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Primary 5 News
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Please use the Seesaw app to find updates about your child's learning in Primary 5. QR codes have been sent home this week Please contact me if you need another copy |
Mathletics Mathletes
More certificate winners to start off the week on a positive note! Well done mathletes!  |
Term 3 Week 10
In Literacy, we will continue with poetry. We have written odes and now we will move on to insult poems. Knowledge To know a range of insult poems thorough reading Skills To be able to plan, draft, write and edit an insult poem To be able to evaluate your own and the writing of others To be able to discuss poems that you have read To be able to write punctuated speech Understanding To understand the use of speech marks around spoken words In Maths, we will continue to complete Got Its to reflect on learning and will continue with Multiplication and Division Knowledge To know Multiplication tables up to 12 x 12 Skills To be able to use factors to carry out mental multiplication Find the product of 3 single digit numbers using commutativity to help Use times tables and place value to divide multiples of 10 In IPC, we will continue with our unit On Tap - Water This week we will focus on Art and Music Skills Art - To be able to talk about works of art, giving reasons for their opinions Music - To be able to choose sounds and instruments which are appropriate to their task |
Happy Birthday!
One from before the mid-term break and one from after the mid-term break. Thank you for celebrating your birthday with us!   |
Term 3 Week 9
Welcome back to school after the short mid-term break. This week will be a reflection week in both Literacy and Maths. Literacy, there will be some fiction and non-fiction writing for children who were absent when they were done previously. Individual PM Benchmarks will also take place to prepare details for the end of year school reports. In Maths we will look at Multiplication and Division
All Mathletics tasks are now open and children are access all areas of Mathletics. Due to the time given over for workshops with the visiting authour Stephen Davies, there will be no IPC this week. |
Mathletics!
I think it is fairly safe to say that Primary 5 have certainly had plenty of certificates from Mathletics this year. This week we have bronze, silver and a gold winner! Great going Primary 5.    |
Happy Birthday!
Belated Birthday wishes to one of our Primary 5 pupils, who was away for their birthday. And the other Primary 5 pupils who celebrated a Birthday at the weekend. Thank you for sharing your Birthday fun with all of your friends.   |
Term 3 Week 7
In our Literacy learning, we will continue with Poetry Children are learning about 'Odes' and last week planned and wrote the first draft for their own odes to food Knowledge To know the definition of a pronoun Skills To be able to use pronouns to avoid repetition in writing To be able to find the root word and identify prefixes and suffixes To be able to use a dictionary to find the definition of a word To be able to discuss and ideas for poetry To be able to discuss and improve writing with a partner Individual Reading Reflections will continue this week In Maths, we will continue with Shape and will also look back again at Fractions Properties of Shapes
Fractions
In IPC we will continue our new IPC Unit, On Tap Our first topic will be Geography Knowledge To know how particular localities have been affected by human activity To know how particular localities have been affected by natural features and processes Skills To know how particular localities have been affected by human activity To know how particular localities have been affected by natural features and processes |
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