Week Twelve

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Week Eight

Weekly Learning Recap: Shapes, Emotions & Kindness

What a busy week it’s been in P1! We've been learning all about shapes, emotions. and our school values.

We started the week exploring 3D shapes—cylinder, sphere, cube, cuboid, and cone. 

The children enjoyed identifying these shapes in real-life objects, noticing that some shapes can stack (like cubes) while others can roll (like spheres and cylinders). This hands-on exploration helped reinforce the children’s understanding of these shapes in a practical way. 

In gymnastics, we worked on balance, dance, and movement. The children practiced travelling through space in different ways, developing their physical coordination and building confidence in their abilities.

Throughout the week, we read a story a day focused on different emotions, which helped the children understand and express their feelings. This led to thoughtful discussions on how emotions affect us and others.

• The lazy scarecrow

• Scaredy bat

• Elephant learns to share

• The very hungry worry monster

• Tiger has a tantrum

We also consolidated our learning of 2D shapes by creating pictures using only 2D shapes. The children used their imaginations to turn simple shapes into all sorts of fun images—animals, houses, and more!

In literacy, we learned two new sounds: j and v. The children practiced making these sounds with various activities, including forming the letters using magnetic letters and writing on magnetic boards. We also worked on CVC and CVCC words, reinforcing our blending and reading skills

During our reading group time we worked on story sequencing and continued blending sounds in our books. The children did an excellent job of understanding the order of events in stories and blending sounds to read more fluently. Remember to keep reading your book nightly at home. 

As part of our Shanarri work, the children worked collaboratively to create posters, drawing pictures that reflect our values. These posters are displayed to help remind us of the importance of being safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible and included. 

During music we listened to and learned 'Ye cannae shove yer granny aff a bus'. We kept the beat using our hands clapping and playing the boom whackers. We performed to Miss MacIsaac and Primary 5 and she was so impressed with our performance and how responsibly we lined up that everyone got 10 house points for their team - thanks Miss MacIsaac! 

Finally, we filled cups of kindness with some cvc words and pictures of kind acts to help us learn more about our school value of kindness. 

It’s been another wonderful week full of learning and growing. We hope you have a lovely weekend, and we look forward to more exciting adventures next week. Hopefully the sun will keep shining! 🌟😊

Please remember to return your Parent Appointment slips on Monday - much appreciated.

Week Six

Weekly Learning Recap: Valentines, Emotions & Big Celebrations

What a lovely week we’ve had in P1! From celebrating Valentine’s Day with P1M to exploring emotions and expressing our feelings, there has been so much creativity and learning!

This week we had a special Valentine’s Day celebration. The children worked together to create Bee Mine bees, Love Bugs , and CVC hearts, using their phonics skills to match letters and sounds to create words. We also took inspiration from Kandinsky to create heart patterns using oil pastels.

To continue our emotional exploration, we enjoyed watching Storybots to learn more about feelings and emotions, with a special focus on love for Valentine’s Day. The children engaged in meaningful conversations about what love means and how we can express our feelings in kind ways.

In writing, we focused on love and took time to think about the things we love and why. The children were able to share their favourite things and explain what makes them special. It was wonderful to hear such thoughtful and creative expressions of love from each child.

We also have a very special mention this week! A huge congratulations to Eleanor, who won the Homes of the Future competition for P1! 🎉 Eleanor’s design was creative, sustainable, and colourful—well done!

It’s been a wonderful week filled with creativity, love, and learning. I hope you enjoy talking to your child about all the fun activities and feelings we explored this week. Have a lovely weekend! 💖🎨🏡

Week Four

Weekly Learning Recap: Celebrations, Scotland & Super Sentences!

What an exciting and busy week we’ve had in P1! We’ve been celebrating Chinese New Year, exploring Scotland, and building on our literacy and numeracy skills through hands-on activities.

We learned all about Chinese New Year 2025 – the Year of the Snake! The children discovered the importance of red and yellow, the lucky colours of the festival, and practiced using chopsticks to pick up objects—a tricky but fun challenge! We also created beautiful lanterns and snakes.

As part of our Scotland topic, we explored some key Scottish symbols. The children made their own Scottish flags (the Saltire or St Andrew’s Cross) using scrunched tissue paper, practicing their fine motor skills. We also looked at tartan and how it links to our previous learning on patterns and families—identifying different colours and learning about clans.

In numeracy, we focused on counting in 2s, building on our pattern work while also helping us count money using 2p coins. We explored pairs and thought about things that come in twos—like socks, shoes, and gloves!

In literacy, we learned two new sounds: u and r. The children had lots of fun forming these letters using playdough, peg boards, paint, and writing them out. We also worked hard on writing sentences, making sure that the first word started with a capital letter and that we used a full stop at the end. We built sentences using CVC words and the common word ‘a’, helping to reinforce our early writing skills.

It’s been a super week of learning, creativity, and discovery. I encourage you to ask your child about their favourite activity and maybe even challenge them to spot things that come in pairs at home! 🧦🐍✨

Week Two

Weekly Learning Recap: Patterns, Letters & Staying Safe!

This week, P1S have been busy building independence, exploring new skills, and having lots of fun along the way!

We worked on creating patterns using colours, numbers, and shapes—this time with more independence!
The children used peg boards, cubes, and LEGO to design and extend their own patterns, strengthening their problem-solving and sequencing skills as well as fine motor.

In literacy, we focused on the letters Ee and Hh, practicing sounds and recognizing them in words.
We also worked on writing our names, making sure to use a capital letter at the beginning and correct small letters thereafter. It’s been wonderful to see the children taking pride in writing their own names correctly!
We played lots of games to help recognise our own name and other names in our class.

Scottish dancing brought energy and excitement to the week during PE! We learned about a reel (which is fast) and a waltz (which is slow). The children had a great time moving to the music and understanding the difference in tempo. We linked this to maths and music by counting and keeping the beat in order to dance in time. For a reel we counted as high as 8 and for a waltz a pattern of 1-2-3. 

A very important part of our learning this week was about feelings, knowing our safe adults, and stranger danger with Jo from Safe Strong and Free. The children discussed how to recognize different emotions, who they can turn to if they need help, and how to stay safe in different situations.

It’s been a fantastic week full of learning and growth in independence! I encourage you to ask your child about their safe adults, new sounds, or even show you some of their new dance moves. 💃🕺✨

We award a Nessie Knight certificate each week to a child who has wowed us. Mr Connon gives these out during our Friday assembly. 

Congratulations to our Nessie Knight winners below!