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Primary 5 21/22, Uncategorized

P5 We Love Marty!

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Today the children were beyond excited to meet Marty the robot!

The children used Scratch Editor to put together blocks of coding which made Marty walk, dance, light up, whistle, kick, wave and even do the splits!

I was so proud of how well the children worked as teams. They supported each other and learned form each other. Amazing to see. Lots of smiles and laughter too.

Throughout the session the children will develop their coding skills and use their knowledge to solve problems with Marty. They will also have lots of fun at the same time.

Primary 5 20/21, Uncategorized

Primary 5 – Term 3 Learning Targets

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Numeracy 

The main areas of focus this term will be: 

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages 

  • Children will use their knowledge of factors to find the simplest form of a fraction 
  • Ordering fractions with different denominators and understanding equivalences 
  • Making the initial links between fractions and decimals, and then decimals and percentages  

Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division 

  • Throughout this term, Primary 5 will continue to work on the above skills on a weekly basis. 
  • We will be multiplying and dividing numbers of up to 4 digits by a single number, 
  • We will be learning different strategies to add and subtract numbers up to 5 digits. 
  • Times tables are an integral part of numeracy at all levels, so these will be continued on a weekly basis. I would encourage the children to be working on these at home as much as possible.  

 

There are some useful games on the following website for practising multiplication tables: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables 

 Sumdog is also a useful resource which is accessible from home.

  

  

Literacy 

Reading  

The children have started reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ by J.K. Rowling this term. 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. 

Following this, we will be completing a block on non-fiction texts  

  

Writing  

This term we will be focussing on recount writing. This will include diary entries and newspaper report writing linked to our IDL topic, novel and current affairs.  

  

I.D.L. 

This term, our topic is The Romans. Some of the areas the children will be learning about are: the rise of the Roman Empire, Roman Numerals, different weapons used during battle and some historical figures who lived during the rule of the Roman Empire, e.g. Boudicca, Julius Caesar. 

    

Health and Wellbeing 

This term we will be focusing on Growth Mindset and how changing the way you think and speak about things can change the way you feel about them.

There will also be a short block on sexual health, more information on what the children will be learning can be found in the ‘Useful Links’ section of the blog. 

The children will also be learning about the human body with Mrs Fullard, focusing on the cardiovascular system, the respiratory system and vision. 

In P.E., the focus will be Short Tennis skills. 

Primary 6 20/21, Uncategorized

Primary 6 Term 3

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Primary 6 are already off to a flying start and have been incredibly busy working on many different aspects of the curriculum.

Literacy

This term we will finish ready Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and will begin Dragon Fire by Anne Forbes. We will continue to embed our reading strategies with a particular focus on main idea and summary.

For writing we will look at the functional genres persuasive writing and explanation reports. The children will be encouraged to pay particular attention to the their tools for writing, focusing on punctuation.

Numeracy

So far this term we have  covered Money, more specifically hire purchase and budgeting, Angles and Area of triangles and rectangles. For the rest of the term we will look at number, including fractions, decimals and percentages.

Mrs Fullard who will be working with the children on Thursday and Fridays will cover symmetry and tessellation as well as problem solving strategies.

Health and Wellbeing

This term we will cover Relationships, sexual Health and Parenthood. The focus in Primary 6 will be to cover aspects of puberty. You can find more information on this by accessing the parent information booklets within the Useful Documents section on the Blog.

We will also continue to focus on our emotional and  mental health and strategies exploring ways to help support ourselves and others.

I.D.L. 

The children are thoroughly enjoying their work towards the John Muir Award and this will continue until the end of term. There are many aspects to this work including enjoying our natural surroundings, learning more about the science behind nature and sharing our learning with the wider community.