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. 

Our Remembrance Day display is complete!

Christmas is certainly in the air at Moy Regional these days!

We had a visit from Colin Tinsley with his Christmas special and our craftwork is well underway.

Christmas has been a very special time of year for the children in Primary 1 and 2. We have been helping Santa get the toys ready in his workshop, sending cards to the North Pole, decorating the tree and enjoying sensory play in our ‘snow’! We also have been investigating the shape of the upper case alphabet using our magnetic counters. Each day we have also enjoyed opening our advent calendar and playing the games on the IWB. We have also been busy creating our Christmas artwork and wall displays, which we have linked to our numeracy topic of 2D shape. 

We hope you enjoy these videos of us in action!

Here we proudly displaying our seasonal craftwork! 

We thoroughly enjoyed our end of term trip to Peter Pan’s Neverland with our friends in P3 and 4.  Click on the images above to see how much fun we had! 

On the last day of school before our holidays we had stories read by some of our friends in KS2, enjoyed some party games and delicious buns brought in by Amy

We finished the day with some balloon fun! 

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Primary 2 have been working on alphabet sequence using both upper and lower case letters.

Primary 2 have been using the ‘Loo, Cover, Say, Write, Check’ game on the interactive whiteboard to practise their spellings.

Primary have been practising letter formation using wet

paintbrushes.

P.2 have been working on the ‘finding all possibilities’ aspect of problem solving where they investigated the various colour combinations that could be made with 2 and 3 colours.

We are developing our counting skills as we focus on the numbers 8 and 9, by threading Cheerios and making the correct number of legs on our spiders.

Can you guess the nursery rhyme we have been thinking about this week? We are using plasters to get this character back together again!

We have been taking part in lots of practical activities within our measures topic. We have compared and ordered the heights and lengths of objects and even made our own stick people. We used non standard units to measure them and finished off by using our rulers to find out the lengths of the legs on our spiders! 

We had great fun making a really tall tower for Rapunzel using the Giant Polydron. We even tested out how it felt to be inside it! 

Love is in the air! Here we are busy at work on our Valentine cards.

We have been thinking about the story of Noah’s Ark. We worked together to build an impressive ark and then we all squeezed in and pretended to be different animals.

We had a visit by Amy from Sustrans, who helped us realise the importance of dressing brightly when we were out and about on the roads so that traffic could see us easily. We thought about the colours that could be seen best by drivers and learned about fluorescent and reflective colours. Then we made our own figures and dressed them in brightly coloured clothing. Thank you Amy for raising awareness of this important topic and helping us ‘ Be Safe and Be Seen’.

We all enjoyed another ‘Food Friday’ recently where the children had the opportunity to sample a range of vegetables. We are glad to report that P.1 and P.2 love their healthy snacks!

Our numeracy topic has been 3D shape. Within this we have matched, sorted, compared and gained confidence in naming 3D shapes and their properties. We went on a 3D shape hunt around the school and used everyday 3D objects to create our shape models. 

As usual we celebrated Pancake Day by enjoying the pancakes we made! 

We have been learning about the life cycle of the butterfly using ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ story as our starting point. We enjoyed watching our ‘napkin’ caterpillars grow as they absorbed the water droplets and we ‘nibbled’ the correct number of holes in the leaves using our hole punches. 

We have been very much enjoying taking part in our Spring themed play activities where we have investigated our sensory frog spawn slime, helped to free the animals from their ‘ice eggs’ and used a torch to find out the names of all the oviparous animals that hatch from an egg.

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In Primary 1 and 2 we have been focussing on developing our rhyming skills and have enjoyed listening to the story ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ by Dr Seuss. We decided that we should try to make some green eggs and ham and taste it for ourselves. We thought about the ingredients we would need and everyone joined in to help. We were very impressed by the chopping, stirring and egg cracking skills shown by the children. We took part in the shared writing of the recipe and then came the best part the tasting! Everyone gave it a try and then decided whether it was to their taste or not! As you can see, it was eagerly scoffed by most, with only a couple of children not being so sure! Thank you to all our little helpers for their willingness to participate. 

If your children have come home with a mysterious rash this week, don’t worry, we have been busy bubble painting in P.1 and 2! 

Our Mother's Day makes are complete! We hope all our Mums enjoy a relaxing day! 

So today our learning took us outdoors to take part in a challenge to see which group could make the tallest beanstalk. We searched for sticks and organised them end to end, adding the leaves in the correct sequence. Great cooperation with some children using the thickest sticks for the base of the trunk. Super thinking! 

As Easter creeps up on us, our thoughts have turned to chicks and bunnies. We have been creating our own chicks and developing early concepts of area by filling in the space within our bunny outlines using stickers. We also experimented to see how tall a tower we could make using eggs held together with play dough. Some children realised that a broader base would help their structure become more stable. 

We have been filled with wonder at the way birds are able to make their nests as we watched videos taken by one of our parents of nest building in action. We even had a go at making our own nests. We also tried to decorate our eggs using ‘volcano paint!’ 

Now for some creativity as the children used loose parts to decorate their egg shapes.

We have also been busy taking part in some Spring planting as well as getting our wildflower bed ready with some help from the ‘Stay and Play’ club. 

In numeracy we have been working on handling data. We counted the number of jelly beans and Smarties of each colour to compile our chart. We practising making tally charts and recorded the favourite baby animals of the children in P.3 and 4. When we had gathered the information we used the computer to create a chart and talked about what it showed. 

As part of our topic of ‘Growth and Change’ P.1 planted cress seeds. We watered them every day and they grew really well. We tasted the cress in some cress sandwiches where we practised buttering and cutting our bread. 

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