P5-6-7’s topic this term has been The Victorians.  Last week, we created timelines of important events throughout the Victorian Era:

We also linked our topic with Literacy to create an effective advert for a Victorian mode of transport.  We researched our chosen mode of transport first, then used the knowledge we had gained to create an effective advert:

You can watch one of the adverts below:

Numeracy

This term, pupils are learning about time, as well as number patterns and relationships.  Through a mixture of games, problem solving and written tasks, the children have been focusing on calculating durations of time.  Some have even been planning their own days out to a new location – something we can all dream of doing after lockdown!

Literacy

At the beginning of term, the children used a picture as inspiration to write their own fictional piece of writing.  They focused on writing a story with a well structured beginning, middle and end.  It was good fun reading the twists and turns the children came up with for their story.

In the past couple of weeks, we have focused on non-fiction styles of writing using our topic, The Victorians, as a basis for this.  Last week, we pretended to be Victorian children living in a workhouse and used our knowledge of this to write an effective diary entry.

Other Curricular Areas:

We have been enjoying dancing, boxercise and yoga throughout our PE sessions.  During our art lessons, we went on a virtual trip to a well known gallery in London and learned about a few famous artists.  We completed projects on famous Victorian inventors and thought about what life would be like now if they hadn’t created their inventions:

 

• We have been covering a range of Health and Wellbeing topics based around respect, making positive decisions, evaluating risk and danger and building positive relationships.
• During our Science lessons, we have partaken in a range of theoretical and practical experimentation around physics, chemistry and biology and the children have thoroughly enjoyed running a chemical reaction workshop. Our focus has been on the use of scientific language and forming predictions.
• The children have been developing their understanding of the language of coding and its relevance in the world around us.
• In PE, we have been developing our basketball skills, teamwork, co-ordination and balance skills.

 

Prehistoric Times – Through a cross-curricular approach, the children have been learning about and creating Neolithic dwellings and have thoroughly enjoyed their outdoor learning experience where they recreated stone age tools and weapons and through research and re-enactments, gained a greater understanding of what life was like back then.

We are continuing to develop our listening, talking, reading and writing skills this term.  Within writing, we have been learning about different styles of poetry and using our knowledge to write our own effective pieces.

We are developing our understanding of spelling graphemes and which ones are connected with which phonemes and the patterns therein – we are then investigating their application within texts.

During our reading lessons we have been developing our comprehension as well as our analytic and evaluative thinking skills through reading for enjoyment and choice. The children have become very enthused for reading and it has been lovely to hear them talk in depth about what they are reading as well as recommending new reads to each other.

To develop our listening and talking skills we have been working in groups whilst using our ‘Prehistoric’ topic to create projects about The Bronze Age and presenting these to our classmates.

Next term – we will have a focus on non-fiction writing linked to our topic.

Ways you can support your child:  Encourage your child to read little and complete their spelling homework each week.

 

This term our first focus is on fractions, decimals and percentages – the children have been developing a range of skills including equivalent fractions, ordering and addition with fractions, improper and mixed fractions, converting fractions to percentages and decimal fractions.  The class are also learning how to manage money and through a variety of activities, will continue to develop their awareness of the value of money.

Moving forward into Term 3 we will have a focus on time, develop our understanding of number patterns and relationships and also investigate how maths impacts on the world.

Ways you can support your child: Practice times tables including fast mental recall, this will help with their understanding of number patterns and relationships.

Primary 5-7 have been looking at the stone age comparing their lives with people from the past. They have also created their own stone age tools.