Welcome to our P2 page!

Hello and welcome to P2! Our teachers are Mrs Thompson and Mrs McWhirter. Our classroom assistants are Mrs Halliday, Miss Anderson, Mrs McIlroy and Miss Todd.

What does your child need?

Please ensure your child has the following items each day:

- school bag

- a healthy break time snack

- lunch box or dinner money (paid on ParentPay)

- coat

- reading folder, book and reading record

- P.E. gutties (to be kept in school)

What will your child be doing this year?

Term 1

Our class theme until half term is “If you go down to the woods today…” During this time we will be looking at all sorts of things to do with Autumn, trees, weather, The Gruffalo, woodland animals and looking after our environment. We participate in four weeks of PE sessions with Coaching for Christ which the children really look forward to. After half term break, our topic changes to ‘In the Toybox’ which links particularly well as we write Santa lists and look forward to Christmas. The children work extremely hard during this half term to prepare the Christmas Nativity show which is always a highlight of the year!

Term 2

We begin term 2 with an exciting trip to the cinema. This term our new topic is “Long, long ago…Dinosaurs” - learning dinosaurs names, what they look like, what they like to eat and all sorts of other interesting facts. We are looking forward to being real-life archaeologists during Play Based Learning! We will have a Dino Dig set up in our classrooms for us to dig for fossils and dino bones! We also spend time learning about life long ago when our topic changes to “Long, long ago…when great, great, great, great Gran was a little girl!” We will be finding out about things that have changed at home, at school and the kind of toys little girls and boys played with. This term we also participate in Young Enterprise lessons and look forward to these with Mrs Bonar.

Term 3

In term 3 our theme is 'Growing is great!' We will be looking at growing plants, animals and pets and also how we grow. We hope to do a bit of planting and have our own Garden Centre, let's cross our fingers for some sun! We all love looking after and caring for animals! We will be learning about what pets need to keep healthy, making collars and blankets for pets, discovering what a vet does and thinking about what makes our pet special. There are many things to look forward to in this term including our class trip, sports day and the summer fair.

Please take time to look through the P2 Parent Guidance sheets. These documents detail the Numeracy and Literacy that your child will cover in P2. Please use these to support your child with their learning at home.

Thank you,

Mrs Thompson and Mrs McWhirter