Welcome to Primary 7Welcome to Primary 7

Curriculum EveningCurriculum Evening

Areas of Learning

• Language and Literacy• Mathematics and Numeracy• The World Around Us – Science & Technology,

Geography, History• The Arts – Art & Design, Drama and Music• Personal Development & Mutual Understanding

(PDMU)• Physical Education

Connected Learning

• Vikings• Titanic• Money Wise• Flight• World Cup

Thinking Skills & Personal Capabilities

• Being Creative• Working with Others• Thinking, Problem-Solving & Decision Making• Managing Information• Self Management

Language & LiteracyA range of readers from Literacy World Scheme

Reciprocal Reading• Gives the children a focus as they have various roles.• Important that this is not a rushed homework carried out at last minute –

have a week to prepare.• Questioning – importance of ‘good’ questions.• Clarifying (Word Finder) – looking for words, phrases, ideas that might

need further explanation. Not a case of 3 short definitions of any random words.

• Summarising – Important skill – children tend to tell whole story rather than important points.

• On most occasions I will actually be the reader in class.

Linguistic Phonics

Building on the sounds they have been learning each year

Homework given on Monday for the week•Encourage them to learn the spellings throughout the week and not leave them until Friday•Sentences should be more adventurous now in P7 – don’t accept work that is not of an acceptable standard•Meanings, sentences, word searches etc are all used to emphasise the sound being studied. Especially important when categorising on Monday night they think about the week’s sound – not just stick it in any column

Encourage them to point out words in general texts throughout week that contains that week’s sound

Presentation of work

• Joined writing – only improves if used all the time

• Work should be dated, with title and page number

• Neatly set out• Always show working out – discourage

doing this on ‘pages’ and then just bringing the answer in to school

Mathematics & Numeracy

Important * Learning number facts and tables•Squared, cubed, triangular numbers, prime numbers•Fraction, decimal, percentage equivalences•Measurement equivalences eg. 100 cm = 1 metre•Tables – multiplying & dividing eg if you know 6 x 7 = 42 then you also know 7 x 6 = 42, 42 ÷ 6 = 7 and 42 ÷ 7 = 42Friday test is challenging, I do not expect every child to get 15/15. It focuses on a mix of table facts and what has been covered in class that week

Religion

Alive O 7 ProgrammeMain Theme is Spirit•Prophets•The Call of the Spirit•The Power of the Spirit

•Confirmation

German – linked with Shimna for lessons throughout the year

Swimming – Term Two Every Monday

GAA – Coach will be coming into school starting next Monday

Other Areas of Learning

Homework

Should take about an hour approximately but each child works at a different pace

• Written work – maths, English, topic work• Learning – maths facts, tables, spellings• Reading – reciprocal reading homework and

reading every day

Neatly presented!!

Thank you for coming!