St Mary’s Primary School Primary Two Curriculum Information September 2017

Aims Welcome to St Mary’s! Purpose of slide show to outline the Curriculum that your child will be following in P2. to provide an overview of some of the topics and activities that your child will be participating in this year (Learning Plan)

General Information Morning 8 – 8.45 Breakfast Club 8.45am – Children can come into school playground 9.15 – Bell for beginning of classes After 9.15 am – marked late Afternoon Finish at 2:00 - parents come into front yard and wait for teacher to bring child to the door.

General Information Fruit snack- money will be collected termly each child will be provided with an envelope with their name on it – this must be returned to the teacher (not the office) - £20 for the term – snack money is used for many purposes within the class Dinners – Currently £2.60 per day, (in envelopes on Monday/Friday only) Breakfast Club – £1 per morning; Minding club £1 every afternoon from 2-3 Uniform - full uniform should be worn at all times. PE – Wednesday – PE uniform to be worn. Library day - Friday After School Activities – have been provided to children.

Learning Areas Literacy Numeracy The World Around Us (Geography/History/Science) The Arts (Music/Art/Drama) Physical Education Personal Development and Mutual Understanding Religion

Skills and Capabilities Thinking Skills – Managing Information, Problem Solving and Decision Making, Being Creative. Personal Skills and Capabilities – Self Management, Working with Others Through all curriculum areas ICT will be delivered through all curriculum areas.

Assessment for Learning Sharing Learning Intentions (WALT We Are Learning To and WILF What I’m Looking For) Focusing on an aspect of our work or working on an individual area of improvement

PDMU Concentrates on developing children’s knowledge, attitudes, skills, relationships, behaviour, TSPC, emotional awareness, values and life skills. Living Learning Together Box

Linguistic Phonics Whole school programme Children should understand the relationship between their spoken language and the written word. Start of the year the focus will be on High Frequency words and then moving onto explore a particular sound each week. As the first term progresses, the children will be given a little spelling list on Monday. It is vital that the children work on spellings every night.

Reading Reading - Guided Reading, Shared Reading, Silent Reading, Modelled Reading Running Records - Book Banding Scheme Develop comprehension skills and answering in full sentences. Library Books – change once a week. Library day is Friday, books to be returned then. Important to develop a child’s interest in reading Relaxing Readers – encourage child to read for enjoyment and to regularly change their Relaxing Reader. Reading activities in classroom. Preparation of reading at home Read a range of materials LexiaCore5 program is part of the Literacy curriculum details will follow shortly.

Writing Variety of forms studied Poetry Punctuation – capital letters and full stops Handwriting Various programs on computer – Word/2Simple Toolkit/Read&Write, etc.

Maths Number Counting on and counting back up to and beyond 20 Counting on in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s Addition and Subtraction within 20 (building the foundations of place value) Measures, Handling Data, Shape and Space, Problem Solving Lots of practical and interactive activities.

Religion Grow In Love Programme Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter Saints Feast Days Assemblies Christmas Assembly Prayers Beginning and End of Year Mass

Homework Aim - to consolidate and reinforce the learning skills and knowledge that has gone on in school. Spellings, Reading, Maths, English, other activities related to class work 20 mins (to include reading and spelling) Important to check homework and sign reading record Homework will be given on a Monday for the whole week and folders will be collected on Friday Important – must do reading and spellings every night. Lexia Core5 – very important tool to aid reading, writing and spelling.

Reporting to Parents/Assessment Parent/Teacher meeting Friday 1st December Reports in June Newsletters Assessment Running records will be carried out each term or if required by teacher at any time Term 2 –MIST – Middle Infant Screening Test

Other Information Birthdays – invitations parent-to-parent Fundraising – various events will be organised through the year, your participation is greatly appreciated. Everything we raise will be either for a worth while charity or go directly to your child’s education. Car Parking – don’t park in bus lane or in front of the gates in case of emergency School Bus – application forms in office Free School Meals - application forms in office Contacts and Mobile phone numbers – Please keep up to date. Absence notes required on day your child returns to school after an absence.

Primary Two Curriculum Meeting September 2017 Thank you