1. Corstorphine Primary School
Meet the Teacher
September P3A – Sarah McCullough P3B – Marita Lofthouse
P3C – Holly Grant

2. Literacy- Reading
At least 3 reading sessions per week: Reading independently or in pairs, teacher-led session, follow up task
Children will not take books home and are encouraged to read books of their own choice during ERIC time and at home.
Pupils working on the Read, Write, Inc programme will also be included in group work with their classmates. SM

3. Literacy - Spelling/Handwriting
Patterns / rules, common words (word walls), topic words, personal words - entered into a personal jotter
Handwriting – cursive joins
Listening and Talking SM
Individual presentations will be carried out at some point later in the year
Asking and answering questions
Partner work
Co-operative group work
Individual presentations

4. Literacy - Writing
Variety of genres: poster, letter, story, personal account, imagined personal response, poetry, instructions, newspaper article
V – Vocabulary (nouns, verbs and adjectives)
C – Connectives (making compound sentences)
O – Openers (using a variety)
P – Punctuation (? ! , “” ‘) SM
*Mention correction of spelling words within pieces of writing etc

5. SEAL – Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning Structured and progressive approach to the teaching of numeracy. Emphasis is on pupils ability to discuss a variety of mental strategies and to explain which they used and why. Pupils will develop their knowledge of: - number sequences - numerals - strategies for counting on and back/addition and subtraction - number structures and equal groups and sharing/multiplication and division. HG
The children will continue to learn about the numeracy aspects of Maths through SEAL as they did in Primary 1 and 2. We will look at developing and challenging these (point) skills which the children have already looked at in previous years. By the end of P3 we will be asking the children to know their 2, 10, 5 and 3 times table in preparation for P4 but it will be introduced to them throughout the course of P3 in various ways.

6. Maths - First Level
Shape Position and Movement – 2D and 3D shapes, symmetry, grid references
Data handling - tallies, tables, bar graphs, Carroll and Venn diagrams
Time – focus on quarter to and quarter past
Measure - metres, centimetres, kilograms
Fractions – halves, quarters and tenths
Problem Solving – applying maths skills across the curriculum HG
Other areas of Maths will be covered too, but not as a part of SEAL. These lessons will take various different forms and will include outdoor learning, written work and applying skills to problems and real life situations.

7. Health and Wellbeing
Mental, Social and Emotional wellbeing – Building Resilience resource, bubble box, circle time
Physical wellbeing
PE - fitness, ball skills, dance, game skills and game creation, gymnastics and athletics
We have P.E. on Wednesdays (all), Thursdays (P3B and C) and Fridays (P3A). Please remember Gym Kits every week. We will send them home at the end of each term. HG
Our new health and well-being resource is called Building Resilience. It covers all sections of the mental, social and emotional aspects of the H&W-B curriculum. This will be the basis for the majority of our H&W-B lessons as well as covering Road Safety, What to do in emergencies, Food safety and a few other topics.
The classes will also continue to have two PE lessons a week – one with Mrs Gillies and one with their class teacher. You can note the days your child has PE here (point to red part) and they are also on the Termly overview sheets which you can pick up at the end.

8. Social Subjects – TERM 1: Caring for Our Environment
TERM 2: Children Around the World
TERM 3: Corstorphine; Then and Now
TERM 4: Farming in Scotland and Around the World HG
These are our topics this year which will incorporate many other areas of the curriculum besides Social Subjects.
Just ask you to note the comments at the bottom – if anyone is willing to help us with any of our topic, has an relevant photos or expertise, then please just get in touch with your child’s teacher.
Parental Input!
Term 2 : If anyone has experience of living in a different country and would like to come in and speak to the class…
Term 3: If anyone has any old photos of Edinburgh or Corstorphine…
please let us know!

9. Science and Technology
Science Topics:
Sound Vibrations
Sun and the Moon
Dissolving
Growing Plants
Technology:
Model making
Food technology
I.C.T – word-processing; visual and audio recording; Internet Safety
ML – These are our science and technology areas – you may have had a kazoo come home recently – that is linked to the topic of vibrations. So over the year the children will learn about…
And our other areas that are covered are music, drama, art. RME, French and our creative hub – tomorrow we are going to be making models so if you have any recycling please send it along for tomorrow!
Other Areas:
Expressive Arts – music, drama, art
RME, French, Creative hub

10. Homework Weekly tasks: Spelling activity – Owl booklet Maths task
Reading for enjoyment
Recommended time: minutes per evening or minutes per week. Not including reading Please check and sign it each week Stop if you reach the recommended time and let us know of any difficulties.
ML – Hopefully you would have seen the homework jotters that came home this week – and last week a little booklet of spelling activities with an owl on the front – we suggest that you do a few of those activities a week with their spelling words. We will be sending home a maths task but books don’t go home from school. Instead we encourage you to help your child choose a book to read for enjoyment each night. As you can see, our recommended times are minutes a night – but we understand that kids have lots of activities after school so do not feel that it is set in stone. Homework should fit around your child’s life.

11. Housekeeping Toileting Naming uniform Water bottles Dojo Points
ML – Please let your child’s teacher know if there are any toileting issues that you don’t think we are aware of. We encourage children to use their break times to use the toilet as going during class time can impact on their learning, but of course we know that in particular that afternoon slot is long.
Please put your child’s name on their uniform – it makes life easier for you and us! We can easily return items and children can find items much easier if they are named.
Water bottles should come full to school each day and go home each day – they are there for children to sip at through the day and can be refilled at school if needed
We all have class Dojo points in P3 – it is a shared reward system between the students and teachers and as such we are not asking for parents to connect to it at this time.

12. Typical day in P3 Register and good morning
Maths – creating an outdoor class Venn diagram with our bodies then drawing it in our jotters
Break
Reading – drawing a character’s reaction to a situation then writing a sentence to explain
French – revising colours through games
Lunch
Story and milk
H&W-B – discussion about what makes us happy or sad then drawing a picture to show this
Art – observational drawing of items in the park

13. Any questions? Thank you for listening!
Corstorphine Primary School
2017