Workshop for P1 parents Wednesday 9th September 2015

 To look at an example of a typical day in Primary 1  To share our new approach to literacy in Primary 1  To highlight the key aspects of learning in numeracy and share some examples of numeracy activities  To give parents / carers the opportunity to explore key resources and ask questions

 Head Teacher – Ms Annika Jansson  Depute Head Teacher – Miss Fiona Kelly P1 Team  Mrs Anna Howitt  Mrs Liz Amphlett  Mrs Beth Rodgers  PSA : Ms Anne Laing  Early Years Practitioner Support throughout the day.

 Soft Start Play in P1 is a timetabled part of the day. Every child has an opportunity to learn through play within the day. It is not just used as an activity for quick finishers, but a valuable part of the school experience.

 Short inputs to differentiated groups in Literacy and Numeracy,  IDL related lessons, singing games, circle time.  Story Time Daily opportunities to hear stories  Stations Time to reinforce and extend learning in key areas. Range of experiences provided for children to try. Variety of independent, small group, adult led; ICT included.  Self Assessment Children encouraged to think about their learning and feedback to adults on progress.

Affective development: self-confidence self-esteem anxiety reduction Social development: cooperation sharing turn-taking conflict resolution leadership skill development (control of impulses and aggressive behaviour) Physical development: gross motor experiences fine motor experiences physical challenges self-help skills Attentional development: attention regulation concentration persistence Cognitive development: creativity abstract thinking imagination problem-solving social cognition, empathy, perspective-taking mastering new concepts Language development: communication skills vocabulary story telling emergent literacy

 Listening and attention  Auditory discrimination  Visual and auditory memory  Word boundaries  Rhyme awareness and detection  Syllable blending  Syllable detection  Rhyme production  Onset rime  Sound discrimination  Alliteration detection  Sound blending  Sound segmentation

Literacy : Talking and listening, rhyme, hearing sounds, listening to stories, predictions and use of imagination. Foundation for reading and writing Synthetic phonics methods – children learn how to use the letter sounds to read and write words. 42 main sounds in English language Children will be taught these at a pace appropriate the them. Tricky words taught alongside

 1. Learning the letter sounds  2. Learning letter formation  3. Blending  4. Identifying sounds in words  5. Spelling the tricky words

Speedy Sounds

 Opportunities to practise 5 key skills  Indoors and Outdoors  Engaging and motivating  Opportunities to consolidate or extend learning

 As soon as the first 6 sounds are known, children can start to build words on their own.

 Encourage writing in all contexts. Have a go.  Letter formation.  More formal writing lessons. Expose to different types of writing e.g. personal, functional, imaginative, news items, list, letter, report.  Common words.

 “Having a go” As long as SOUND is correct, spelling is taken as correct at this stage eg plai (play) flie (fly) mee (me)  First skill is being able to HEAR the sounds in a word. Do lots of practice clapping out SOUNDS s-a-t ch-a-t  NB catch = c-a-ch (Silent t)

 Biff, Chip and Kipper  Familiar situations  Stg 1 Wordless Books  Children progress at different rates  Supplemented with other texts.

 4 sessions in class on same book  Adult led discussion and practice, range of follow up activities.  Books sent home after October.  Key words and context words

 Counting aloud  Understanding the concepts more or less  Understanding the concept of zero  Displaying numbers in different ways  Simple addition and subtraction Mental Maths

 Short inputs to whole class or to groups.  Numeracy can be taught through stories and rhyme: Focused Teaching

E Books ….

Associating number with a quantity

Subitising

Number sequencing……

5 and 10 frames

Addition and Subtraction

Numicon

Rekenrek

 Concept of zero  Associating number with quantities  Subitising  Order of number  Odd and even numbers  Grouping and sharing  A whole and parts  Concept of patterns in number  Early work on addition and subtraction – LOTS of mental calculations and talking about number Key Skills… Areas such as shape, time, money and data will be explored but big emphasis on basic number skills at this stage.  Indoors, outdoors, links to ICT  Lots of reinforcement through play  Numbers all around