Welcome to the Primary 7 Class Page
About Us
Hello P7 families and welcome to our class page. Primary 7 are a class of 22 pupils. Miss C Kingston is the class teacher. On a Wednesday and Friday afternoon, we are taught by Mrs L Steel who will be focusing on Health & Wellbeing, Maths, Spelling and Art.
Topics being covered this year
- Term 1 -Australia
- Term 2 – Materials from Our Planet
- Term 3 – WW2
- Term 4 – Plants
Things we will be working on this year
Term 1 & 2 – Maths & Numeracy
- Revision of the four operations + – x ÷
- Revision of Place Value
- Multiplication & division by 10, 100 and 1000
- Order of Operations – BIDMAS
- All about Angles – naming angles, calculating missing angles
- All about Triangles
- Consolidating and extending knowledge of decimals.
Term 1 & 2 – Literacy
Reading
- Class novel
- Select and use a variety of sources to find information.
- Develop skimming and scanning skills.
- Reading comprehension skills.
Writing
- Formal and informal letter writing.
- Focus on using ambitious vocabulary and a variety of connectives.
- Persuasive Writing.
- Poetry with a focus on figurative language (personification, simile, onomatopoeia, imagery, metaphor, alliteration)
Listening & Talking
- Show understanding by responding to and asking different kinds of questions.
Term 1 & 2 -Health & Wellbeing
- Making & keeping friends
- Personal Hygiene
- Participation
- The Global Goals
Term 1 & 2 -Physical Education
- Children will continue to apply and develop a broader range of skills and use them in a range of activities with our focus this term in netball.
Term 1 & 2 – Social Subjects – Australia
- Geography of Australia
- Territories, capitals
- Landscape
- Climate
- Natural disasters – heatwaves, bushfires, cyclones
- Plants and animals, Adaptation and variation, Habitats
- Indigenous People – Aboriginal People
- Aboriginal art
- Famous Landmarks
Term 1 & 2- Technologies
- Manage online folders (save, open, use OneDrive)
- Use search engines for research purposes
- Add, edit and manipulate text and pictures, using Microsoft Word
- Create presentations.
- Develop skills in Glow (e-mails, Microsoft apps, downloading tiles
Gym Days – Our gym day is Wednesday morning.
Ways to Support Learning at Home
Practising rapid, accurate recall of the times tables is always encouraged as multiplication is an important aspect of numeracy.
Reading of any sort is to be encouraged. Comics, catalogues, cookbooks, all genres are of benefit.
If computer access permits, touch typing can always be practised and improved.
Websites to support maths and numeracy:
http://www.funtosave.org/Default.aspx
http://www.readwritecount.scot/
https://www.nationalnumeracy.org.uk/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/secondlevel/mathematics/
Websites to support literacy:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/index.htm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z7mtsbk
Websites to support computing
http://https://www.codeclubprojects.org/en-GB/
Generally useful websites:
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/ http://www.topmarks.co.uk
http://www.kidsknowit.com/ https://www.brainpop.com/
https://www.thenational.academy/
www.kids.nationalgeographic.com
https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/games/wordshake
