Dear Parent/Carer,

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

Learning focus this term:

This term the children will develop their learning about Scottish Parliament by:

• Comparing and contrasting the role of Scottish Parliament and UK Parliament.
• Researching the roles of key figures with in the Scottish Parliament.
• Investigating the main parties and what their policies are.
• Visiting the Scottish Parliament.

In a series of Sustainability lessons, the children will be learning about the impact that plastic and non-recyclable products have on our planet. Through these lessons pupils will learn to/about:

• The impact plastic is having on the earth, sea and the creatures that live in both.
• Investigate what society can do to help the issue.
• Conduct a school based campaign to raise awareness of a sustainability related issue.

Core Literacy:

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.

This term we will be reading and studying ‘Wonder’ as our class novel.

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 check their comprehension.

Core Numeracy:

• Pupils will be able to read, interpret and create various forms of graphs.
• Pupils will be working on developing knowledge and understanding of the strategies required to solve word problems.
• Pupils will be using mental and written strategies to solve mathematical problems
• Pupils will apply their knowledge of multiplication, division, decimals and fractions to solve word problems.

General Information:

Our PE days will be Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

We will continue to have Art, Music and Spanish on a three week cycle.

Homework will be issued on a Monday and should be returned on Friday morning.

Reading homework will be issued on a weekly basis.

Many thanks,

Mrs Brown