Welcome to First Level Curriculum Evening

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

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

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

4. 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

5. 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.

6. Example of spelling sound list in P4 …

7. Stockbridge Counts Counting forwards and backwards ‘A Rainbow of Numeracy Skills’ 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

8. 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

9. 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 .

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

11. 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

12. 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.

14. 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)

15. Thank you for listening! We look forward to meeting you at our Open Morning on Friday 13th from 8.30am to 8.55am.