Primary 6 Room 16 Term 3 Overview

Timetable

P.E.: Tuesday with Mrs Begg and a Wednesday morning with Mr Hewitt. Throughout February this will change and the second session of P.E. will be on a Thursday morning where they will be working with the young leaders from Harlaw academy.

Drama –Wednesday with Mr Horabin.

French: Wednesday with Miss Macrae

Assembly: Friday Afternoon

I.C.T: Friday Morning

 

Homework

Maths, spelling and literacy homework will be given out on Mondays, due back in on Fridays.

Reading homework is given out once a week to individual groups on different days.

 

Termly Overview

This term P6 will be running an Enterprise project.  The class have been split into two groups, with one group organising a football tournament and the other group making and selling soap and bath bombs.  This will involve taking part in interviews, learning about spread sheets, developing business plans, using the school blog and making bath bombs.  Alongside the enterprise project P6 will be doing work in science. The will be learning about chemical reactions and forces.

 

In Literacy this term P6 will be focusing on improving their punctuation. They will be working on improving their use of capital letters, full stops, commas, speech marks in their writing.  They also want to improve their writing by looking at more ambitious vocabulary and including metaphors and similes in their work. This term they will also be writing 500 word stories, blog entries, science reports and making posters.

In Numeracy, room 16 will be continuing their work on decimals. This involves learning about place value, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals. They will also be beginning to look at the links between decimals and fractions and extending their knowledge of the numbers line by looking at negative numbers.

We will continue to practice our mental agility through multiplication practice and the Big Maths Clic and Learn it sessions on a Friday.