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Successful Learner Effective Contributor Confident Individual Responsible Citizen RME We will develop our discussion skills to share our views of Diversity and Equality and explore religious diversity in Scotland. Modern Foreign Languages French - Revising greetings and numbers to 30, days of the week and months of the year. Learning how to introduce a family member. German - We are learning about German culture and geography. We will develop simple conversational questions, follow classroom instructions and learn colours and numbers in a variety of fun ways. Interdisciplinary Learning Through our IDL topic of Space we will… Learn key facts about the sun and the planets of our Solar System. We will explore the rotation and orbit of Planet Earth. Explore the significance of the I.S.S as a scientific achievement and life as an astronaut (Tim Peake) Learn about the events of the ‘Space Race’ to the moon and its historical importance. What I will be learning in P5 Term 1 2020-2021 Curriculum Areas Literacy – Listening and Talking We are learning to develop skills in listening and contributing our ideas and opinions and progress our discussion techniques. Literacy - Reading Improving our fluency, accuracy, and confidence by reading fiction texts in our reading groups and with reading partners. We are also developing our comprehension skills by locating evidence in a text and using our inferences skills to demonstrate our understanding. Literacy - Writing We are deepening our understanding of VCOP (with a focus on connectives and punctuation) which will allow us to write with greater grammatical accuracy and further engage the reader in our writing. Numeracy Developing our understanding of place value up to hundreds of thousands; rounding to the nearest 10,100 and 1000.We are also learning to use ‘chimney sums’ as a formal written strategy for addition and subtraction problems. Maths Learning the 8 cardinal compass points, NSEW. Describing a turn using the terms; clockwise, anti- clockwise, quarter, half, full and exploring the degrees in a turn (e.g. 90 degrees is a quarter turn). We are also learning to read and plot coordinates within the first quadrant. Health & Wellbeing Continuing the ‘Building Resilience’ program with ‘Looking at the Bright Side’. Developing positive thinking strategies, reminding ourselves of what we are grateful for and looking at situations from different points of view (Growth Mindset) PE Ethos & Life of the School We’ll have the opportunity to: Take part in a weekly evaluation of our learning Be an active member of one of the three houses: Almond, Barnton and Maybury Be nominated for a Team EC Award Celebrate Wider Achievements Opportunities for Personal Achievement As well as getting the chance to learn in lots of different ways by making, saying, writing and doing, we’ll also get the chance to learn through different experiences. Topic related outdoor learning Class assembly held remotely Head Teacher’s award
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