Dear Parent/Guardian,

I hope you all had a wonderful summer!
This letter will provide you with a brief overview of the learning that will take place this term in Primary 6. This information provides you with an insight into your child’s learning and I look forward to the year ahead as the Primary 6 teacher.

Literacy
The children will continue to follow North Lanarkshire’s Active Literacy programme for Spelling, Reading, Writing and Listening and Talking. This programme will help to develop further their literacy skills and provide exciting and new challenges.
The children will take part in a whole class novel study to reintroduce them to the Active Literacy Reading Strategies. The novel this term will be ‘The Silver Sword’ written by Ian Serraillie. The text will be read in class alongside the children to model reading skills. In addition to this, the children will be given a novel to take home and this should be read each night to develop fluency and encourage reading for enjoyment.

Numeracy
This term Primary 6 will explore place value with numbers up to 100,000, length and weight and addition up to 100,000. The children will have the opportunity to learn these skills and concepts through a mixture of both active and written tasks. This will enable the children to apply their learning across contexts and see a real purpose to their learning.

Health and Wellbeing
Health and Wellbeing will be taught across the curriculum. This term in Physical Education the children will develop their skills in Aesthetics through gymnastics and dance. The children will also explore substance misuse this term with Mrs McLaughlin.

Interdisciplinary Learning
The children of Primary 6 will be exploring the Rainforest this term. Various element of the rainforest will be examined such as, animals and plants, deforestation, indigenous people and much more. The children will apply their learning across the curriculum with a particular focus within the curriculum areas of Social Studies, Expressive Arts and Technologies.

Religious Education
Religious Education will be taught through the ‘This Is Our Faith’ programme. This term Primary 6 will explore Prayer with a focus on personal prayer. Additionally, the children of Primary 6 will explore their God-given role to care for and protect God’s creation, including themselves.

The children’s homework will help to support their on-going classwork and I would appreciate your support in ensuring the children keep up with all homework tasks.

Many thanks,
Mrs Williamson