Friendship (Health and Wellbeing Focus)

In class and through assemblies, Primary 5 have been discussing what bullying is, how we can address it if encountered and focussing on the importance of friendship this term. We have linked this with lessons across the curriculum such as R.E, looking at our chosen Articles as a Rights Respecting School through our class charter as well as SHANARRI. We have also focussed  on what makes a good friend? We discussed how emotions affect us and how we can seek  help if we need to by talking to our peers and teachers, especially if a pupil or friend is worried or being unkind to others. Also, that we must be very careful to distinguish clearly if bullying is occuring and not label minor fall outs and upsets between friends as bullying, rather recognise this as repeated patterns of verbal or physical abuse occuring which causes severe worry and upset. As a school community and class, we have agreed this will be dealt with immediately. We encourage positive behaviour and relationships at Mount Carmel and have a zero-tolerance policy to bullying. In supporting this, we looked at how we can be good role models in the playground, good team members in class, in group work, in P.E. lessons, as well as outwith school.

 

 

 

Term 1- Curriculum Overview

Welcome to Primary 5! This term will be busy working on lots of new and exciting learning in class and we are looking forward to sharing this with you . This first blog/post will overview the learning we will cover in the P5 class from August until October.

Literacy

This term we will be reading ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ as a class novel study. Through our study pupils will be able to

  • Read using strategies, make notes and engage in dialogue with peers to discuss themes in the class text.
  • Build skills on our 6 key Active Literacy Comprehension strategies.
  • Bug Club readers will be allocated incl. Non- fiction text /plays.
  • Writing Focus –  Recount,  Newspaper Report and Discursive.
  • Spelling, Grammar & Handwriting.

Numeracy & Maths

  • Place Value  – looking at larger whole numbers. Th /H/ T/ U
  • Information Handling. – Looking at data, surveys and compiling into a graph/ table.
  • Estimation/Probability.
  • Daily Mental Maths covering the 4 processes ( +  –  x    / ) .

Health and Wellbeing –  This term we will be focussing on

Whole school Nurture – Refreshing our ‘Massage Training’ in class.

In P.E. we will cover,

  • Team Games
  • Rugby
  • Street Hockey

Religious Education

August/ September –

  • Revising prayers /  Attending mass.
  • Friendship and our Faith Community- Looking at bible stories about emotions.

October  –

  • (Mary ) – Our Lady focus. (Learning the Rosary)
  • Looking at Creation.

Topic –  ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’

We will be using our book study as a focus for our learning and to engage in various activities across all curricular areas.

Important Primary 5 info… 

Homework distributed on Mondays to be completed, signed and returned by Friday.

P.E days are on Monday /Tuesday.

Outdoor learning day is Thursday.