Class Newsletter: Term 4

Primary 6:

Dear Parent/Carer,

I hope you find the following information useful. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

An Overview of our learning focus for Term 4

Health and Wellbeing:

We will be discussing and considering issues surrounding drugs, smoking and alcohol. We will be identifying the health risks and choices the pupils may face. We will explore the current issues surrounding these topics, the links between them and social stereotyping.

 

Core Literacy:

This term we will be reading and studying ‘Pyrate’s Boy’ as our class novel. We will be focusing on creative writing to ensure our stories are well structured and full of interesting and engaging language. Through our topic, we will be applying our learning to a variety of functional writing tasks.

Throughout this term we will be learning about/to:

• Identify the author’s style, applying prediction and inference skills and identifying various forms of rhetoric.
• Developing our knowledge and understanding of our own talking and listening skills.
• We will continue to use VCOP strategies to develop our writing.
• We will develop our creative writing skills, including quality descriptions, various forms of rhetoric and correct structure.
• Children will be given opportunities to develop their listening and talking skills through a variety of class based activities, including cooperative group work and debating.
• The children will read a novel during class reading lessons and will use Blooms Buttons and Book Detective strategies to develop their comprehension.

Core Numeracy:

• Developing knowledge and understanding of the strategies required to solve word problems.
• Using mental and written strategies to solve mathematical problems.
• Applying knowledge of multiplication, division, decimals and fractions to solve word problems.
• Revision and consolidation of the relationship between fractions, percentages and decimals.
• Reinforcement of multiplication and division facts to develop speed, accuracy and confidence.

Many thanks

Miss Robinson