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Dear P7T parents/carers,

 

Welcome back after the October break.

 

Health and Wellbeing

 

P.E.

This term our main gym days are Monday (outdoor) and Wednesday (indoor). Our PE areas for this term will be gymnastics (indoor) and hockey (outdoor), with a little bit of Scottish country dance closer to the Christmas holidays. Last term we swapped to basketball, dance and team games. Could you please ensure your child doesn’t wear jewellery on gym days? Please note, children are not allowed to take part in gym if they’re wearing earrings.

 

Health and Wellbeing

Our health and wellbeing (HWB) topic this term will be about food and health. We will have another HWB themed week in the final week of this term where all our afternoons will be spent on health and wellbeing.

 

Literacy

 

Writing

We will be learning to debate, and to write persuasive and discursive essays.

 

Reading

This term we shall be working on our reading strategies by applying them in new contexts with links to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). We will be applying our Literacy Circle jobs we learned in Term 1 to carry out a full Literacy Circle. We will be focusing more on non-fiction this term. Again, if you wish to come in one afternoon from 2:45-3pm to read our class novel to the class, please just message me on Seesaw to arrange a suitable date.

 

Talking & Listening

The class will be continuing to build communication skills and the ability to work co-operatively in groups. They will also give short individual presentations.

 

French

We will be learning to talk and write about school subjects in French this term.

 

 

Interdisciplinary Learning (topic)

For our Term 2 topics, we will be aiming to explore the ‘isms’ (e.g. racism, sexism, ableism), and do some research (independent, paired and group) on related areas like refugees, discrimination, prejudice, identity etc. Our second IDL for this term is a STEM project (see below).

 

Fundraising Funfair

From Wednesday 22nd to Friday 24th October we will be running a Funfair for all classes. Parents/carers are invited to the Funfair with their child’s class on Friday 24th October (advertised on Seesaw before the October week). Funds raised will go towards the P7 Residential.

 

STEM

We will be taking part in a STEM project. STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. We are linking other curricular areas to STEM, with the aid of FemEng, to make Developing the Young Workforce links.

 

Numeracy

For number, we will be applying our addition, subtraction, multiplication and division strategies in new contexts, including word problems. We will be looking at using our whole number strategies with decimals, fractions and percentages. We will also be working on ‘beyond number’ topics, which this term will be co-ordinates, data handling and time.

 

Outdoor Learning/Science

Please ensure that your child always brings or wears a sensible jacket (waterproof if possible) and suitable shoes every day, as we never know what the Scottish weather will do!

In Science, we will be learning about different types of engineering with our FemEng project.

 

Other staff

This term Mrs Murdoch will continue to teach STEM on a Thursday morning, and Mrs Saeed will continue to teach Maths (Beyond Number) on a Friday morning.

 

Expressive Arts

We will continue to have optional Baby Strings on a Friday. We will also all have a screen-printing workshop from Print Clan, and Celtic Connections music workshops, which previous P7s have always enjoyed! Our school will be holding another Art Exhibition, after last year’s was such a success. This year’s exhibition will have a literacy theme.

 

Christmas

On Friday 12th December, it will be the upper school Christmas Concert, involving singing and instrumental performances from P4-P7. More information about tickets will come out closer to the time. On Thursday 18th December, both P7s will have their Christmas party together, in the afternoon. They can either come to school in their party clothes or bring them and change into them at the end of lunchtime.

There will be a Winter Wonderland at the school on Thursday 4th December from 16:00-19:00. The office will post more information about this event nearer the time. On Friday 21st November, there will be a dress down day to bring in donations for the rainbow hampers, as we do every year. You will be informed nearer the time of the colour our class has to bring in donations for.

 

Homework

Your child will still be given weekly spelling lists to learn, and a numeracy and literacy task to complete. All photos or files of work should be uploaded to Seesaw. If you cannot access Seesaw, then you can request a homework jotter.

 

If you wish to support your child further with their learning this term, you could discuss inequalities with them, and how your workplace or other places you visit address inequalities. You could also get them to research renewable energy sources.

 

Thanks in advance for your support!

Miss Taylor

 

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