Welcome to Primary 6

Miss Kane

Classroom Ethos

• Golden Rules

• Classroom Rules

• Circle Time

• Golden Time

• Group Points System / Lucky Dip

• House Points

Being in Primary 6

• Come prepared... (Uniform / PE kit / stationery)

• Homework issued on a Monday for a Thursday • Music linked to class topics and assemblies. • PE with Miss Smith every Wednesday and Miss

Kane every Thursday. • French taught weekly and incorporated daily into

class routines with Miss Kane. • Mandarin on alternate Fridays with Miss Harvey • Assembly on a Friday

How does the Curriculum work?

• Early Level – up to primary 1 • First Level – up to primary 4 • Second Level – up to primary 7 • Each level split into developing (.1), consolidating

(.2), and secure (.3), and learning journey outcomes appropriate to individual children

• Encourages cooperative learning and decision making • Separate curriculum areas are brought together in

IDL topics

Curriculum for Excellence • Maths (NMM, SPM, IH, Problem Solving, Mental Maths)

• Literacy and English - Talking and Listening, Reading, Writing (as well as spelling, grammar, handwriting...)

• Health and Wellbeing (MESP, Food & Health, Substance Misuse, Choices and Change, Relationships and Sexual Health)

• RME (Creation, Bar Mitzvah(J), Places of Worship, Fairness & Equality, Christmas and Easter)

• Expressive Arts (Art, Drama & Music taught through IDL)

• Technology and ICT (Cross-curricular) • Social Studies – (Europe, WWII and The Scottish

Parliament)

• Science – (Forces-Electricity & waves, Materials - Substances, Planet Earth – Biodiversity & Interdependence).

• Enterprise

Successful Learners Confident Individuals Responsible Citizens Effective Contributors

Active Learning/Cooperative Learning/Outdoor Learning • Develops interpersonal and communication

skills

• Range of activities including written, oral, and interactive

• Whole class, groups, pairs, individual

• Social goals along side academic goals

• Children are observed as they interact

Joyning the Learning

• Curriculum for Excellence (personalisation, enjoyment...)

• Linking learning to make it more meaningful – in a context! (focus on skills acquisition)

• Cross-curricular • Develops cooperative and independent learning • Working at own ability • All work is displayed - Do My Best!

Maths • Core resources – Scottish Heinemann, Heinemann Active Maths, TeeJay

and Active Maths resources/games • Differentiated • Basic Number skills

– Place Value: up to 5, 6 and beyond 7 digit numbers – Addition: mentally bond 2 numbers to 1000 and beyond (e.g. 360+640) – Subtraction: mentally add and subtract multiples of 10, 100 & 1000

from 4 digit numbers and beyond – Multiplication: all tables. Multiply 2 digit numbers by 2 & 3 digit

numbers – Division: divide up to 6 digit numbers with and without remainders – Fractions/Decimals: give equivalent decimal for common fractions, find

fractions of quantities, add & subtract to 3 decimal places. Convert between fractions, decimals and percentages.

– Money: rounding to find approx totals (4/5 digit numbers), converting p to £, find totals and change, rounding decimals, profit and loss.

– Time: converting AM/PM to 24hr notation, finding times bridging the hour, using a stop watch, using complex timetables.

Mental/Interactive Maths • Interactive

– Oral and written activities (3 times per week) – Differentiated to stage of mathematical development – Weekly Maths Challenge (Test) – Education City, iPad games and online maths games

• Resources – Daily workouts (individually, in pairs/groups) – Whiteboards – Show me cards – Games – ICT

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Problem Solving • APEX Problem Solving and interactive resources • Strategies

– Try a simpler case – Act out the situation – Draw a picture, diagram or make a model – Produce an organised list or table – Look for a pattern – Guess, check and improve – Reason logically – Work backwards

• Collaborative and differentiated to varying abilities.

How would you balance these 6 weights? 5kg, 11kg, 29kg, 19kg, 7kg and 23kg

How many squares are there on a chessboard?

How many squares are there on a chessboard?

Reading

– Book Bug / Literacy Links

– Novel Study

– 2/3 sessions per week using Core Reader (in class time)

– Reciprocal Reading lessons

– Home/Personal choice reader – books to movies research / book reviews

– Comprehension Activities-these will be linked to topic work as much as possible

Novel Study • Coraline by Neil Gaiman

• All aspects of language covered explore the author’s use of characterisation, setting and dialogue,

discussing the main ideas and themes of the texts and making links to our own experiences.

• Digital Literacy Develop comprehension and digital literacy skills through

comparing/contrasting the book/movie. Explore colour/character/camera as well as storyline/setting/sound that influence/create mood and inferential meaning.

• Supports Imaginative writing

• Promoting cooperative group work through active literacy tasks.

“Spelling is taught, not caught!”

• Nelson Spelling Scheme • Homework

– Words sent home weekly, patterns identified – Test on a Friday – Look, say, cover, write, check (SaCaWaC) – Includes common words which aren’t in the spelling

pattern. • Active Learning

– Games – Flashcards – Whiteboard work – Active partner spelling tasks

Active Spelling Strategies • Look at the first and the last sounds.

• Break down the word into shorter words.

• Use the illustrations to help you.

• Read around the word.

• Use displays, word books and dictionaries.

• Break the word into syllables

• Sound it out

• Mnemonics

Writing - VCOP Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers,

Punctuation Functional, Imaginative, Personal, Writer’s Craft

– Level Appropriate Targets – Assessment

• Peer/ Self / Teacher • Formative (e.g. two stars and a wish)

– Re –drafting – Celebrating Success – Linked to other areas of the curriculum – Imaginative writing project – Buddy Book!

Learning Journeys • Children taking responsibility for their learning,

with teacher consultation • Differentiated outcomes according to ability • Meaningful feedback for children in which they

can see which areas they need to work on, and identify their next steps

• Feedback for parents on a termly basis

Celebrates every child’s wider achievements

Sexual Health

• Primary 6 lessons focus on friendships, keeping safe online, gender inequalities and media influences, as well as the physical and emotional changes that they will go through during puberty. Feel free to look at the resources on display.

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Reminders...

• We are a now a nut free school.

Please consider this when planning packed lunches and snacks.

• Children are not allowed to bring mobile phones to school.

How many triangles?!

Any Questions?

Thank you