Chirnsyde Primary School Parents’ Information
www.chirnsyde-pri.glasgow.sch.uk
Class: P5
Term: 1 (Aug’12 – Oct’12)
This term, we will be working on the following topics.
Please ask your child about their work in school.
Reading
Writing Skills &
Features
Talking&
Listening
Maths
Environmental
Studies
Science / ICT
Art & Design
Drama
Music
P.E.
Religious & Moral
Education
Personal & Social
Development
Health Education
Using skimming, scanning & note-taking to
understand non-fiction reading;
Report Writing – Glasgow’s Coat of Arms
Recount Writing - playground memories
Talking & Listening in pairs & groups –
rules & values for a happy & safe school
Place Value – HTU with exchange &
carrying; Times tables – Instant Re-call!
Comenius Tales & Legends – focus Finland
‘Fox Catches the Fish’ – making a
sequencing story cube game for P2.
Word Processing; Importing images
Sculpture – making a 3D fish showing
pattern; Drawing – showing detail, size
and form.
Working co-operatively to act out Italian
legend Romulus & Remus - using Mime
Scottish Songs – tune, tempo, tone &
lyrics
Developing & Measuring Fitness – Aerobic
Capacity, Stamina & Strength;
This term, our homework will focus on :
Instant Recall of times
tables facts!
Using Base 10
to exchange &
carry within
TU/HTU.
Reading & saying
Digital & Analogue
time using past/to.
Research &
Note-taking from
original sources
–
www.kbears.com
is useful source.
Suggestions for helping your child:
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Parables
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Sharing , Taking Turns, Caring Classroom
Values – Respect, Responsibility &
Resilience
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Play Stop the Clock! for times tables instant recall every
night. Try & beat each other!
Encourage looking at digital time, but saying this using
past or to.
Ask your child to explain their HTU work? Why are they
crossing out? Why are they carrying? Encourage use of
the word exchange, and ask them what this means?
Help your child find & read internet documents/books
closely, to then identify the important key words to make
notes – not writing sentences or printing/copying info.