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

2. 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)

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

7. 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

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

12. 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.

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

14. 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.

15. 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

16. 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.

17. Primary Two Curriculum Meeting September 2017
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