Hello!  Welcome to Primary 1.
In P1, Mrs Anderson is our teacher and Miss Bennette is our Classroom Assistant.  We love to learn, laugh and play together!  

We get to know our classmates, our teachers and our school and we have so much fun learning together.

in Literacy we learn reading, writing and phonics.  In the beginning we focus on phonological awareness.  We learn about syllables, alliteration, rhyming words and we learn to blend and segment words orally.   We learn the letter sounds and begin to build words and sentences and learn the correct way to form letters.  We use our phonics knowledge and learn reading strategies to help us become independent readers and writers.

in Numeracy we learn about Number, Shape, Space and Measure and Handling Data.  We learn a lot through songs and stories and through practical activities.  We use our World Around Us topics to make Numeracy fun, for example; in Autumn we will count, sort and weigh conkers, pine cones and acorns.  We create graphs for different colour leaves and we use natural materials that we collect on our Autumn walk to practice correct number formation.

Our World Around Us topics include, Autumn, Marvellous Me, Fairytales and Christmas, Whizzing Wheels, At the Farm, In the Jungle and Under the Sea.  From time to time our topics will change depending on the interests of the children.  

We also cover, PE, RE, PDMU and The Arts which are linked to our class topics where possible.

in P1 we participate in 1 hour per day of Play-Based Learning which is closely linked to our World Around Us topics and helps to reinforce our Literacy and Numeracy learning intentions.  Our aim is to take take learning outdoors as much as possible and we are constantly developing our outdoor play area to enhance outdoor play and learning.  We are now a Forest School and we enjoy participating in Forest School activities which help to develop independence, resilience, wellbeing, social skills, creativity, problem solving and the ability to share.  

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