We have had great fun making items for the Christmas Fayre this Friday.

We have made Reindeer hot chocolates and Reindeer candy canes.

What a fab job the children have done!

Following our visit into our local community, we would like to find out more about the jobs people do in the places we found.

We are looking for parents/carers who work in: Raigmore hospital, Police Scotland, Tesco, Carlton Bingo or the Office blocks at Inshes roundabout.

We would love for you to come in and chat to us about your job and what skills are involved.

Available dates are:

Monday 2nd December 915am until 1215pm

Tuesday 3rd December 915am until 1215pm

Wednesday 4th December 915am until 1030am

(Alternative dates could maybe be arranged if needed 😊)

Please get in touch if you can help!

Thank you

We visited the Book Fair today to see what was for sale. Children took post its home with book titles and prices if they fancied anything. We will visit the Book Fair again on Monday to purchase anything. Parents/Carers are welcome to visit the Book Fair tomorrow and Monday from 245pm til 330pm.

Soft start

We continue to play with a variety of numeracy, literacy, fine motor, construction and craft activities during soft start. The children love to draw so I tried to mix it up a little by taping paper to the table. They loved it. They drew on it, wrote words and even did some sums. The bonfire activities were another hit!

Numeracy

The children have amazed me this last couple of weeks with their progress in numeracy. Lots of the children are completing some of their targets for their learning folder which is fab. What has impressed me most is the attitudes of the children-I have seen such determination and enthusiasm from them. They are desperate for sums and numeracy challenges and really want to push themselves. This is great to see! Some children even wanted chalk so they could practise sums at lunchtime! Love it!

Literacy

We had some twister to practise our phonics and cvc words, a relay race to practise proper nouns and a ‘phonics party’ to practise our phonics!

The p2s have also been working on summarising stories. I was thrilled with their work last week. We have been using grids to help us breakdown stories so they are easier to summarise. Last week the p2s had a go on their own. I was amazed by how well they summarised their reading books…completely independently. Some even made their own grids! #proudteacher

Community visit

We had a great trip into the community yesterday. We wanted to know what was in the local area. We took maps and went exploring. We found lots of important places such as the hospital, police station and Tesco. This got us thinking about jobs people do in these places. We will learn more about these jobs and skills needed for these jobs over the next few weeks.

Yesterday we were learning all about the ‘Diwali’ festival. We learned all about the story of ‘Rama and Sita’ and then worked as a team to sequence the story.

This morning the boys and girls had character puppets from the story out for soft start. They had great fun performing the story for each other.

We had our first of 2 tennis sessions this afternoon. We learned lots of skills and had a wonderful time. We can’t wait for our second session in a few weeks!

Please click on the link below to access our termly newsletter for P1/2.

Christmas card orders are due this Friday (8th November). Please can all forms and money be in by this date if you wish to order anything.

Thank you!

P1

P1s are consolidating the last 6 sounds taught so there is no set phonics homework this week.

Reading has begun this week for P1s. Please see letters sent home regarding this.

Maths will be sent home tomorrow and follows a similar pattern to last term!

P2s

Reading continues as normal. Please let me know of any Bugclub issues.

Phonics homework has gone home. P2s will be practising/learning a new digraph each week. They should write each sound in their jotter 3 times and then they can choose from the following: Write words using the digraph, draw/stick in pictures of things that have the digraph in, cut out words from newspapers/magazines using the digraph and stick in or anything else they come up with!! If they want to be more creative and write words or the digraph in lentils/shaving foam/rice etc please take pics and tag me in Twitter @MrsH_DP or email me faye.henstridge@highland.gov.uk

The P2s and I are coming up with some different numeracy activities for homework (pupil voice!!) so hopefully this will be ready for next week! 🙂

Please get in touch if you have any questions! 🙂

What a fun day we had today taking part in lots of halloween themed activities.

In soft start there was some spooky sensory activities and some painting.

In the afternoon our buddies had planned some Halloween fun for us. There was some science experiments, face painting, douking for apples, crafts and spooky maths problems. A great time was had by all! Thank you P7s!