St. Brendan's Primary School and Nursery

Primary 4 have settled into the new school year well, enjoying lots of new learning experiences and meeting new friends ! We continue to learn across the curriculum and in particular, new learning in our Literacy Modelling has given us opportunities for cross curricular studies. This term we have learned about literacy strategies, for example, we having been learning how to create a visualiser, discuss characters and find tricky words and phrases to enhance our understanding of the story.  In class and group reading sessions, we practice reading skills concentrating on pace, volume, expression and fluency. Using sequencing tasks, we learned to put the text into the correct order so it made sense just as the author wrote the text. We have also discussed inference and are learning how to answer questions in full sentences to show our understanding of the story.  The owl also gave us the opportunity to name and design our own version of the character ‘Plop’  in Art lessons, where we created owl pictures which are now proudly displayed on classroom walls.