1. Meet the Teacher Primary 3S with Miss Stewart
Thank you for coming!
Your support is greatly appreciated! 

2. Meet the Teacher Sharing of class routines, information
Expectations for the year ahead
Parents/Carers as Partners in Learning – What can you do to help your child?

3. Team Around Your Child Specialists
PE – Miss Fullar
Music- Mrs Brockie
French – Mrs Scobbie
Support for Learning Teacher – Mrs Noble
Support for Learning Assistants
Mrs Faulds

4. Team Around Your Child And of course, You! 
Parents and carers as partners in learning. You know your child best, and we value your support greatly!
Homework diary
Please inform children if you have written a note so that
they can share it with me in the morning
Questions, sharing of information or request a meeting
Mornings – responsibility to look after the class so unable to talk at the door (use diary or request meeting via Miss Johnston at the office).
School phone number –
Please write a note in diary to inform school of reason for absences as well as contacting the school office on the day of absence

5. Class Routines Know ‘n’ Grow –
Settling in, building relationships, learning through play
Weekly Learning Partner
Timetable – will be shared in homework diary to help you prepare your child for school each day
Thursday -PE with Miss Fullar
Wednesday - Music with Mrs Brockie
Wednesday- library session
Wednesday- French with Mrs Scobbie
Friday - PE with Miss Stewart, fortnightly assembly and fortnightly visit to school library

6. Behaviour, Responsibilities & Rewards
Living Our Values - Respect, Trust, Courage, Tolerance, Justice, Happiness, Caring, Hope, Love & Peace
Star of The Week
Class rules
Be nice, role the dice, Secret Student, stickers, praise, stamps in diaries
Our Partnership: How can you help?
signing/responding to comments
talking to your child
Inform us of anything that could impact child’s behaviour

7. Restorative Practices
Its about ‘justice for all’
Whole school approach by all staff and pupils
RESPECT – for everybody by listening to opinions of others
RESPONSIBILITY – for your own actions
REPAIR – identifying what went wrong and ensuring it won’t happen again
What happened?
Who has been affected?
How can we find a way forward?
How can we do things differently in the future?
Takes time but it’s worth it!

8. Forth Avon Carron Tay Houses Identity House points House badges
House events
Monday Meetings (once a month)
Rewards – termly and end-of-year
Captains
Inter house activities – talent shows, quizzes, sports

9. Uniform & Kits Children looking great! Labelling PLEASE
PE kit (Thursday and Friday)
Shorts/jogging trousers
T shirt/polo shirt
gym shoes
remove jewellery before school please
no earrings (tape if unavoidable)
Gym bag (changing rooms)

10. Food & Drink for School Breakfast Water in class Healthy Play pieces
Essential! Impacts greatly on your child’s learning.
Water in class
Clean and refreshed water bottle daily – only water in the bottle –no juice or flavoured water please
Healthy Play pieces
Small, healthy snack at playtime – 15 minutes to eat, play and go to the toilet
School Lunches. Free for P1-3. Lunch menus were sent home last week.

11. A Curriculum for Excellence
Children aiming to be working within first Level (P2-P4)
consultation with pupils at planning stage
- child-led learning
Varied Approaches:
Active Learning
Outdoor Learning
Cooperative Learning
ICT
Formative Assessment (self & peer assessment)
Transferring learning across the curriculum
Interdisciplinary Learning- child led topics.

12. Literacy Reading Bug Club home and in school
Range of reading skills, e,g. prediction, questioning, main ideas, main events, inference, metalinguistics, summarising
Reading for Enjoyment
Library- children have access to classroom and school library.
Story time
Spelling
Active Literacy approach – mixture of active and written spelling tasks

13. Literacy Talking & Listening Big Writing Word Aware approach
Daily literacy lessons building up to a writing lesson on Thursday.
If you can Talk It, you can Write It!
Word Aware approach
Range of genres and writing skills
Handwriting – daily
Spelling- daily
Talking & Listening
Talking Partners
Show ‘n’ Tell – topic related
Talking Homework

14. Numeracy Heinemann Active Maths – at home and in school
White boards with partners
ICT activities and games
Jotter work
Games
Maths Vocabulary
Concrete materials as well as abstract thinking
Daily Maths Blast
Big Maths Beat That

15. Homework Reading Homework – Bug Club Active Learn Education City
Skills Homework Grid – Higher Order Thinking Skills

16. Transferable Skills Homework Grid
Piloted in upper school 2 years ago and continued following positive response from children and families, with request from parents/carers to carry over to younger children too
Piloting up to Christmas and will be looking for feedback as well as any ideas from families to add to our skills grid
Responsibility of families to choose when to do it so can fit into family’s lifestyle/work schedules etc.
No need to hand into class, although children provided with opportunities to share experiences in class or via Twitter

17. Transferable Skills Homework Grid
Grid has a mixture of learning activities covering all of the Higher Order Thinking skills, however feel free to add your own to suit your child’s / family’s interests
Learning is shared on Twitter, so there is an option to link home learning with class topics
Please ask for guidance on how to challenge or support your child if needed
Wide range of learning experiences that you can do as a family
Homework jotter is provided
Additional learning activities may be provided if your child needs supported or challenged on learning they are doing in class
This can be by your request or your child’s as well as teacher

18. Family time Time for your child to share their learning.
Friday 28th September, Forth and Avon - 2pm until 2.45pm
Monday 1st October, Carron and Tay - 2pm until 2.45pm
Both days, doors open 1:30pm for a Bug Club workshop in the assembly hall.
Please remember to sign in on arrival to class
2 adults per child please.
Your child will be happy to see you!
Dates in dairy for future family times.

19. Parent/Carer Evenings
Snap Shot Week
Children will complete a selection of work in the Snap Shot jotter over the course of the week.
Children will bring jotters home to share their learning.
Please give your child feedback and sign the jotter before sending it back to school.
Helps to keep you up to date with your child’s progress, and provides an opportunity for child to receive feedback from their family.
Parent/Carer Evenings
Twice a year, November and March
Reports, June
Form 4 Meetings throughout the year, first in September

20. Glossary of Useful Terms for P3
phonics – name for the learning of “sounds”
phoneme – a single unit of sound, e.g. ‘c’ in cat.
letter/phoneme sound – the sound the letter makes, e.g. ‘a’ as in ant
letter name – its alphabet name, e.g. a as in ape
grapheme – the written letter
the ‘write hand’ – the method of saying the word, breaking the word into its phonemes, making the word using magnetic letters, blending the letters together then reading quickly as a single word before writing the word down.
blending – stretching out each individual sound so that it almost runs into the next, e.g. c-a-t = cat.
number bond - two numbers that go together to make another number, e.g. 6+4=10 (this is called a ‘number bond of 10’)

21. Thank you once again for your support
Thank you once again for your support. I look forward to working with you and your child in the year ahead! 