Mr Carlton and Primary 5/6

Welcome back for what is sure to be a very busy term in Primary 5.6. We are back, settled and hard at work already, building the foundations for a very successful year of learning.

Literacy

Reading

The children will explore our class model texts, ‘Danny Champion of the World’ and ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ which they will complete in the next couple of months. They will be exposed to a range of reading strategies such as ‘Comparing’, ‘Visualising’ and ‘Metalinguistics’ to help them better understand what they read. The children will move onto using these strategies independently when they tackle their own novels later in the term. They will employ word attack strategies to help them break down and read unfamiliar or tricky words in their texts.

Primary 5/6 will enjoy sharing reading time with their P1/2 paired reading buddies, using strategies such as questioning to assess whether their younger partners know their books.

Spelling

The children will cover a range of spelling rules and will explore spelling strategies and word attack strategies that could be used to help them spell them. We will also encourage the transfer of their learnt phoneme knowledge across the curriculum.

Talk for Writing

The children will enjoy being creative during our Talk for Writing lessons. They will employ elements of the writer’s toolkit, such as personification and descriptive language, for example, adjectives and similes, to uplevel their writing. The children will work through the imitation and innovation stages before independently applying what they have learnt.

Maths

This term, P5/6 will work on their mental maths skills using the Number Talks program which will encourage them to discuss how they solve a range of calculations. They will also hone their times tables knowledge through daily class games, interactive tasks and active maths games. It is incredibly important that the children are revising their times tables regularly at home as multiplication seeps into many other areas of maths. The children will continue to build their place value knowledge of 3 – 7 digit numbers.

Health and Wellbeing

The children will be busy on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons by jumping on their bikes and taking part in the Bikeability programme. Everyone is enjoying being out and about and doing something different, regardless of ability. Following Bikeability, our PE days will be Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Interdisciplinary Learning

Primary 5/6 have began the term with a mini topic exploring the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Music

Primary 5/6 are lucky to have Mrs Cunningham from the Youth Music Initiative visiting them this term. If session 1 is anything to go by, the children will have fun making music and picking up new skills at the same time. Mr C will certainly enjoy joining in.

Mr Carlton