Check out our most recent Nessie Knighthoods in Primary 1 below! Everyone has been working very hard to earn their knighthoods and showing all of our school values! Well done guys! 

World Book Week! 

We had an absolute blast on World Book Week! 

We dressed up as our favoruite book characters. 

We took part in drop everything and read when Mrs Imlack announced it over the tannoy! 

We read outside in the sunshine! 

We did some paired reading with our friends in Primary 6.

We took part in the Ness Castle Book hunt with Primary 6 where we had to find book hidden around the school using a list of clues! 

We watched and took part in a draw-along as part of an authors live session. We drew Arlo the lion! 

We took part in a world book day quiz in assmebly with Mr Connon! 

What a super duper World Book Week! Check out our photos below! 

We thoroughly deserve our long weekend after our hard work this week! We learned the b and the j sounds in phonics this week. We had a go at using our sounds to sound out some of the building materials used by the Three Little Pigs in writing. We have been learning to count in 2s in numeracy and in science we have been learning about solids, liquids and gas and working out what things will melt if they get too hot! 

Have a lovely long weekend! See you all on Thursday! 

Miss M :) 

Check out the snapshot of our learning below! From sequencing stories in our reading groups, to learning new sounds in phonics like L and U, to creating marble mazes and bridges for the billy goats out of Lego to celebrate international Lego day and to making our own bird feeders to encourage birds to visit our gardens - we have not stopped! Super learning, enthusiasm and brilliance as always for Primary 1! 

There is a copy of our Socts Poem "Mince and Tatties" By JK Annand that we will be learning as part of our Burns celebrations in school below. Please take the time to practise the poem at home. A few children from our class will have the chance to recite the peom as part of our Burns celebration assembly next week. Use the video below to help you with some of the Scots words in the poem. There is also a copy of the poem in children's homework jotters this week. 

Bursting into 2024! We have been go go go all week in Primary 1!  Check out our fantastic learning in the photos below! 

We had a very special visitor to our Christmas Party on Tuesday! Santa Claus very much came to town! Check out our fantastic photos below! 

We have been having a fantastic time creating some seasonal crafts, pictures and writing to display in school and at home! We created some super cool snowman Christmas cards to take home and share with our families. Then we thought about funny and exciting ways that a snowman might melt... and we we used our ideas as part of our writing job this week where we wrote about what made our snowmen melt! We even created brilliant melted snowmen portraits to go with them! 

This weeks Nessie Knighthood went to.... THE WHOLE OF PRIMARY 1! For being so incredibly awesome and fantastic performers in our nativity show this week. Your hard work, dedication and super duper singing shone through and you put on a brilliant show! SO PROUD!!! Congratulations to all of my fantastic P1 SUPER STARS! 

We had a lovely time getting into the Christmas spirit with our fantastic Christmas Lunch today! Our kitchen team really did a superb job and both the children and the staff very much enjoyed it! THANK YOU TO CINDY AND HER KITCHEN TEAM! 

At the start of this month we celebrated Scottish Book Week! As part of our celebrations we took part in lots of fun book and reading related activities around the school. We enjoyed taking part in a book hunt around the school using clues to help us find them, we listened to and LOVED Elmer the Elephant and we made our own elmer elephants using colourful pieces of paper. We were so excited to have Miss MacLean visit our classroom to read us a Scottish theme story and the best part was EVERYDAY Primary 6 visited our classroom for some paired reading where they sat and read us exciting stories from the library. And lastly we want to thank Ben, Frankie and Poppy's Mums for coming into our classroom on Friday to read our new bookbug stories to us! We can't wait to share these at home with our families! 

P1 Nativity Costume

Primary 1 will be wearing a white t-shirt provided by the school for the nativity. Please ensure your child is wearing black trousers, black leggings, or a black skirt – on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday for our performances next week.

Many thanks,

Miss Munro & Mrs Mudie

Celebration Assembly & Community Assembly this Friday 

Just a wee note to say that this Friday is a Celebration assesmbly. If your child has anything outwith of school they would like to celebrate/show (certificates/photos of acheivements/medals/taking part in any extra curricular activities) Please being them in to share on Thursday or Friday this week as they will have the opportunity to share at assembly with Mr Connon and the wider school! This week is also a community assembly - all Ness Castle residents and families and beyond welcome to attend - Only rule is you have to join in with our singing! 

Look forward to seeing/hearing of our outside of school acheivements! 

Miss M :) 

Just a wee note to say I will not be in class from 11:00am onwards tomorrow. A supply teacher will be in the class to cover. Therefore, I will not be avaliable at pick up time. 

READING HOMEWORK. 

Wordless books will be making their way home in homework packs from tomorrow. A letter to explain how you can use a wordless book will also be in your child's homework pack. Homework packs - complete with reading books- must be taken to school EVERYDAY as children will be using their books in class. Books will be collected in and swapped for a new book on  FRIDAY to be redistriubted out to children on a MONDAY. Children will not receive a new book until the previous one has been returned to the school. Please discuss with your child how books from school can be looked after and respected at home. 

Phonics sound sheets will also be continuing to go home in jotters  - this week you will have the "i" and "n" sound at home. 

If you have any questions regarding the homework please let me know at paretns evening appointments on Tuesday/Wednesday. Dates and times of appoitnments went home with children last week in homework packs or for those who did not have homework - they went in the front pockets of school bags. 

Loo forward to seeing you all then. 

Miss M :) 

As part of our Seasons and Celebrations Topic this term we have been learning about Remembrance Day. We learned that this happens every years on the 11th of November and that people wear Poppy's to remember people who fought in the wars. We decided to make our own Poppy's to help us to remember and show our respect to all the soldiers that fought. We are looking forward to displaying them in our classroom. 

