Moy Regional Primary School

P1/2

A big welcome our new Primary One pupils. It is great to have you join our school family.

We look forward to catching up with our Primary Two pupils as well and to continuing our learning journey together.

The year got off to a great start with lots of opportunities to learn through play, both indoors and outside in the lovely Autumn sunshine.

Sorting was the first numeracy topic of the year. We had lots of opportunities to use our own ideas to make sets based on colour, size and shape, whilst giving reasons and explanations to demonstrate our understanding. Primary 2 also showed their ability to use Tree, Venn and Carroll diagrams in their learning.

Here we are discussing the things we like and recording our findings using intersecting sets on a Venn Diagram.

As part of our ‘All About Me’ topic work, Primary 2 used natural materials to create their ‘Forest Faces’.

We have been continuing to enjoy the lovely weather and taking our learning outdoors. P.2 have been consolidating number sequence and writing the numbers that come ‘before’ and ‘after’ on their clipboards. P.1 have been thinking about the concepts of the ‘same’, ‘different’ and ‘odd one out’ by matching the socks and hanging them on the clothes line.

Primary One have been continuing to develop their fine motor skills whilst thinking about colours, counting and having fun!

We have also been focussing on developing our listening skills by playing a range of percussion instruments and going on a listening walk.

We have been using counting rhymes and songs to develop our counting skills. Can you tell which rhymes we have been learning?

We also were celebrating Biff and Chip’s birthday by making cards and cakes!

Since we enjoyed our play dough birthday cake making so much we decided we would go a step further and have a toys party!

Primary 2 have been developing their understanding of taking away and have been writing the sum to match the problem.

Through lots of practical activities we have been developing the concept of pattern and have been making our own repeating designs.

We have been enjoying developing our learning through practical activities, games and rhymes.

Here we are demonstrating our concentration and fine motor skills as we make our ‘magic maize’ pictures.

We have been thinking about our sense of sight and looking at our reflection in a range of materials and recording our findings.

As part of our work on the senses we enjoyed tasting a range of different fruits, but maybe not the grapefruit judging by these faces!

Mild Autumn weather has meant that we have had lots of opportunity to develop our skills and creativity during our outdoor play sessions.

Primary One are getting ready for Halloween by painting their pumpkins to use in our rhymes around the campfire as part of our ‘Autumn Fun Week’.

Our Autumn Fun Week provided us with lots of opportunities to participate in seasonal learning activities across the curriculum. We created potions and perfumes, made edible owl treats to eat, took part in art activities, used natural materials to create repeating patterns and enjoyed the sensory experience of using our oobleck slime.

We had a great time dressing up on the last day of our Autumn Fun Week, with Brooklyn and Zhasmin picking up the prize for the best costumes.

We had a brilliant morning of learning when ‘The Amazing Journey’ came to visit and together we explored stories from the Bible.

We have been investigating the properties of 2D shapes and learning their names by making pictures and ‘shape pizzas’. We also sorted shapes using different criteria and made our own labels to show our thinking.

Our class have been making the most of the seasonality of autumn and learning about the world around us. We have been thinking about the different parts of a tree and the purpose of each. We made our own trees using natural materials and added labels.

We enjoyed looking at all the colours of the Autumn leaves as we made our leaf skewers.

Best of all was the fun leaf shower we had at the end!

As part of our thinking about Remembrance Day’ Primary 2 made poppy field paintings, whilst Primary One made the letter ‘p’ for ‘poppy’ from play dough.