Year Ahead

1. Mrs Laura McKay

2. Other Adults in P3
 Specialists
 PE – Miss Brogan Power
 Music- Mrs Helen Thom
 Art- Miss Lauren Cairns
 Support for Learning Teacher – Mrs Margaret Noble
 Support for Learning Assistants –
 Mrs Lagan

3. Class Routines
 Know ‘n’ Grow –
 settling in, time to talk to children, opportunities for learning,
Signposting, feelings, GIRFEC
 Morning organisation -
 Homework Diaries – notes/forms
 Dinners – bands, packed lunches
 Lunch Time –
 self organisation, handwashing, toilets, no return during lunch
 Home Time -
 bag packing, remembering items!
 Other…
 Lolly sticks, thumbs and traffic lights

4. School/Parent communication
 Homework diary
 If you need to speak to
someone in school –
phone/write/make an
appointment to come in
 Mornings & end of day –
quick questions
Homework Diary

5. Class Organisation
 Learning Organisation
 Whole class activities
 Group Task
 Following directed activities
 Seating
 Children have a different learning partner each week.
These change on a Monday using lolly sticks.
 Children’s trays – own items
 Class Responsibilities – library, jackets, packed lunches
etc

6. Behaviour, Responsibilities & Rewards
 Living Our Values – whole school
 Respect, Trust, Courage, Tolerance, Justice, Happiness,
Caring, Hope, Love & Peace
 Star of The Week
 one pupil each week with specific reason given
 focus on values and effort.
 Traffic Lights
 Our Partnership: How can you help?
 signing/responding to comments
 talking to your child
 Restorative Practice - ‘justice for all’
 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

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

9. Uniform & Kits
 Children looking great!
 Labelling PLEASE
 Full PE kit (Wednesdays & Thursdays)
 shorts
 T shirt/polo shirt
 gym shoes
 no earrings (tape if unavoidable)

10. Food & Drink for School
 Breakfast & Breakfast Club
 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 can spill
and go sticky.
 Healthy Playpieces
 Small healthy snack at playtime – fruit/veg,
biscuit, small packet of crisps, small piece of chocolate
and water/ milk, NO fizzy juice
 School Lunches. Free for P1-3
 New menu started.

11. A Curriculum for Excellence
 working within first Level (P2-P4)
 Clear Learning Intentions and Success Criteria shared with children
 consultation with pupils at planning stage
- child-led learning
 Varied Approaches:
 Active Learning,
 Outdoor Learning,
 Cooperative Learning,
 ICT
 Formative Assessment (self & peer assessment)
 Traditional

12. Reading
Reading
 vocabulary of books
 characters
 tools: sight vocabulary, picture clues, context, decoding skills (1st
letter, rhyme, syllables)
 Questioning, predicting, sequencing
 Summarising
 Answering questions
 library

13. Literacy
 Phonics
 North Lanarkshire Active Literacy Programme
 active approach
 aim for one new sound per week
 Lesson: letter name & sound, story on Power Point,
quiz, saying, making, blending and reading
 Activities: jotter activity – find the new sound in the
sound story, writing words in sentences, partner
dictation, rainbow writing, magnetic letters, drawing
pictures
Spelling
 Three or four common words per week
 Partner Spelling

14. Literacy
 Writing –
 Personal Writing – At the Weekend
 Handwriting - daily
 Spelling
 Grammatical Knowledge
 Report writing
 Big Writing (VCOP)
 Word Aware
 Talking & Listening
 Talking Partners – “knee-to-knee”
 Show ‘n’ Tell – topic related

15. Numeracy & Maths
 Counting
 Number recognition (for some children)
 Number bingo
 white boards with partners
 1,2,3…show me!
• Games
 Concrete materials
 Pattern Recognition
• Areas: Number, Shape, Position & Movement,
Information Handling, Money, Problem Solving
• Addition and Subtraction

16. P3 Homework
5 elements:
 common words
 Sound of the week - words
 reading
 number & maths
 General knowledge/Topic Homework

17. Attendance
 Time keeping is very good
 If your child is unwell or off as a result of an injury –
phone the school and let us know but also provide a
note, for our records, when your child returns to
school
 For appointments such as dentist/doctor you should
let us know the date and time in advance and it is
your duty to bring your child back to school
afterwards if possible

18. Family time
 Come along and join in with class activities.
There will be a different theme each month.
 Last Friday of each month from 2.15pm till
2.45pm
 Please enter and exit the building by the front
door and make sure you sign in and out (Health
& Safety)
 Your child will be happy to see you.

19. Snap Shot Week
 Children will complete all work in the snap shot jotter
over the course of the week.
 It will then be sent home for parents to see how their
children are progressing.
 Parents to sign the jotter and send it back to school so
that it can be used in the next snap shot week.
 Allows you to see how children are progressing and
some of the work that they are covering in class.

20. phonics – another 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’)
Glossary of Useful Terms for P3

21. Any questions?

22. And finally …
Please fill in the Evaluation Form and leave it in
the tray outside the classroom.
Your feedback and suggestions are important to us
and help us get it right for you and your child.
Many thanks!