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