Term 1
It has been great to have the children back with me in Primary 6 (although they are much bigger now). We are enjoying our new routines in class and everyone has settled in very well to Primary 6.

Literacy
Within Literacy, Primary 6 have started a class novel to expand and revise knowledge of all the reading strategies. We will continue to work on these over the next few weeks to ensure we are confident to use these with increased independence within our smaller reading groups. Our main writing focus in term 1 will be ‘Description’. After this has been covered, we will be moving on to ‘Narrative’. We will look closely at the features of these and will use our new Writing scheme to further develop skills in writing.

Numeracy
Within Numeracy, we have been having fun in developing skills in ‘Number Talks’. Children are using this to build foundations in their Numeracy work through mental maths and games. As a class, we have been working on Factors, Multiples and Times Tables which we will continue to practise throughout the year. We will be moving on to Shape with Mrs Cherry and Mrs Munogee will be teaching Addition, Subtraction and Numbers up to Millions which includes Place Value, Comparing and Ordering and Rounding within this area.

Topic
We have commenced our topic on ‘Natural Disasters and Weather’. Children have talked about what they already know on individual topics within and have strong foundations to build and develop their knowledge. They are excited to learn more and are thinking about what they want to know and are helping to lead their own learning too. They are looking closely at, Tsunamis, Volcanoes,  Hurricanes, Wild Fires, Earthquakes and the impact that Climate Change is having on our world.

Updated by Mrs Munogee - 25/08/23

Term 2
Literacy
Within Literacy, we will continue to develop reading strategies which will help to build our confidence to work with increased independence. We will work on editing skills which will help to improve all of our punctuation throughout Literacy and Writing. In Writing we are moving on from ‘Narrative’ texts and on to ‘Explanation’ texts which will focus on an action process or event and we will look at the features within.
Numeracy
Within Numeracy, we are using ‘Number Talks’ skills to develop subtraction strategies. We use Daily Ten and games for Mental Maths to help us improve in this area. Shortly, we will be placing a main focus, on Number Properties, Multiplication and Division. Children will be practising Times Tables daily to ensure they are confident to go on and have success using these within different aspects of this topic.
Topic
We have started our topic on ‘The Victorians’. Children will be looking closely at Queen Victoria and her family tree, exploring Victorian life for children and researching artefacts from this period in history. Our assembly will also be based on ‘The Victorians’ and we have already commenced working on this. We are having fun with the theme and are excited to see you all there in December!

Updated by Mrs Munogee 3/11/23