Welcome to P4W!

Please find some information below regarding some of our daily and weekly routines:

• PE will take place on a Wednesday and Thursday with Mrs Chance and on a Friday with Mr Roberts. Please can you ensure your child has a full, labelled PE kit including shoes, shorts and t-shirt. Pupils should leave their PE kits in class. These will be sent home at the end of each term.
• Art will take place on a Wednesday afternoon. Please feel free to provide your child with a paint shirt to wear to protect their school uniform.
• Homework will be issued on a termly basis. Pupils will receive a copy of a homework grid with a variety of tasks to complete over the course of the term. Pupils may wish to bring some completed tasks into school on a Friday to share with myself and the class. Tasks should be ticked/signed off once completed. Pupils in P4 will always have weekly spelling words to practice and reading homework to complete.
• Traffic Lights to monitor behaviour are available on the back of their Reading Records (inside their reading books) to ensure you are aware of any concerns/issues in class.
• We will be continuing to use Sumdog in class to support Numeracy. Pupils can also use this at home. All pupils have a username and password to access, please let me know if you would also like a copy of this.
• Whilst we encourage pupils to cycle and scoot to school, please be aware that pupils must walk with their bikes and scooters in the playground.
• We encourage pupils to drink plain, unflavoured water in school. Please can you provide your child with a labelled bottle of water which they can use throughout the school day.

Term 1: August – October

In Primary 4 this term, our Context for Learning is a novel study of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. This will help develop our use of vocabulary and descriptive language.

In Numeracy, our main focus will be developing our knowledge of Place Value. We will also be practicing number facts in order to achieve quick and accurate recall.

We are also looking at germs in Science, have started learning basic words and phrases in French and are practicing our typing and researching skills in ICT.

 

Term 3: January – March 

In Primary 4 this term, our Context for Learning will have a Scottish focus of Scottish Artists. We will be looking at the artwork of different Scottish Artists and recreating their styles in our own art pieces. We will also be using our Context to create functional writing pieces including newspaper articles and information fact files.

In Numeracy, we are looking at different methods addition and subtraction, namely written algorithms. We will also be covering division and fractions during this term. We will continue to practice our mental maths to achieve quick recall and will introduce some more multiplication tables.

In RME, we will be introducing the pupils to Judaism and finding out some more about this faith. We are learning Makaton as a class and finding out some more about different ways of communicating and will continue to work on our research skills in ICT.

Term 4: April – June 

In Primary 4 this term, our Context for Learning will be the Human Body! We will be learning about all the different internal organs in our body, our skeleton and our Five Senses. We will also be looking at how we can keep our bodies healthy through exercise and healthy eating. We’ll be using our Context for Learning to take part in lots of different Art & Design activities and Science experiments.

Our Numeracy focus this term is measurement, angles, position and movement and problem solving skills. We’ll also continue to practice our Beat That tests and our multiplication facts.

In Literacy, we’ll be revising all of our WOW words, openers and connectives and focusing on punctuation. We will be writing a few more imaginative stories, alongside some reports on the Human Body and some instructional writing on how to keep ourselves healthy.

We will also continue to practice our Makaton in class and re-introduce French.

Please keep up to date with our learning in class through our school Twitter page: @abercrombyPS . If you wish to discuss anything, please feel free to get in touch. I am looking forward to the year ahead and working together to support your child.

Miss Wozniak