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P5/4 Class Newsletter – Term 2

Welcome back!

Literacy

This term we’ll be focusing on visualising, predicting, and summarising in reading, as well as non-fiction writing such as reports and explanations. You can support your child at home by asking what might happen next in a story or encouraging them to retell the main events in their own words.

Numeracy

This term, pupils will continue to build their confidence across number, beyond number, and mental maths activities, focusing on:

  • Developing accuracy in addition and subtraction strategies

  • Building understanding of multiplication and division facts, and applying them in problem-solving

  • Exploring rounding and estimating with increasing accuracy

  • Strengthening understanding of fractions and their connections to division and factors

  • Working with money problems, making sensible selections, and calculating totals and change

  • Measuring and comparing lengths, areas, and perimeters using standard units

  • Reading and plotting coordinates on simple grids

  • Extending understanding of time, including reading clocks and solving simple time problems

Health & Wellbeing

Our focus this term is Food and Health. Pupils will explore healthy eating and how it affects both body and mind. You can support this by letting your child help prepare meals at home.

PE

  • Indoors: Tuesday

  • Outdoors: Thursday

  • Football coaching: Wednesday sessions

Please ensure your child has appropriate clothing and footwear for all activities.

Outdoor Learning

We aim to spend at least one session outdoors each week. Wednesday will be our main Outdoor Learning Day, but we may go outside at other times too. Please ensure children are dressed in warm, weather-appropriate clothing.

Expressive Arts

  • Baby Strings: Fridays – pupils will learn to play the violin, viola, or cello, culminating in the Christmas concert.

Homework

Weekly homework will be set on Seesaw and will include numeracy and spelling.

Reading

Reading books will be shared via Seesaw where appropriate. All pupils are encouraged to read for enjoyment and may borrow books from the class or school library.

We’re looking forward to a fantastic Term 2!

Ms Ritchie

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