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We would like to take this opportunity welcome you and your child/children to Primary 1 and to share with you some information about what your child’s day will look like as they begin Primary School. This is a very exciting time for you and your child as they begin school but one that can also come with some wonders and worries - we hope that sharing some information with you today will help you to support you to have positive conversations with your child as they move to Primary 1. Building relationships is key to our success and we will spend time getting to know your child and building on all of the wonderful things that they have learned in Early Learning and Childcare and with you.
We would like to take this opportunity welcome you and your child/children to Primary 1 and to share with you some information about what your child’s day will look like as they begin Primary School. This is a very exciting time for you and your child as they begin school but one that can also come with some wonders and worries - we hope that sharing some information with you today will help you to support you to have positive conversations with your child as they move to Primary 1. Building relationships is key to our success and we will spend time getting to know your child and building on all of the wonderful things that they have learned in Early Learning and Childcare and with you.
Our School Environment
Our School Environment
Have a look at some photographs of:
Our Playground
Our P1 door
Where we have lunch
Our toilets
Pedagogy of Learning and Teaching in Primary 1
Pedagogy of Learning and Teaching in Primary 1
‘Learning through play’ allows children to use their creativity while developing their imagination, dexterity, and physical, cognitive, and emotional strength. Play is important to healthy brain development. It is through play that children at a very early age children learn about the world in which they live and how to take risks and manage risks.
Learning through play in Primary 1 engages children and challenges children’s thinking. Motivated children who are actively engaged with tasks, that have a clear purpose, will retain and learn more and will be more likely to transfer knowledge in order to apply it in different situations. Right from the outset, young children will be partners in the learning process; actively participating in planning and shaping the direction of their own learning.
Through play, children can:
• Work in partnership with others
• Express themselves
• Build their independence
• Make sense of their experiences
• Manipulate materials
• Test out new knowledge
• Develop new skills
The Learning Environment
The Learning Environment
Our learning environment enables and encourages children to become independent learners. On a daily basis, pupils will experience a balance of teacher led activities, related follow up tasks which are called targets and then opportunities to lead their play and learning in areas around the classroom.
The classrooms are calm environments with natural materials such as loose parts and wooden blocks. These open ended materials enable children to use them in a variety of different ways to extend and elaborate their play. Some of the areas within the classroom are:
Small World
Creative Area
Construction/STEM Area
Imaginative Play
Curriculum for Excellence
Curriculum for Excellence
Curriculum for Excellence is a 3 - 18 skills based curriculum which is designed to prepare our young learners with skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work. The curriculum is divided into eight areas of learning as follows:
Expressive Arts
Health and Wellbeing
Science
Social Studies
Technologies
Religious and Moral Education
Literacy, Numeracy and Health and Wellbeing are given added importance within the curriculum because they are so vital to everyday life and their relevance to other subjects.
Numeracy areas taught include:
Number, money and measure
Shape, position and movement
Information handling
Literacy areas taught include:
Listening and Talking
Reading
Writing
The following link provides additional information about a Curriculum for Excellence:
Homework
Pupils in Primary One receive short weekly homework tasks, which are posted on Google Classroom, to practise and reinforce learning taught in school. To assist your support with this, we post online recordings on Google Classroom during the year to help parents to understand our approach to Literacy.
Contexts for Learning
Contexts for Learning
Over the year, the children have the opportunity to lead their own learning and choose a variety of topics. Through planning together with the children, we make links across the curriculum, encouraging the children to ask questions about what they would like to learn. The children enjoy this responsibility and the recording of their learning through class Big Books and topic wall displays.
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