Term 4 Primary Two Curricular Blog Post
We hope you all had an enjoyable Easter break as we now head into our final term! This term pupils will have lots of new learning as well as starting to think about transitioning into P3. We will also be ensuring we have retained all our learning this year. We have lots of fun events planned, including our Sharing the Learning which will take place on Thursday the 14th of May.
Literacy
This term in literacy all pupils will be looking at new phonics sounds. We will continue to introduce a new sound each week while revising our previous sounds. Pupils worked hard last term on their common words, we will continue revising and practising these. In our writing we started to look at adding connectives to make our sentences longer, we will start to include these in our sentences as we cover personal and persuasive writing this term. These are new genres for us so we will be looking at different examples to help us.
Pupils have been working hard answering comprehension questions in our reading, we will continue to introduce a different book this week. We will focus this term on note-taking and what information we can gain from a text therefore we will look at a lot of non-fiction texts.
Numeracy
We will cover several new concepts this term in numeracy. We will be looking at data handling, symmetry and time. Many of our maths topics will link to our IDL focus and we will take opportunities to take our learning outside when the weather allows us.
Pupils have worked very hard this year learning a variety of new concepts such as multiplication, division and money, so we will continue to revisit and reinforce these skills.
Health and Wellbeing
This term we will look at healthy eating and fuelling our bodies. We will consider how to make healthy choices and understand why it is important to take care of our bodies. We will continue our PATHS inputs to support friendships and emotional wellbeing.
During PE time pupils will have the opportunity to take part in athletics activities as we prepare for sports day.
Religious Education
In addition to attending monthly masses and Holy Days of Obligation, pupils we will continue to partake in RE activities. Throughout May we will be focusing on Mary and the importance of her role within the church.
IDL
We have a very exciting IDL topic of “Minibeasts” this term. Pupils will be involved in “bug hunts” where we will gather and collect data as well as creating symmetrical art work of different minibeasts. Pupils will also have responsibility of their very own caterpillar as we learn about the lifecycle of a butterfly.
UNCRC
We will be learning about the articles and rights involved in and associated with Mental Health Awareness Week (Article 24) in May and then look at the rights linked to World Refugee Day (Articles 10 and 22) in June.
We hope that this will be a fun final term for pupils in Primary 2, with lots to look forward to!
Miss Livingston and Mrs Strachan
