It’s been a very busy week in P5/6.

This week we have been continuing to work on our understanding of place value. We have also been learning to use the Reordering strategy in Number Talks, where we change the order of the numbers in the calculation to make it easier to calculate.

In literacy we have been learning about homophones. We have been learning how to look up the meaning of different words in the dictionary and then use the words in the correct context. We also started our book study ‘Holes’ and completed our first reading strategy, Prior Knowledge based on this.

We also met and took part in a workshop with Cammy, Gregor and Olivia from CAMPS, who are going to be teaching us all about musical theatre. We will be exploring music, drama and dance through their workshops.

We worked together to create our values poster for achieving and nurture and had some excellent examples of how we demonstrate this in Catrine Primary.

Our PE days will be on a Monday and Wednesday this year. Please ensure that everyone has their PE kit on these days and that all jewellery is removed.

It has been such a lovely first week back. We have had lots of fun getting to know everyone in our class. This week we have created our visual timetable cards, created our Class Charter and made birthday cards, so we are prepared for the special occasions as they arrive.

We also started looking at place value in numeracy and completed our first Number Talks where we looked at partitioning. We were also revising our letter formation before we start to work on joining our handwriting.