William Pinkerton Memorial Primary School
PRIMARY 1
CLASS OF 2023-2024
Class Teacher: Mrs A Black
Class Assistants: Louisa McGoogan & Lauren Anderson
Mrs A Black Louisa Lauren
Welcome to Primary 1! Our class this year has 9 girls and 8 boys. We are looking forward to having lots of fun and learning lots of new things. 🙂
In Numeracy, we will be learning about:
- Number
- Money
- Measures - Length, weight, capacity, time, area
- Shape and Space - 2D & 3D shape, pattern, position, direction
- Data Handling- sorting, data collection, representation
In Literacy, we will be developing our skills in:
- Phonological Awareness
- Phonics
- Talking and Listening
- Reading
- Writing
This year, our World Around Us topics include:
- You and Me
- Into the Woods
- Superheroes
- Let's Move
- Where My Wellies Take Me
Our first half term in Primary 1 has been so busy!
In Literacy, we have been learning all about phonological awareness, listening to sounds in our environment and making sounds using our own bodies as well as learning about rhythm and rhyme. We have been learning to write our own names and developing our fine motor skills through lots of different activities.
We have been:
- threading
- cutting
- manipulating playdough
- enjoying finger gym
- practising holding a pencil correctly
- 'writing' and drawing in our busy books
In Numeracy, we have been practising our counting, learning about 0ne-to-one correspondence and we have started leatning about the numbers 0-5. We love to practise our numbers and counting using a variety of engaging activities.
We have been:
- decorating numbers
- making our numbers with playdough
- counting using cubes, bears, stackers, etc.
- counting using different songs and actions.
- using the numicon to help us learn the value of number
We listened to a story about Zero the Hero, watched Count with Rodd and made Two Little Dickie birds. We have been learning all about 2D shapes and one of our favourite songs is on BBC Bitesize https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElQoMOCJw8w We also learned how to sort according to colour, shape and size.
In World Around Us our first topic was You and Me.
We have: