Welcome back! We are ready to make the most of our final terms at primary.

This term we will be working on:

Literacy

Pupils will be working on Bug Club texts within their own level and accessing the online resource to enhance their learning. We will focus on visualisation and metalinguistics . We will use our prior knowledge to inform predictions and will begin to look at Close Reading tasks to prepare us for the work we will be doing at our chosen Academy.

We will continue to look at newspaper articles and persuasive writing pieces relating to our class topics. This will form the basis of our talking and listening debating topic.

We are continuing to use our active approaches to spelling and transferring these skills into our everyday tasks.

Throughout January we will focus on Scots language through various tasks.

Numeracy and Maths

We will continue to work on addition and subtraction of large quantities using place value to aid our progress, we will move on to multiplication and division next so start working on those tables!

We will look at symmetry, angles and compass points in our beyond number moving onto measure nearer Easter.

HWB

Across the aspects of Health and Wellbeing we will study substance misuse, looking at choices that we as young people will make as we grow older.  We will move towards our ‘God’s Loving Plan’  programme of work towards the end of this term, exploring puberty and relationships.

We are loving our swimming block and will continue this for another 4 weeks, get practising outwith school to help enhance these skills! (Family swim on a Sunday at various leisure centres)

We are working on ball skills during our second PE slot, Football, Volleyball and basketball.

Lockerbie is imminent!! More info to follow.

IDL

Our IDL topic this term is ‘Highland Clearances’ where we are working in teams to research and present on one key part of this era. We are sharing our learning with our classmates and building a greater understanding across the timeline. We are completing art, and literacy tasks in relation to this topic.

We will then take a closer look at the modern studies topic of ‘British Politics’ we will explore ‘Brexit’ and Scotland’s place in this, we will look at devolved powers and work with guest speakers.

Expressive Arts

Art work will link to RE and Topic.

Music will focus on our programme of study ‘Charanga’ we will listen and evaluate various genres of music and will create our own pieces.

RE

We are continuing to work our way through our Pope Francis Faith Award. We will be revisiting 100 years of Catholic Education and taking part in various Lent activities for SCIAF.

Thanks for your ongoing support!