Castle
• Edinburgh Castle
• Elgin Cathedral
• Fort George
• Huntingtower Castle
• Huntly Castle
• Jedburgh Abbey

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Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

This week we have been learning about consonant blends and the end and beginning of words. This week’s sounds have been sp and nt

Tricky words

This week we introduced two new words from block 2 – come and some. Please support your child at home with learning to both read and spell these words.

As requested at parent’s night please find below a list for reference with block one and block two words introduced so far

Block one – I the to was saw put he he me is his want

Block 2 so far- she we be all are they come some

Story Writing

Our story writing prompt this week was a free choice to draw and write anything we wanted.

Maths and numeracy focus

We have continued to work on Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning ( SEAL) developing our addition strategies, in particular the ‘counting on’ strategy of holding a larger number in your head and counting on from there to find a total.

Other areas of the curriculum

Our whole school Building resilience unit is ‘ respect yourself’

We are learning that we are all special and unique. As part of this unit we have been singing the Fischy Music songs Fabbydabbydee and I’m the only I. You can listen at home too on spotify.

We have been learning how to use a hole punch and split pins to make moving joins.

In PE we continue to learn about balance and we have begun to investigate different ways to roll our body. We learned how to ‘pencil roll’ our bodies – it takes a lot of core strength !

Our House names are all names of Scottish Castles and the children would like to find our more about castles.. Here are some of the questions we have…..

How are castles built ?

Why do castles sometimes have bridges ?

Why do castles sometimes have grass inside them ?

How are flags made ?

What do castles look like ?

Why do castles have pointy bits ?

What do castle windows look like ?

Who lives in a castle ?

Do castles have guards ?

Looking ahead to next week

Thursday is World book day. We would like to ‘ Get comfy and read’ so we invite the children to wear their comfy clothes if they wish, and to bring a favourite book ( please make sure it is named)

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Use our class spelling city page to play games which will help you to learn to spell our block one and two tricky words. Follow this link and then choose the list you would like to practise.

Revise your phonics with phonics bloom or balloon phonics

Play this Addition practice game – choose one of the totals options

Draw a picture of a castle or talk with your family about a castle you have visited/seen in the past.

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Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

This week we have been learning about consonant blends and the end and beginning of words. This week’s sounds have been rk, nt, st and nd

Tricky words

This week I have been assessing the children’s ability to read and spell all of the block one words. We also introduced two new words from block 2 – they and all. Please support your child at home with learning to both read and spell these words.

Story Writing

Our story writing prompt this week was ‘At the park’

Maths and numeracy focus

We have continued to work on Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning ( SEAL) developing our understanding of number and our ability to manipulate and calculate.

Other areas of the curriculum

We learned about the story of Noah and his Ark.

In PE we have been learning about balance, how a wider base helps with stability and also about different numbers of points of balance.

Looking ahead to next week

Parent consultation meetings on Tuesday and Thursday.

Loose parts play on Friday.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Use our class spelling city page to play games which will help you to learn to spell our block one and two tricky words. Follow this link and then choose the list you would like to practise.

Revise your phonics with phonics bloom or balloon phonics

Play this coins game

Huge congratulations to the eight pupils from the class who chose to present their recitation of The Selkirk Grace and to the three finalists who went forward to share their learning at the assembly. The two pupils chosen to go forward to the regional finals were from p2 and p3, but our P1s were absolutely amazing, I am so proud of them all.

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Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

This week we have been revising the sounds wh, th, sh, ch.

We had no new Tricky words this week as we continue to consolidate those we have introduced so far. It is important that pupils learn to recognise and spell these words so we would appreciate your continued support at home to practise this skill.

Maths and numeracy focus

This week I have been assessing the children’s ability to recognise coins to £2, and to create and count amounts of money using appropriate coins.

Please support our learning about money at home by using appropriate vocabulary ( e.g. only use the term ‘ penny’ for a one pence coin, and use the term coins when referring to a pile of loose change) and allowing children to handle real coins as often as possible.

Below are links to a game we have used in school which you may also wish to use at home to support this learning.

Other areas of the curriculum

We completed an assessment task to show our learning about Scotland

In PE we used our favourite Scottish music dance tracks for warm ups and then listened to some Chinese music and used sequences of movement to explore activities and traditions surrounding Chinese New year.

