Transcript Welcome to Primary 1 - Rosewell Primary School

Welcome to Primary 1
2010-2011
What do we do in P1?
•Soft start
•Literacy
•Number work and maths
•Topic and interdisciplinary learning
•Art, music, drama, PE, circle time, RME
•Work with the nursery in the Early Level
Soft start - why we do we do it and what are the
benefits?
•Children feel at ease when transitioning from nursery to P1.
•Children have a chance to apply their new knowledge and skills in a
free environment.
•Children feel relaxed, calm and ready to start to the day.
•Children have a chance to play socially with their peers.
•Children have to make their own choices and decisions.
Literacy
•We learn the sounds in
actions,
Jolly Phonics using
songs and characters to help us.
•We practice writing the letters and saying their sound using multi sensory
approaches.
•We use the letters we have learned to build words and blend the sounds together.
•We learn tricky words that cannot be ‘sounded out’.
Active Literacy
We work in groups and move round stations
Writing letters in shaving
foam
Tracing and writing the sound
on laminates and white
boards.
Writing rainbow letters with
coloured pens
Writing our new sound and
drawing pictures that start
with that sound
Making letters with playdough
Writing letters in the sand
Playing matching and bingo
games.
Painting the letter
Literacy
Applying out new knowledge
Free writing with a purpose
Building words on magnetic
boards
Writing sentences
Playing games on
EducationCity
Building words and blending
with sound cards
Literacy - Reading
•Big books and daily stories – look at purposes and features of print.
•Introduce reading books when we know all the sounds of the alphabet and
have learned some ‘tricky words’.
•Introduce ORT characters and stage 1 picture books.
•Progress with reading books at own pace.
Literacy
At home
•Make words with sound cards.
•Practise recognising and spelling tricky words.
•Look for words around you – environmental print.
•Play games which require talking and turn taking.
• Read books, magazines, stories
- read to children showing the direction and features of print.
- Look for the tricky words
- sound out some words
- look for sentences with capital letters and full stops.
Numeracy
•We have been learning about...
- sorting and matching
- shapes and patterns
- number formation and counting to 10
•We use active approaches just like in literacy.
•Next, we will be learning about addition.
Using and naming 2D shapes,
making pictures with plastic
shapes
Sorting and matching by size
and colour using compare
bears
Human number line – looking at number
formation and position
Number bingo – recognising
numbers and counting objects
Active numeracy
and maths
Squashy numbers – matching
objects to numerals
Number games – counting,
matching, sharing and cooperating.
Topics
Term 1
Aug – Oct
Term 2
Oct – Dec
Health and
Wellbeing
Eco Schools
Keeping myself safe
Social Subjects
Around Our School
Myself and my family
Science
RME
Term 3
Jan – March
Healthy Living
Science week &
Materials we use
Values & Issues:
Caring and sharing People
who help us
Beliefs:
Christianity
Christmas, nativity
World religions
Births – related to social
subjects and Jesus' birth.
Term 4
April - June
Celebrations:
•Divali
•Chinese new year
•Spring/new life
•Easter
Living things minibeasts
Stories from world
religions
•Bible stories
•Stories from other
religions.
*Topics are flexible and may change depending on the interests of the class or any global events that are affecting our
lives.
Topics are taught in an interdisciplinary way incorporating any appropriate subjects – eg writing and art may be topic
based.
Homework
•Sound sheets and using word cards for building & blending words and playing
games (see leaflet)
•Tricky word practice – spelling & recognition
•Reading
•Maths once a week (once we have introduced all the sounds)
•Topic related homework – occasionally
Partnership with Parents
•Skills or expertise that you could contribute to our class or
school?
•Help out with literacy or maths - working with a group of
children at a station.
•We are hoping to arrange shared finish and drop in.
Questions