Teacher – Miss Docherty

Learning Overview for Primary 7a

Literacy
WRITING:
We will be developing our ability to create texts
for a variety of purposes. This will include
factual/informative writing around our War and
Conflict topic. We will also be using our
persuasive writing skills to ask local businesses
for donations for our business enterprise.
We are aiming to review written pieces to
correct any errors and ensure our writing makes
sense all the way through, is technically accurate
and meets its purpose.
We will build on existing skills in note taking,
organising and using these in a variety of layouts
and for specific purposes.

SPELLING:
A focus will be on ensuring we are using taught
spelling rules consistently to enable us to spell
most words correctly.
We will also be learning specialist vocabulary
linked to other areas of the curriculum. E.g topic,
finance, probability and chance.

READING:
Responding to a range of literal, inferential and
evaluative questions will give us the opportunity
to show our understanding or a range of texts
read including our group/class reading books.

LISTENING & TALKING:
Our main focus this term is on selecting suitable
vocabulary for our audience to create a
presentation for our Enterprise Business idea for
a Dragons’ Den style meeting.
Numeracy and Mathematics

NUMERACY:
We will be focusing on place value including ordering
and rounding to develop our understanding of number,
applying this to increasingly larger numbers.
We will also be working on solving adding, subtracting,
multiplying and dividing problems using both written
and mental strategies.
We will continue to focus on our times/dividing tables
and work on developing our problem-solving skills to
solve various types of word problems.

MATHEMATICS:
Our enterprise theme will enable us to develop our
understanding of money and finance at a deeper level
and give us a practical opportunity to use the vocabulary
of finance.
We will be using this opportunity to link our financial
education to real life.
Health and Wellbeing
P.E
Our PE days are every Wednesday morning with
muga slots on a Monday afternoon.

Health:
We will be focusing on all 3 aspects of health and
wellbeing: physical, emotional and mental.
We will use a range of emotion works, the
Treehouse app and activities to develop our
understanding of how to promote healthy living
through the choices we make.
Our Topic(s) will be about…
Aug-Oct: War & Conflict
Looking at various conflicts throughout history, past &
present including:
•creating a timeline of historic battles which had
a direct impact on Scotland and the UK.
•write a diary entry from the perspective of
someone who has been caught in a conflict.
•suggest some vocabulary that is linked to our
topic using a dictionary to find the meaning of
tricky or unfamiliar words.

Oct-Dec: Dragon’s Den/Enterprise
We will learn about how to create a business plan to
present to others on an idea we have for a business.
This will involve costing materials, producing these and
calculating the prices of our product for selling.
Our plan is to put together a small-scale Christmas
Fayre for the P7 parents and McLean pupils to attend.
After the fayre we will use our finance skills to
determine whether our venture(s) were profitable
ones.
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://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/solar-
system/353789
https://www.esa.int/kids/en/learn/Our_Univer
se/Planets_and_moons/The_Solar_System_and
_its_planets
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/menu/solar-
system/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zy6fg2

 

HOMEWORK:
Homework will go out on a Wednesday and is due for
return the following Monday.