Primary sevens came again with their ipads to show us how to play some learning games.

Looking ahead to next week

Holiday week – see you all back on Monday 19th

( Loose parts on Tuesday 20th)

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Develop your proprioceptive skills by getting outside and climbing, running, jumping and hanging upside down !

Mrs Imrie has set a whole school quiz for families to complete. You can find it here.

Revise your phonics with phonics bloom or balloon phonics

Play this coins game

A winter plea! I know it is not always the easiest thing to do, but it would help us so much if winter accessories ( hats. gloves. scarves etc) are named or at least initialled so that we can reunite them with their owners even when those owners deny ever having had a pair of gloves with them !!

Also, please continue to send in your clean recycling. Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

Our new sounds this week were th and wh.

Tricky words .

Learn to read and spell the word are

Writing prompt this week was ‘in the bath’

Maths and numeracy focus

Our continued focus this week was on coin recognition and counting /creating amounts of money using a variety o coins.

Below are links to a game we have used in school which you may also wish to use at home to support this learning.

Other areas of the curriculum

We have continued to discuss what we know about Scotland. We have looked at the work of a range of Scottish Artists and tried to recreate some famous works. We learned more about the history of tartan and how the cloth is woven. Mrs Cross told us the story of ‘The Three Donalds’ a tale of how tartan may have been invented !

In PE we continue to put our elements of scottish country dancing together. We now know a simplified circassian circle and the dashing white sergeant

Primary sevens came with their ipads to show us how to play some learning games.

We were asked to make a short video about our RRS display. We thought you might like to see it.

https://videopress.com/v/waEzAAMo?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true

Looking ahead to next week

Loose parts play on Wednesday .

Next Friday one child will be chosen to perform the Selkirk Grace at our Early level assembly. Please keep learning it at home using the link from last week ( also below)

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

For the whole school Burns competition please learn to recite the Selkirk Grace.

This video might help you

Ask an adult to help you look up your family tartan. Which colours can you see ? You might want to print a picture of it and bring it in, or try to draw a picture of it. Remember, not all surnames have their own tartan but they may have an associated one.

Play this coins game

A winter plea! I know it is not always the easiest thing to do, but it would help us so much if winter accessories ( hats. gloves. scarves etc) are named or at least initialled so that we can reunite them with their owners even when those owners deny ever having had a pair of gloves with them !!

Also, please continue to send in your clean recycling. Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

Our new sounds this week were sh and ch. We have also enjoyed using our phonics skills to read independently – a great sense of achievement. We are lucky to have volunteer support from Mrs Petit – she loves to read with us. We continue to practise correct letter formation .

Tricky words .

Learn to read and spell the words – she, we, be

Writing prompt this week was ‘at the shop’

Maths and numeracy focus

Our continued focus this week was on addition skills – aiming to use a counting on strategy where possible, Some pupils have been investigating how numbers are made of bundles of hundreds, tens and units.

Below are links to two games we have used in school which you may also wish to use at home to support this learning.

Tens and Units – Shark numbers

Robot Addition

Other areas of the curriculum

We have started to discuss what we know about Scotland. We have looked at Scotland’s position on a world map and the position of Edinburgh. We know that Scotland is famous for lots of things like castles, lochs ( with monsters) tartan and bagpipes. We have decided we would like to find out more abut famous Scottish people including Robert Burns and Charles Rennie Macintosh . We designed some watercolour paintings inspired by the work of Charles Rennie Macintosh.

In PE we created more sequences of the movement patterns we have been learning and then we made sets and learned to dance the Canadian barn dance and a simplified version of the Virginia Reel. We have discovered that dancing is great Cardio exercise

Looking ahead to next week

Drop in session on Tuesday am.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

For the whole school Burns competition please learn to recite the Selkirk Grace.

This video might help you

Tell an adult what you know about Robert Burns

( one for the adults!) If at all possible – start a collection of loose change – we will soon begin some formal learning about money and recognising real coins is an important outcome. In these cashless days children may not see coins very often.

We are scheduled for a loose parts play session on Thursday but we will have to see what the weather is like on the day. Currently the forecast is not for high winds, so I suggest they come prepared and we will only cancel if it is much too wet.

Also, as it is Burns’ day on Thursday, the children are welcome to wear some tartan if they wish – no obligation at all.