Easter is gone, the clocks have gone forward, and the lighter nights are here! And so is term 4!  The last term for our P6’s before becoming top of the school.  Here is a brief overview of our learning this term.

Literacy

We are continuing to develop all reading skills through a variety of guided reading texts. We will be focussing on concisely answering the 3 main question types with a particular focus on the steps to answer inferential questions.  For writing this term, we are looking at the genre of response: writing reviews and giving personal opinions to things we have watched or read.  Our grammar will be looking at investigating affixes and how they change the meaning of root words.

Numeracy

Our numeracy focus this term will continue on percentages before moving onto time.  We will also look at equations later in the term.  We will continue to use Number Talk strategies to develop mental strategies using all four processes.

Health and Wellbeing

Our focus is on relationships and sexual health.  In late June we will discuss God’s Loving Plan and complete appropriate activities.  As this subject is sensitive, please discuss these issues with your child at home.

The PATHS focus this term is on making and keeping friendships and learning how to deal with teasing behaviours.  We will also continue to praise and compliment children through Pupil of the Day.

Our PE days are still Monday and Thursday and pupils must bring in their PE kit on these days to participate fully.  We will be first concentrating on netball then moving onto athletics.

IDL

The topic this term is based around enterprise for the school show.  Preparations are already underway and pupils will be participating in lots of drama, art, technology and enterprising activities to make the show a success.  Keep your eyes peeled for further updates of our show.

We will also have a science focus this term, concentrating on the water cycle.

RE

For RE this term, we are continuing to progress through the Pope Francis Faith Award journals.  We will be completing the Gift of Piety and Wisdom.  Pupils will be aiming to give evidence of them being used in the school, at home and in the community or Parish.  P6 will also look at the story of Pentecost.

French

The focus for this terms French is to focus on the cultural differences between Scotland and France, investigating foods, celebrations and a typical school day.

Technologies

This term P6 will further develop use of online applications such as Glow and Teams and use features within PowerPoint and Word.

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.

Mr Bertoncini