Last week, Primary 5 delivered speeches on influential scientists Marie Curie, Alan Turing, Katherine Johnson, Annie Easley, Chien -Shiung Wu and Isaac Newton.
When new pupils arrive at Dunlop Primary, their transition is supported by entry into a caring and supportive environment.
Each new pupil becomes a valued member of a small ‘family unit’ within Dunlop and are allocated a House. Pupils stay within their house until they leave in P7, additionally we place siblings together within a house.
At Dunlop Primary, we have three house: Clerkland, Glazert and Lugton. These are named after local areas. Each house is represented by a different colour and we encourage pupils to wear their house colours on days throughout the year.
Clerkalnd = Blue
Glazert = Yellow
Lugton = Red
House Captains
At the beginning of the school year, a P7 is elected House Captain and takes on the responsibility for the leadership and organisation of their house for the forthcoming year and they are supported by a P6 Vice Captain. The House Captains and Vice Captains work tirelessly to ensure their house members are working together to earn House Points through living and demonstrating our School Values of being happy, kind, honest and respectful.
House points are also awarded at House Events, although this year we will need to be creative with how we organise these to ensure we don’t mix bubbles!. At the end of the year, house points are added together and the house with the most points wins the overall house competition and they life the much coveted House Cup.
Recently, the P7 and P6 pupils prepared and presented an election speech to their peers and each house then chose their captains and vice captains. A huge congratulations to our House Captains and Vice Captains and also a huge thank you to all the children who worked hard to prepare and deliver their election speeches. We were delighted to see so many children keen to take on leadership roles with in our school.
House Captains and Vice Captains for 2020/2021 are (and for the very first time, we have a joint captaincy)
with warmest regards, Mrs Nouillan
Lugton House CaptainLugton Vice CaptainGlazert House CaptainGlazert Vice CaptainClerkland House CaptainClerkland House CaptainClerkland Vice Captain
Thank you so much for your donations to our Harvest Collection, the photographs speak for themselves!
May we offer a huge thank you to you for your very generous support and The Salvation Army also extends a huge thank you too. They asked me to say, there will be many families and people from the East Ayrshire area who benefit from your kindness.
Some of our P1 pupils helped pack the Harvest ready for collection and they were exhausted by how much they had to pack!
We will be learning the formal method for multiplying 2 and 3 digit numbers
Time tables, as always, will be a huge focus. The 7 has already been introduced with the 9 following soon after. All other tables will be constantly revised throughout the term.
Data Handling
Children will be using Microsoft Forms to create questionnaires for their classmates to answer.
This data will be used to create various types of graphs on Microsoft Excel
Children will also get the opportunity to interpret data from graphs and comment on any trends.
Addition and Subtraction
Different strategies to add and subtract numbers up to 4 digits.
Rounding and Estimating
We will be learning how to round numbers to the nearest 1000 (as well as revising rounding to the nearest 10 and 100).
Money
Children will be given a budget of £30 and asked to plan and budget a day out with a friend, presenting their findings on a poster.
We will discuss the terms profit and loss, as well as the differences between debit and credit cards.
Measure
A block of learning has already been completed on measuring in mm, cm and m.
We have also learned how to calculate area using the formula area = length x breadth, as well as calculating perimeters.
Sumdog diagnostics are still being completed and as soon as these are complete, I will be setting optional Sumdog homework which will focus on times tables.
Literacy
Reading
The children will read two novels this term as a whole class group, ‘There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom’ by Louis Sachar and ‘The Eye of the Wolf’ by Daniel Pannac. Active Literacy reading strategies (Prediction, Metalinguistics, Visualisation, Inference, Main Idea and Summary) will be used to help demonstrate a deeper understanding of the content being read in class.
Writing
This term we will be focussing on imaginative writing, the children will be learning how to use adverbs, similes and metaphors to describe characters and settings.
We will also be looking at persuasive writing, which we will link into our IDL topic, The Rainforest.
Listening and Talking
In November, the class will asked to perform a solo talk in front of the class (information will be sent home soon).
I.D.L. / Science
This term our topic is the Rainforest. Some areas we will be learning about are:
The layers of the rainforest and some of the animals that live in each layer.
Food chains and the transfer of energy through these food chains.
The process of photosynthesis and its importance to life on earth.
The pros and cons of deforestation, and the impact it’s having on our planet.
Health and Wellbeing
This term the children will be learning about the impact smoking has on the body. As well as this we will be completing work on building a growth mindset.
In P.E. the children will be learning large ball skills, specifically netball. We will also complete a block of athletics.
May we offer a huge thank you to you for your very generous support and The Salvation Army also extends a huge thank you too. They asked me to say, there will be many families and people from the East Ayrshire area who benefit from your kindness.
Some of our P1 pupils helped pack the Harvest ready for collection and they were exhausted by how much they had to pack!
