P1 Summer is Here!

May-June

It’s hard to believe that we’ve reached the Summer Term of Primary One! This term is always action-packed, so make sure you keep a look out for any notes home informing you of upcoming events.

Our theme for this term is “Once Upon a Time”. We will be enjoying some much-loved fairytales with your child and having lots of fun with these!

Once Upon a Time…

Our new theme is “Once Upon a Time”. We will be learning some of the traditional fairytales. Many important Literacy, Numeracy and World Around Us concepts can be taught through these. Of course, they are also lots of fun and very appealing for young children!

Enjoy the fairytales! Why not try out these fun ideas?

We’re sure your child would love to act out some of the fairytales – with a little imagination, you can quickly find some props and “costumes” – a lightweight scarf around the shoulders would make a simple Princess dress, and your child could decorate a cardboard crown. For the boys, they could make some chain mail from tinfoil and have a cardboard sword as they pretend to be a handsome Prince?

 Get Crafty!

Could your child design and make a fairytale castle out of cardboard boxes? This could provide hours of playtime fun!

We love Literacy!

 We are really pleased with the progress the children have made with their reading throughout the year.

We will be looking at punctuation in the reading books over the next few weeks. Check your child understands the following symbols:

.  –   full stop

?        –     question mark

!        –     exclamation mark

 Mad about Maths

We will be learning to tell the time – we need to make sure Cinderella leaves the ball by 12 o’clock midnight!!

We will only be focusing on o’clock times. You could help your child learn to tell the time by talking about what they do at various times during the day (e.g. school starts at 9 o’clock) and by pointing out o’clock times on the clock.

 And finally…

Your child has worked hard throughout the year in Primary One, we have enjoyed teaching them and getting to know you too.

Keep practising reading, writing and number work over the Summer months to help them get off to a good start in Primary Two! Best wishes!