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Primary 5 News
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 |
Term 3 Week 6
In Maths this week we will continue to reflect on the maths learning over the school year. Children will complete Got Its task sheets for: Properties of Shapes
Measurement and Data
In Literacy, we will reflect on our learning in non-fiction writing then we will move on to Poetry Knowledge To know a short poem To know the definition of noun, adjective, verb and adverb Skills To be able to recite a short poem To be able to write new lines for a poem To be able to respond to images in a poem creatively Understanding To understand the use of language in a poem In IPC we will begin our new unit On Tap - Water This week we will start our learning journey with an Entry Point, Knowledge Harvest and Explaining the Theme. All children will need a change of clothing for Thursday afternoon as we will be playing water games and it will get messy! |
Chocolate Exit Point!
The end of one of the most popular Primary IPC units - Chocolate! We had a great day making chocolate cornflake cakes and drinking spicy hot chocolate. No, no Miss Sonia did not eat any of the chocolate, I was just getting the hot chocolate ready ;)  |
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