Hythehill Primary School

Primary 3A Term 4 Newsletter

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This term our context for learning is Coastal Classrooms and Forces & Energy with most curricular areas being taught through these. We are still exploring  rights for children as part of our work on becoming a Rights Respecting School.

Literacy: We will focus on developing:

• Good listening and talking skills – trying not to interrupt when others are speaking, turn taking , questioning and speaking clearly.
• Reading comprehension – being able to ask and answer questions related to the text and clarify the meanings of words.
• Prediction and analysing texts – being able to give an opinion on what is going to happen next; distinguishing between fact and opinion
• Grammar – continuing to work on punctuating sentences; nouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives. We will also learn about apostrophes, contractions and prepositions.
• Spelling – we will continue with Jolly Spelling with one new spelling pattern being introduced each week. Homework is sent home each week and the spelling words will be practised in class as Active Spelling before being tested each Friday. We will continue the Look, Cover, Write and Check method.
• Handwriting – we will continue learning  how to join pairs of  letters. Correct formation will be insisted upon to ensure our writing is neat and can be read easily.
• Writing – this continues to be linked to our theme. We will continue to develop independence through use of story planners and our “Have a Go” books for words we need in our writing.

Numeracy and Maths: This term we will focus on:

• Recognition of, writing and ordering numbers to 1000 and beyond – ensuring children understand the value of each numeral; adding and subtracting tens and units; adding and subtracting hundreds, tens and units;  times tables (2x  4x  5x  10x  3x) using arrays as a starting point and linking division and multiplication facts; recap rounding numbers to the nearest ten
• Mental maths strategies – continuing to increase our mental agility by adding and subtracting using quick recall of our number bonds, spotting and continuing number patterns,  number before, after and between, number families
• Fractions – halves, quarters and tenths – placing numbers on a number line, recognising fractions
• Time- recap on ¼ past  and ¼ to using analogue and digital clocks, minutes past and to.
• Length ; recap on working with metre sticks, measuring tapes and rulers – metres and centimetres
• Shape – recap on 3D shapes, introduce calculating area
• Capacity – working with litres and half litres, introduce ml
• Weight- comparing items and measuring with kg, ½ kg and g
• Chance

Health & Wellbeing

• Developing our understanding of what our “rights” are and how these can be protected for everyone. .
• Continuing to develop collaborative skills through group and paired challenges, using circle time to share our ideas and feelings.
• GIRFEC – discussing what being safe and healthy means, who helps us and how we can help ourselves. This will include work on assessing risk. Health week (6-10June)
• PE – early golf skills and athletics. Preparing for Sports Day. 15 minutes Daily Dash every day.
• Risk assessing – our trips to the beach for theme related outdoor learning and our Heritage Walk around Lossiemouth.

Other class information

• PE is on a Wednesday – kit must be worn. Please do not wear tights or ties on PE day. Please ensure earrings are covered using tape or removed and left at home.
• Coastal Classrooms – Thurs afternoons from 12.30 – 3pm ( Apr 21, 28; May 5, 12, 26; June 2)
• Heritage walk around Lossiemouth – June 10 from 9-12.30
• Reading days have changed – please see reading record for a note of these. Books should be brought every day please.
• Homework is given out every Monday and should be returned each Friday. Please remember to sign your child’s homework.

Whole school information

• The school office is open 8.30am – 3.30pm
• Please inform us in advance if your child will be absent because of an appointment.
• Please put your child’s name on all of their school clothing
• In Service Days – no school for children on 19 and 20 May

 

Should you wish to contact us, please arrange an appointment through Mrs Russell. Thank you,

Mrs Summers and Mrs Gray (Class Teachers)