This year our teacher is Ms Kennedy Mon-Wed and Mrs Honeyman Thurs/Fri
Our P.E. days are Wednesday and Thursday
Please remember to pack both indoor and outdoor shoes for PE, as we will go outside weather permitting.
Our outdoor learning day is Monday so please come prepared to go outside in differing weather conditions. This day can vary so please bring suitable clothing every day
Our homework routine is reading Mon-Thurs, weekly Numeracy task and a Literacy task. This does vary week to week. Information will be posted on Class Dojo.
Your child’s school diary includes a number of pages to support homework activities.
The Help and Support section of our web site also provides resources to help homework activities.
Class Dojo
To see more information and learning in our class please click the link here
This term from January to March we plan to cover the following :
Numeracy – Ms Kennedy will continue with work on division and multiples and factors before continuing onto some decimal work relating to the four operations in the context of money then fractions, decimals and percentages.
Mathematics – Mrs Honeyman will begin with length and volume before moving onto angles.Elements of this learning will be included in our Fantastic Friday activities.
Literacy – Ms Kennedy will begin the term focusing on our Talk for Writing fiction piece which is a journey story focusing on description. We have chosen a story with a Scottish theme – The Ghillie Dhu.
Guided Reading will continue with focus on reading fluency and understanding.
Mrs Honeyman will be teaching and reinforcing spelling and discrete comprehension skills such as inference.
Health and Wellbeing – This term in P.E. we will be learning Scottish Country Dances as well taking part in gymnastics and basketball lessons.
Other Curricular Areas –
From January to mid-February the class have chosen to learn about Scottish Artists. Scottish Islands, Saint Andrew. They have chosen to create art in the style of Steven Brown, Gillian Kyle and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. We will also be preparing for the Community Café where they would like to display their learning and singing a traditional Scottish song.
We will be learning about Cyber Resilience and using Construction kits in Technologies, continuing with our learning in French and focusing on Food Health alongside our PATHs learning in Health and Wellbeing.
Primary 6 will also have the opportunity to participate in some learning with Primary 7 and St John Bosco Primary 6 and 7 around the novel Divided City.
