Blackfriars Primary

Dear P7/6 parents/carers,

I hope that you all had an amazing Easter holiday! I have included the plans for the different curricular areas that we will be covering for term 3.

Health and Well Being

P.E.

We will continue to have our PE classes on Mondays and Thursdays. Our focus this term will be on Athletics/ Fitness, as well as outdoor games. Just a kind reminder that all pupils should be appropriately dressed for PE (trainers, polo shirts, joggers/ shorts). Pupils should not wear any jewellery on PE days. Pupils are welcome to bring a change of clothes (school uniform), if they would like to get changed after their PE lesson. 

Health

This term we will be looking at safety and substance misuse for the first half of the term. For the second half of the term, we will be focussing on planning for choices and changes, this will help pupils with their transitions to Primary 7 (for the Primary 6s), and High School for the Primary 7s.  

Literacy

Writing

This term, pupils will be learning about and will be completing procedural writing. Pupils will also be looking at poem writing to sum up their experiences/ memories in primary school.

Reading

Pupils will now be using all their previous knowledge to engage in as many literacy circles as possible, developing their knowledge about the different roles, so that pupils can apply them when they are reading their new pieces of text.

Talking & Listening

We will continue to develop our talking and listening skills through different presentation-based tasks, as well as drama, which all the pupils love!

Numeracy

We will be continuing to take our learning to the next level, by practising more problem-based questions within each numeracy topic that we complete. Pupils will also start the topic of negative numbers and probability. This term, we will focus on the revision of previous topics to ensure that pupils are recalling important parts of numeracy, which will also help them for next year.

Outdoor Learning/Science

In science we will be learning about Inheritance, Biodiversity and Independence, as well as Body Systems and Cells. We will continue our outdoor learning, linking our learning to every subject. 

Expressive Arts

Art, dance and drama will be taught throughout the term in a variety of ways through cross-curricular learning. We will be linking many aspects of drama and literacy, so that pupils can understand the importance of characterisation. We will also be completing various art projects in relation to future ambitions.

Homework

Thank you for all the engagement on Seesaw! Just a reminder that homework is posted weekly on Seesaw, this will include spelling practice, maths homework, and literacy/ a cross curricular literacy and COL piece of homework. Please also encourage your child to use Sumdog regularly to help support them in their numeracy learning.

Thanks,

Miss Arshad

 

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