Primary 1 - November - December 2020
Welcome to Mrs Moore's Primary One!
Numeracy - November - December 2020
Mathematics & Numeracy – In this half term we will be studying:
Number
- Sorting coins in the Toy Shop.
- Touch count sets to 7.
- Reading numbers to 7 and matching numbers to sets.
- Writing the numbers to 7 correctly.
- Identifying the missing numbers in a sequence (ascending and descending).
- Order numbers from 0-7 and 7-0.
Measures
- Understand and use the language associated with weight.
- Understand and use the language associated with capacity.
Shape &Space
- Recognise, talk about and use shapes such as square, circle, triangle, rectangle, oval and star.
Handling Data
- Sort collections of materials for one property.
Mental Maths
- Counting forward from one, within five.
- Count forward from different starting points.
Literacy - November - December 2020
Language & Literacy
Talking and Listening
- Join in with repetitive refrains and rhymes.
- Listen to and follow instructions.
- Take turns in conversations and discussions.
Writing
- Writing their name using the correct formation.
- Understanding how writing is formed from left to right, a word at a time and how letters are formed.
- Knowing that print carries meaning and in English is read from left to right and top to bottom.
- Distinguish between writing and drawing.
Reading
- Using pictures to tell a story.
- Understand that words can be written down and read again for different purposes.
- Track the text in the correct order.
- Make one to one correspondences between written and spoken words.
Phonics
- Learning the skills of blending, segmenting and phoneme manipulation using sounds ‘v, k, l, r, u, j, w, z, x and y’.
World Around Us - November - December 2020
World Around Us (Topic Work) -
Our topic this half term is ‘Brilliant Bears’. We will be:
- making porridge and sequencing the steps involved in making this.
- Looking at real bears both old and new and discussing similarities and differences.
- Measuring bears.
- Discovering the types of real bears that live in cold and warm places.
- Complete science experiments to explore how polar bears stay warm and what happens to gummy bears in water.

Contact Details
Dungannon Primary School,
Circular Rd,
Dungannon,
County Tyrone,
BT71 6BE
T: 028 8772 2250
