Primary 7 Blog Update

Topic

In Topic we are focusing on Land Uses, The four different types of Land Uses are Tourism, Recreational, Residential and Business/Work. Tourism is used mainly for countries’ economies such as Thailand, UAE and more. Tourism focuses on people entering, leaving or going to a different part of countries. These can be categorised as Outbound, Inbound and Domestic tourism. Recreational Land Uses are places like the Palace Theatre, Burns Mall and Rugby Park. Residential is used for housing areas such as Longpark, Bonnyton, Crosshouse. Business Land Uses are places like Fast Food, Restaurants, Kilmarnock F.C and many shops. We have also been building on our mapping skills by finding and locating information using atlases.

Health & Wellbeing

In Health and Wellbeing, we have been learning about Substance Misuse. We have been learning that alcohol can be addictive and can cause some types of Cancer. Alcohol is also a depressant as well as a toxin. We love our swimming lessons on a Monday. We have all made individual achievements. The Galleon staff have complimented on us on our behaviour and hard work. We have also been building on our gymnastic skills with Mr B. We still do our two PATHS lessons a week focusing on our emotional health and wellbeing.

Numeracy

In Numeracy, we have covered Negative Integers and all fell we have a better understanding of this concept. We have now moved on to Fractions, Decimals and Percentages and continuing our knowledge of Time as our Beyond Number topic. Every day at the start of Numeracy or the end of Numeracy, we do the Fast 5 to revise concepts taught and new skills.

Literacy

This term the focus is non-fiction reading and writing skills. We have been transferring our active comprehension skills to non-fiction books. We have been honing our note taking skills and using our notes to create a new text. We have also reading for enjoyment the Eejits, the Scottish version of Roald Dahl’s “The Twits”.

This term we are looking forward to –

• Dean Park Visit
• The Science Centre
• Lockerbie ( 6 weeks to go!)

Class Curriculum update written by Caiden and Aiden (Digital Champions)

This term we will be experiencing a broad range of activities and learning experiences.

 

Numeracy

We will be focusing on our multiplication and division strategies this term. We will be using our strategies during our numbers talks and applying our strategies to more challenging problems, applying our knowledge in real life contexts. Being able to apply knowledge of times tables facts is important as we progress through our strategies and problem solving. Please encourage your child to choose a times table and to work on their chosen times table each week.

In our beyond number topic, we will be revising shape and then moving on to angles.

 

Literacy.

We will be looking at Ted Hughes’ Iron Man for our novel study this term. We will be applying our comprehension strategies, prediction, metalinguistics, summarising and visualising to help our comprehension of the text. We will also use our novel study as a basis for our knowledge of language learning and will look at figurative language features as metaphors, similes and personification.

To continue to consolidate comprehension strategies, P6 will continue to work on ‘Bug Club’ texts within our own level. All books are allocated online, please let me know if you are having problems accessing them.

We will be looking at the skill of note-taking. We will be applying this skill across the curriculum; taking notes and then creating our own texts from these notes.

In writing, we will be focussing on report writing and will link this to our topic work.

 

Spelling.

P6 will continue to work with our active spelling strategies, working on a weekly phoneme as well as common words.

 

 

Religious Education.

P6 are continuing to work through their Pope Francis Faith Award, we are currently working on and thinking about the gift of piety.

We are also looking at Palestine at the time of Jesus, the geography of the region and daily life in 1^st century Palestine.

 

Health and Well-being and PE

We are enjoying our swimming lessons on Monday morning.

We will be learning the skills of badminton and later in the term we will complete our Play Lead Award which we started towards the end of last term.

We are continuing to follow our PATHs programme and are looking at different emotions, and how these can be described as comfortable or uncomfortable.

Topic.

This term, our topic is Scottish Landscapes, Rivers, Coasts and Mountains. We will be looking at the physical features of Scotland’s landscape and how these have been formed.

Homework will be distributed on a Wednesday and should be returned the following Wednesday.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs MacKinnon and Mrs Crawford.