In maths, we have been practising numbers before and after, counting backwards from 10 and talking about one more and one less than. Check out our super learning below! 

We have been learning all about the "t" sound in class last week! Check out our hard working in the snaps below! 

We have been learning about our senses in science lessons on a Thursday afternoon. Last week we focused on our sense of touch! We tried feeling around in the mystery box without looking - once with a sock on our hand and once without. We found that it was easier to work out what the items were when we did not have anything on our hands. We did a great job working out what each thing was too! 

HALLOWEEN! 

Check out our SPOOKTACULAR Pictures from a packed and fun wee at Ness Castle! 

HOMEWORK!

Homework will now be going home on a Monday. Homework will contain activities based on the current phonics sounds we have been learning in class. Last week we introduce our first two sounds: "S" and "a" so this is the sounds you have at home to practise and consolidate this week. 

Homework consists of a letter formation sheet for both sounds where children have a line to practise their letter formation and a character to represent the sound to colour in. It also contains the the action for each sound whihc goes along with our jolly phonics song we have been learning in class. Information about how to access and listen to each song can be found in the middle of the homework grid at the start of your jotter. 

There is also a phonics homework grid which you can find at the start of your homework jotter. The gird is full of ideas and fun activities you can try at home to help reinforce the learning of each sound. You can try as many or as little of these jobs every week as you like. Remember homework should fit around you and what works for you as a family at home! 

PLEASE MAKE SURE HOMEWORK PACKS COME BACK TO SCHOOL EVERYDAY! This is is to get us into a good habit for when reading books go home as we will be using them in class each day. 

If you have any questions - please fire me an email or grab me at the door! 

Miss Munro :) 

A few things to remember this week!

• No Homework is given for week 1 of the new term so homework packs will not go home until next Monday. 

• We will be starting phonics this term and our homework from next will will reflect the sounds we have been learning in class. We will be learning the s and a sounds this week. 

• This Friday will be a dress down or dress up for Halloween day - what ever your preference. No Masks are allowed in school. 

• Well done to everyone for returning our blue homework packs today or at the end of last term. Now we will be doing phonics homework each week, it is important to bring your homework pack to school every day so it is avalible for homework and notes home to be added. 

• Remember we started a new meun this term. Please take the time to talk through and discuss food options with your child before the start of each school week. Please see a copy of the new menu below! 

Miss M :) 

Despite having a short week - in P1 that didn't stop us from packing in lots of learning and fun! We have been learning about subitising in Maths where we have been practising recognising dot patterns up to 10. We have also been hard at work at creating fabulous Christmas cards! Don't worry - we know it's early! We have to get them done early so they can be sent away to be made into Cards, Mugs, Tea Towels etc. Check out our fab photos below. All of these things featuring our fantastic reindeer design will be avalible to order before Christmas - we will keep you posted with details on how to do this. 

Remember next week is the final week of term 1 - where has the time gone?! 

A reminder that our blue homework packs - which now contain a lovely blue jotter - should come to school every single day. This is so staff have access to pop letters and information home and also gets us into a good routine for reading books  - which need to go between home and school every day. 

I will collect homework packs in to keep on a Friday so I can set up homework in them ready for Monday. 

We are getting very good at remembering to do this so keep it up P1! 

Have a lovely weekend when it comes! See you all next week! 

Miss Munro :) 

A copy of our P1 Home Learning Grid went home in your child's homework pack today - along with a few print outs. This is to be used over Tuesday-Thursdays strike action days  - only if you wish and if this works for your home and child care situation. If you click on the Document attached and choose open in brower this will allow you to view the learning grid and also click on the links we have provided for stories and P.E sessions too. 

Reminder - Please make sure your child brings their homework pack into school everyday so staff are able to update anything and pop anything home safely in bags. It is also good practise for when we start sending home reading books - as these need to be used in class daily too. Thank you so much for this. 

We had a Karate taster session last week and we loved every second of it! We learned about the importance of respect in Karate and we had a great time practising our new moves!

As part of our topic this term we have been sharing and learning all about our families and our classmates families. We have talked about the special people in our lives and why it is so important to have people who love and care for us. We has also been learning about how all families are different and that they come in all shape and sizes! We have been making our families using pebbles and stones, as well as using lolly pop sticks to create our houses to draw our families inside! We are a creative bunch here in Primary 1! 

Check out our fantastic Numeracy learning in P1 last week!  We have been mastering our number recognition and counting within 5! We have been using lots of different resources and activities to help us. We have been using numicon number shapes, playdough, the numberblocks characters, dot patterns and peg boards! What super mathematicians we have!

Take a look at what we have been getting up to this week! We have been continuing our learning of numbers to 10. We looked at number 2 this week! We have worked hard to practise recognising, forming and counting. We have also had some super creations made with our building blocks this week - from castles to car garages! AMAZING! 

Reminders for this week!

• Hopes and Dreams appointment time slips went home in school bags yesterday. 

• Hopes and Dreams forms for you to complete with your child at home were put home in bags yesterday. Please return this to school before the meetings on Tuesday next week if you can. 

• This Friday is a Dress Down Day! Woo! 

Check out some snapshots below of our 2nd week in Primary 1 so far! We have been learning about the number zero in numeracy and practising our fine motor and cutting skills each day. We had a super time in P.E, exploring diffrent ways to travel round the hall. We are doing so well at listening and following instructions. We have also been building some super towers - even taller than us! 

One proud P1 teacher right here!!! Keep up the awesome work P1! :) 

Miss M