This year our Primary 7 children will work with both myself (Mrs Bunten) and Mrs Fox.  The normal and expected pattern for the teaching split will be Mrs Bunten in class all day on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday until 10.30am with Mrs Fox in class for the rest of the Thursday and all day Friday. We are both excited to be working with Primary 7! 

Term 1  
  
Literacy  
 
In writing, we will continue to develop our skills through investigating and engaging with different text types, collaborating to write modelled pieces and developing independent extended writing pieces.  Our writing approach involves each stage exploring description at the beginning of each school session and Primary 7 is no different. We will be writing descriptions using the 7 different perspectives of colour, shape, size, texture, doing, position and number.  In mid-September, we will switch to writing information reports which will also include further developing our research skills.   
 
In reading, the whole class will be focusing on the novel The Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell, initially. This novel will be worked on collaboratively to help everyone understand how to engage with a novel and develop further understanding of characterisation, plot and theme. We will revisit our reading skills of metalinguistics, visualisation, summarisng and inference to ensure a shared understanding before attempting these independently as the year progresses. 
 
Our spelling (for most) will continue to work on the 4-week rotation of affixes (prefixes and suffixes), common homophones, common words and spelling rules/topic specific vocabulary.  Spelling sessions will take place every day with a spelling check on a Friday.  Spelling activities will be a mix of written and active activities to help the children to familiarise themselves with the patterns and rules of spelling. 
 
Numeracy
 
Number Talks sessions developing our mental maths skills will continue at the beginning of each maths lesson with emphasis during these sessions being on the children explaining their thinking and the strategy they have used to solve the calculations. 
 
In term 1, we will focus on the 4 operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of whole numbers and decimal values.  Ensuring a secure grounding in these areas should help us as we progress into fractions and percentages later in the year.  We will also complete some shape work to break up the number focus. 
 
HWB  

We will be electing our House and Vice Captains on Friday 28th of August.  Following on from that, we will also be selecting our two JRSOs, our two Pupil Councillors.  We will be using the UNCRC Articles to create our class charter and to establish our Ready Steady Green positive behaviour approach.  
 
Our PE session will be on a Wednesday morning.  During these sessions, we hope to develop skills in resilience, effective communication, decision making and working with others through different sports.  It is the expectation at Milton that children will come with a suitable PE kit which is a plain t-shirt (preferably white), shorts or leggings/joggers (preferably black) and appropriate footwear.  This can be your child’s indoor shoes if they are secure for running.  No jewellery should be worn to PE and any earrings should be removed. 
 
Other 

Our interdisciplinary learning context will be WW2 with the children developing a greater understanding of how everyday lives were affected by this war and how the actions and inventions of this time in history still affect us today in 2026. 
  
Mrs Bunten 21/8/26