First Level Curriculum Evening Overview for Parents

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Welcome to the first level curriculum evening for parents of Mrs. Christine Hagart's P3 and Miss Laura Ferguson's P4 classes. The evening covers general information, curriculum overview including literacy and numeracy skills, and details on spelling, numeracy skills, assessment, and reporting. Parents will gain insight into teaching methods, homework expectations, and additional information related to their child's education.

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Welcome to First Level Curriculum Evening Mrs Christine Hagart (P3) Miss Laura Ferguson (P4)

General Information School day; 8:55-3:20pm Fridays; 8:55-12:30pm P.E. Days are on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays

Curriculum Evening Overview Literacy Maths Health and Wellbeing Assessment and Reporting Home learning Additional Information

Literacy Writing, reading, listening and talking skills are taught through IDL topic work Different writing genres: Letter, instructions, account, poetry, imaginative etc. - novel studies - Independent comprehension tasks - Buddy reading, teacher led questioning These will be differentiated accordingly

What will Spelling look like? We will follow our school progressive spelling policy. On a Monday the teacher will introduce the sound for the week. The children will have a differentiated spelling list but they will all learn the same spelling pattern. Over the week they will have the opportunity to practise the spelling pattern using multi- sensory teaching strategies. In addition to these, we also practise common words. P2/3 are following literacy rich.

Example of spelling sound list in P4 Weekly Focus:- ch for /k/ Support ache chaos choir chord chorus echo school anchor Core anchor chemist Christmas orchid scheme school stomach technical Challenge architect character chemistry cholera mechanic monarch orchestra technology

Stockbridge Counts A Rainbow of Numeracy Skills Counting forwards and backwards Number recognition Number after and before Combining and partitioning numbers & place value Sequencing and ordering; number lines; equivalences Multiplication and division; fractions, decimal fractions and percentages; ratio and proportion Addition and subtraction

Numeracy and Maths We follow a skills progression based on the Curriculum for Excellence Benchmarks. Core numeracy skills children are expected to have in first level. SEAL: 5 key strands in number - Sequence and order numbers to 1000 - Round whole numbers to the nearest 10 and 100 - Use place value to partition 3 digit numbers into H T U - Addition & Subtraction - Multiplication & Division

Wider Achievements and Opportunities Weekly achievements are recognised at assembly. Each class has 2 pupil Council class reps We would love to hear about any achievements outside of school on the OLLJs or shared through homework. P4 swimming will start on Wednesday 23rd October. P3 (May) and P4 (Feb) will have BATS rugby taster sessions later in the year .

Assessment Strategies Across the Curriculum Why use a range of strategies? Self Assessment Peer Assessment Verbal Assessment Teacher Assessment

Reporting We are using Online Learning Journals to report to you on your child s progress. We also use OLLJs to share learning activities undertaken in class. There will be a minimum number of comments per term which will be set out in our Reporting Policy Parent Consultations will be held twice a year

Home School Learning in P2-4 A home learning wall will be sent home each term. Spelling pattern and word lists will be given to parents and are published on the school website. Spelling tasks will be included in the home learning wall. All children will be asked to complete a long term project linked to a topic in class once or twice a year. They will be given a deadline for completion and the sharing of this learning. By the end of each term, aim to complete at least one box from each coloured section. All home learning journals should be brought into school on a MONDAY.

Additional information Parent helpers for trips liaise with class reps Parent experts Parent Pay (no cash) Medication In-service days -21st and 22nd of October -7th and 8th January -4th May 8th May (Holiday)