Term 4
Learning Overview for Primary 6

Literacy
WRITING:
Our focus this term will be on personal writing and being
able to express our emotions an opinions with supporting
detail. We will be learning to share experiences,
expressing what they made us think or feel. We will
continue to practise the tools for writing, including
punctuation, grammar and handwriting.

SPELLING & PHONICS: We will continue learn new
spelling rules and patterns each week which will help us
spell more difficult words. We will be learning specialist
words linked to our topic and will learning to check and
edit our writing appropriately.

READING: Our class novel this term will be ‘Wonder’ by
R.J Palacio. We will be considering the purpose and main
idea of the text and develop informed views about the
text looking at fact and opinion. We will continue to look
for clues and evidence in the text to back up our
responses and complete comprehension and close reading
activities. To make links between the novel and real
experiences and link to our health and wellbeing
discussions.

LISTENING & TALKING: We will continue to regularly
select and create texts of choice and share them in
different ways. There will be opportunities for listening
and talking through our H&B discussions. We will also be
creating personal projects which will be shared with the
class in a variety of ways.

Numeracy and Mathematics
NUMERACY: We will start the term off by
completing our division topic started last term. We
will then move onto decimals, fractions and
percentages and look at the link between them and
how we can use them in different ways. We will also
have the opportunity to investigate equations with
algebraic expressions and problems solving this
term.

MATHEMATICS:
In maths, we will complete the money topic started
last term then we will move onto looking at data
handling. In data handling we will be looking at
different ways to interpret data using different
types of graphs. We will also introduce scale.
Health and Wellbeing
P6b – Our P.E days are Monday & Wednesday.
P6a – Our P.E days are Monday & Tuesday.
In PE we will be covering racquet sports, gymnastics and
athletics. Sports Day will be on Thursday 14th of May.

Health:
We will be continuing to focus on kindness, friendship and
respect. We will continue to express ourselves in a
positive manner. We will be using Emotion Works and
Treehouse resource to support us in this. We will also
cover the primary 6 targets following the National
Resource for Relationships, Sexual
Health and Parenthood (RSHP) education for children and
young people.
Our Topic will be about…
BODY SYSTEMS AND CELLS

We will explore the structure and function of sensory
organs, looking at body systems and how they support our
growth and development. We will investigate the role of
micro-organisms in producing and breaking down materials.
We will investigate lifecycles of plants and animals. We will
explore characteristics offspring inherit and distinguish
between inherited and non-inherited characteristics.
Useful websites
NUMBER:
Sumdog: https://www.sumdog.com/en/
Topmarks: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/
LITERACY:
Spell Zone: https://www.spellzone.com/
Spell Training: https://www.spellingtraining.com/
TOPIC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zv9qhyc/articles/z7dvbdm
HWB: https://rshp.scot/second-level/
HOMEWORK:

Homework will go out on a Wednesday.