Interdisciplinary Learning:Our Amazing WorldWe will look at many aspects of our Natural and Human Made World guided by the children’s interests, topical events and Curriculum for Excellence. Please email any suggestions to or through Twitter or our Face Book page. We will continue to incorporate a play-based approach to our learning activities where possible. We will also continue to plan activities that allow pupils to work in a multi-sensory way including the use outdoor learning and loose parts where possible. These may include lifecycles and living things.

What I will be learning

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Discrete SubjectsLearning grids with details of activities and learning will be posted on the school website each week and twitter challenges will also be posted each week.Literacy - Phonics We will continue to consolidate the work covered on Block Two of Literacy Rich alongside Jolly Phonic. We will be looking at the following consonant and vowel digraphs ai/ay, ee/ea/, oa/ow, igh/-y, ew/oo, oi/oy, ou/ow and au/aw. We will use this knowledge within the context of building and segmenting words, creating/reading sentences whilst continuing to learn new tricky words.Literacy - Reading We will continue to suggest a range of focused reading materials to further develop reading skills. There will be an emphasis on comprehension and enjoyment. We will use blooms questions to support comprehension.Literacy - Writing We will continue to provide challenges which will develop building words and sentences. We also will continue to develop our letter formation using the letter formation suggestions in the weekly grid and the letter formation guide provided in the P1 work pack. We will practice using common words correctly using the daily activities provided in the grid. Numeracy We will continue developing our numeracy skills through a range of activities in the weekly grid as well as the weekly challenge posted on Twitter. These will be following the progression of the Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning. (SEAL). We will work on counting forwards and backwards to support mental addition, subtraction and problem-solving skills. We will also look at sharing out equally as the foundation to division skills.Maths We will consolidate our learning on shape, symmetry, pattern, time, data handling and measure. We will also learn about money. PE This term we will focus on being active through a range of daily challenges and activities.French We will continue to develop our French through activities on the general page of the school website.Technology/ICT We will be using technology across all of our learning grids, as well as Education City and Sum Dog. We will also be learning about Internet safety.

Health & Wellbeing Focusing on taking care of our health and wellbeing, in what is a challenging time, is more important than ever. Activities will be included in weekly grids as well as a weekly Twitter challenge. We will also move onto the next unit of our whole school Building Resilience programme – Making a Difference. Activities will be on weekly grids, and school website. Content will also be posted on the school Face Book page which will help us to keep connected.

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