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Dungannon Primary School

Primary 6/7 FK

Welcome to Mr Kelly's Primary 6/7 Class!

 

 

 

Literacy - September - October 2023

Language & Literacy – In this half term we will be studying:

Writing Units

Talking and Listening

· Speak clearly and coherently to a range of audiences for a variety of purposes.

· Use and reflect on some ground rules for sustaining talk and interactions.

· Adapt behaviour and language to suit different situations and contexts.

Reading (At appropriately differentiated levels)

· Understand how the fiction genre determines settings and characters.

· Understand the importance of a good opening and compare a number of story openings.

· Understand that texts maybe rooted in the writer’s experience.

· Know how to analyse character and setting by studying the language used.

· Know and understand the features and purposes of instructional texts including:

- the intended outcome at the beginning

- materials or ingredients

- sequential stages

  • language of commands.

Writing (At appropriately differentiated levels)

· Talk about and plan writing.

· Record their ideas, reflections and predictions about a book.

· Use different ways to plan e.g. brainstorming/notes/diagrams.

· Map out texts showing development and structure.

· Write new scenes or characters into a story.

· Write scenes for a play applying conventions learned from reading role play.

· Evaluate the script and the performance for their dramatic interest and impact.

· Write recounts for a particular audience based on subject, topic or personal experience.

· Write instructional texts and test them out.

Numeracy - September - October 2023

Number

  • Recognise spoken numbers beyond 99 999.
  • Read numbers beyond 99 999.
  • Write numbers beyond 99 999.
  • Know number “after” beyond 99 999.
  • Know number “before” beyond 99 999.
  • Know number “between” beyond 99 999.
  • Find missing numbers in a sequence (increasing and decreasing) beyond 99 999.
  • Mentally find simple fractions of quantities, using known division and multiplication facts
  • Compare and order fractions with denominators that are all multiples of the same numbers.
  • Add whole numbers using the formal written method.
  • Round decimals with 2 decimal places to 1 decimal place.
  • Identify prime factors by making factor trees.
  • Identify multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs of a number and common factors of two numbers.
  • Read, write, order and compare numbers up to 1 000 000 and determine the value of each digit.
  • Add and subtract decimals to decimal places using the formal written method.

Measures

  • Estimate, measure and record lengths in cm/m.
  • Understand concept of perimeter
  • Explore square cm and estimate and measure areas using the square cm as a standard unit.
  • Understand the kilometre as a unit for measuring longer distances.
  • Covert between kilometres and meters.
  • Use all four operations to solve problems involving mass.
  • Calculate durations of time to solve problems.
  • Identify angles at a point on a straight line and other multiples of 90°.

Shape & Space

  • Recognise and name 3-D shapes and describe their properties.
  • Recognise where a shape will be after a translation on a coordinates grid.
  • Classify quadrilaterals according to their properties: square, rectangle, rhombus, trapezium, parallelogram, kite.

Data Handling

  • Collect and record data using a tally chart.
  • Interpret pie charts using fractions up to 10ths to work out proportions and quantities of a total.

Mental Maths

  • Add fractions and mixed numbers, with different denominators.
  • Mentally add decimal numbers to 1 d.p. without bridging the unit
  • Mentally add 4 or more single digit numbers.
  • Mentally add any number to a multiple of 1000.
  • Mentally add two 2 digit numbers, including bridging 10 and 100.

World Around Us - September - October 2023

World Around Us (Topic Work) - Our topic is Ancient Greece.

Some of the activities we will be involved in are:

Geography:

  • Labelling cities on modern Greece
  • Comparing physical features.
  • Labelling major rivers and seas

History: We will be learning about Ancient Greece.

  • Learn about the timeline of the Ancient Greeks
  • Explore the importance of Alexander the Great
  • Learn all about the empire
  • Comparisons Then and Now with Crime and Punishment, Medicines and Houses
  • Learn all about Athens and Sparta
  • Design a trojan horse.

Science: Materials

  • Properties of materials
  • Carry out several scientific investigations
  • Changes of state
  • Learn the differences between dissolving and melting
 
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Contact Details

Dungannon Primary School,
Circular Rd,
Dungannon,
County Tyrone,
BT71 6BE

T: 028 8772 2250

E: dthompson618@c2kni.net

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