A Note From The Teacher
The boys and girls in P6 are looking forward to science this term and our topic will be: The Importance of Water. We will be learning about the water cycle, ways to clean water and discovering the ways in which we can reduce our usage of water. We will also be carrying out some science experiments so don’t forget to ask us about what we have been learning about.
Term 2 Topics
Science: The Importance of Water
Drama – Creative Thinking and Improvisation
Health – Food and Healthy Eating
RME – The Christmas Story (Advent) and the Saints
Music – Composing, Shakers, Drums and Sounds
P.E. – Creative Dance and Scottish Country Dancing
Literacy
Reading – Novel Studies – Strategies taught are: using prior knowledge, Metalinguistics, visualisation, inferential questioning, finding main ideas & themes and summary writing.
Spelling – words are issued weekly.
Grammar & Punctuation – Using commas, apostrophes and possessive adjectives
Story writing – a range of genre will be taught throughout the term.
Numeracy
Oral/Mental Maths – activities will be done daily as part of our maths programme.
Topics to be covered this term include;
Multiplication Division
Money
Multiples, Factors and prime numbers
Problem Solving – Practical and written problem solving tasks undertaken weekly.
Other Information
Mrs Black will continue to deliver German to P6 pupils. From the 4th November to 24th November Clyde Football Team will be coaching our class on a Friday, could children please remember to bring in PE kit.
