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We are delighted to welcome your child into Primary 2 and would like to share some important information with you about your child's experience during this year. We hope that this answers any queries you have, encourages positive conversations with your child about any wonders or worries they have and ignites their curiosity and excitement for their year ahead!
Primary 2 Playground
Primary 2 Playground
Children will enter through the Primary 2 door in their playground. They will be collected from the top of the Primary 2 playground at the end of the day.
Children will enter through the Primary 2 door in their playground. They will be collected from the top of the Primary 2 playground at the end of the day.
Pedagogy of Learning and Teaching in Primary 2
Pedagogy of Learning and Teaching in Primary 2
Playful Pedagogy is a way of integrating children’s play experiences with curricular learning, giving pupils the flexibility to find their own solutions to both new and existing problems. It engages children in personally meaningful activities, learning about themselves and others, and encourages autonomy and their independent motivation-to-learn.
Our Primary 2 classrooms are set up for Playful Pedagogy which include various different continuous provision 'areas', grouped tables for independent learning and a teaching table. Each day your child will spend time at the teaching table on teacher-led activities in literacy, numeracy and another curricular areas.
When your child is not at the teaching table, they will be accessing the continuous provision areas of the classroom or completing their numeracy and literacy 'targets'. Following on from Primary 1, these targets will take the form of a mixture of written and active tasks which enable your child to independently develop their skills.
Below are some examples of the different areas and resources that your child may access in Primary 2. 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
Creativity
STEM area
Construction
Imaginative area
"Creating an environment that provides rich play experiences is critical in meeting the needs of our children and young people. Offering them choices to develop the skills of expression, thought, curiosity, movement, problem solving and achievement provides a sound basis for fostering the development of useful skills and attributes which will serve them well throughout life." Education Scotland
"Creating an environment that provides rich play experiences is critical in meeting the needs of our children and young people. Offering them choices to develop the skills of expression, thought, curiosity, movement, problem solving and achievement provides a sound basis for fostering the development of useful skills and attributes which will serve them well throughout life." Education Scotland
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