Bushvalley Primary School

Welcome to Primary 1

Class Teacher: Miss C Stinson

Classroom Assistant: Mrs E McCooke

SEN Classroom Assistant: Mrs N Johnston

  Miss C Stinson     Mrs E McCooke        Mrs N Johnston                                

Welcome to P1

Primary 1 is a very busy classroom and all the children enjoy playing together, making friends and enjoyin our outdoors learning - Learning is great fun in P1!

Literacy

In Literacy, we have been learning through the theme ‘It’s Time to Rhyme.’ The children have been looking at lots of different nursery rhymes and completing activities around them.

We have:

•     Built a wall for humpty dumpty using waffle bricks and wooden blocks from our outdoor play equipment.
•     Completed fun role-play activities to act out our nursery rhymes.
•     Made a get well soon card for Humpty Dumpty.
•     Painted pictures of our nursery rhymes.
•     Sequenced our nursery rhymes.
•     Used music and song to help us with our rhyming words and syllables.

Shared Reading

     We are enjoying our Shared Reading time together and have been learning all about the adventures of Kipper, Biff, Chip, Mum, Dad and Floppy. Our favourite book so far is called ‘Look Out!'. Our favourite part of the story was when Kipper knocked down all of Mum's washing with his road ripper! 

    Writing

       In writing, we have been learning how to write our names, using correct upper-case and lower-case letters. As part of our task time activities, we have been:

•     Painting our names. 
•     Writing our names on the school playground with chalk. 
•     Using magnetic letters to make our names. 
•     Making a P1 name poster using paint sticks in the outdoor classroom. 

Numeracy

In Numeracy, we have been learning our numbers 1-10. We have completed some really fun activities and learnt a handy rhyme to help us with our number formation.

We have been:

•     Writing our numbers with chalk on our school playground.
•     Writing our numbers in sand.
•     Making our numbers using cheerios. 
•     Singing fun counting songs.
•     Using chalk to write our numbers on the playground. 
•     Making our numbers using play-dough. 
•     Using ICT games from Topmarks.

     We are also learning about 2D shapes. So far, we have met Suzy Circle, Sammy Square, Tracey Triangle and Ricky Rectangle!

 During our Task Time activities, we have been:

•     Making shapes using lollipop sticks. 
•     Using ICT games from Topmarks. 
•     Playing a ‘sort the presents’ shape game.
•     Making lovely shape pictures.
•     Sorting shapes.
•     Matching shapes using carpet tiles outside in our playground.
•     Going on a shape hunt around our school.

Play-Based Learning

We love our daily sessions of Play-Based Learning both inside and outside of the classroom environment. Have a look at how much fun we have!