May - June
Can you believe we are here already?! Summer term is upon us, the P7's last term at St Joseph's Tyrella. They will be hvaing lots of fun, including painting and working on the school grounds, the leaver's assembly and many fun days in between.
Maths
In maths we will be finishing off any incomplete topics and revising all others before our Summer assessments. This will include looking at different areas of shape and space as well as percentages.
Literacy
Pupils will continue with their narrative writing focus in the Summer term, this time combining what they learnt about writing the start, middle and end of a story to writing an entire piece. The children will continue working on spelling, punctuation and grammar and revise what they have covered already this year. They will then complete reading andf writing assessments.
WAU
We will continue with our Famine topic as we haven't yet completed it. The children will learn about the cause of the Famine as well as the consequences of it. They will seek to understand the devestating effect it had on Ireland and how it stills shapes the country today.
Religion
We will continue with our Grow and Love programme. The class will attend mass via the webcam on Monday mornings with Fr Fleck.
PE
GAA will continue on Fridays. We will be having gymnastic lessons every Thursday morning this half term.
Music
Tin whistle and guitar with Brian on Tuesday mornings.
UICT
Pupils will continue to explore various digital audio apps and will also be coding this half term
March - April
It's that time of year again when the dawn chorus can be heard, a host of golden daffodils can be seen and the world seems a little happier! We hope to be happy in our learning in P6/7 this half term, read on to see what we will be getting up to.
Maths
The children will begin by gaining understanding on factors, multiples and prime numbers. The pupils will identify factor pairs of numbers, understand what makes a prime number and identify them. They will learn about multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, 1000 and solve problems using these skills. Problem solving across the maths curriculum will be at the forefront of our learning this half term. We will also be perfecting our tables knoweldge, using Hit the Button and J2Blast to help with this, why not try at home with your child!
Literacy
P6 will learn about pronouns, understanding what they are and being able to idenitfy them in sentences. The class will revise spelling patterns such as adding -ing and silent letters. They will continue their writing journeys by studying the middle section of a story, understanding the features of the middle of a story, before writing their own. The pupils will continue to harness their reading skills with group and individual reading as well as various comprehension exercises.
Religion
We will continue with our Grow and Love programme. P7 will prepare for Confirmation. The class will attend mass via the webcam on Monday mornings with Fr Fleck.
UICT
The children will get the chance to create their own animations and will continue to explore different music applications.
PE
GAA will continue on Fridays. We will be having gymnastic lessons every Thursday morning this half term.
Music
Tin whistle and guitar with Brian on Tuesday mornings.
WAU
We will learn about the Famine this half term.
Jan - Feb
Maths
In maths, P6/7 pupils will begin by learning about division, understanding the concept before practicing the formal written method. The children will then learn the steps of dividing and multiplying by 10,100 and 1000, inlcuding numbers with up to 3 decimal places. Other objectives for this half term include:
to understand what a square number is; To find the square of any 1 or 2 digit number; To understand what prime numbers are; To find prime numbers between 1 and 100.
English
The children will continue learning about narrative writing. Having focussed on opening a story and describing a setting in the first term, the pupils will now look at the features of the middle of a story, including character building. Reading will be as important as ever, with class reading, group reading and individual reading for pleasure being a real focus for the children. Children will continue to develop their comprehension skills, as well as working on various aspects of punctuation, spelling and grammar.
ICT
The pupils have thoroughly enjoyed their time exploring digital audio apps so far this year and will continue to develop these skills this half term.
PE
PE will continue to be on Wednesdays and Fridays, with GAA sessions moving to Friday afternoons.
WAU
The children will learn about The Famine, focussing on the effects of a lack of basic resources on a place and on people’s lives, investigate a geographical and social issue from different perspective and study reasons for and effects of the Famine.
Music
Tin whistle and guitar with Brian on Tuesday mornings.
November - December
Maths
In maths we are focussing on fractions this half term. We will be comparing and ordering fractions whose denominators are all multiples of the same number. As well as this the children will identify, name and write equivalent fractions of a given fraction and add fractions with the same denominator and denominators that are multiples of the same number.
The children will use a formal written method to subtract numbers including decimal numbers, revising skills they have mastered in previous years. They will use rounding to approximate answers before calculating the totals.
English
The children will be writing their own stories with a particular focus on settings. We will look at setting descriptions within a range of novels and explore what makes a good setting description before practicing our own. Then the children will create their own setting for their very own stories! Our class novel will be Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone, one of Mr McEvoy's personal favourites!
WAU
We will be heading to outer space this half term as we learn about our solar system. The children will work together to research the planets and find out how they are different to earth. We will read the book Counting on Katherine, the story of the amazing scientist and mathematician Katherine Johnson who helped get man on the moon safely.
PE
GAA will continue with Liam on Wednesdays. On Friday's the pupil will work to build physcial fitness by completing a different workout each week! Check out the website for updates on this!
Music
Tin whistle and guitar with Brian on Tuesday mornings. The children will also sing with Mrs Boyd.
Christmas
How could we forget Christmas?! In December the pupils will enjoy many Christmas tasks and activities!
September-October 2021
Another Summer gone and here we are, back and raring to go! Let's take a look at what we will be learning in P6/7 in the first half term.
Maths
In topic maths we will be focussing on time, the children will be challeneged to recall time facts, revise digital and analogue readings, to tell the time in 5 minute intervals, to tell the time in 1 minute intervals and to know when to write am and pm. The children will also be learning to identify an unknown 2D shape, given information regarding its properties: number and relative lengths of sides, number corners, number of lines of symmetry, and size of angles.
In number the children will be focussing on place value, working with larger numbers. The P6 children will be comparing, ordering, reading and writing numbers to up one million with the P7 boys and girls working with numbers beyond one million. We will also revise addition and subtraction and the steps required to complete these calculations.
Literacy
In literacy the children will learn to understand that grammar is about the order of words in sentences, to investigate word order by examining how far the order of words in sentences can be changed. They will study nouns and verbs and understand the relationship between the two, as well as tense consisitency and avoidance of double negatives.
In spellings we will investigate and problem solve the rules governing pluralisation of nouns and extend understanding of the meanings and spellings of words using prefixes, e.g. auto, bi, trans, tele, circum.
The children will complete a large variety of reading tasks and will read all the time in class. I would encourage all children to be reading at home every single night. The children will have a group novel and a class novel that we will read and study together.
WAU
In this topic the pupils will be learning about themselves! They will learn about their bodies, studying the skeleton and focusing on the make-up of the eye. The children will learn about healthy eating and how important it is for our health that we eat healthy balanced diets. As well as considering our physical properties the children will consider our mental wellbeing and how we can maintain that. We will also consider where we come from and how that place has changed over time.
ICT
The children will be refining their digital story telling skills this term, using apps such as Book Creator.
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