In Literacy, the Unit Study
for Primary 4 for this term is the Worst Witch by Jill Murphy.
This term, the children will be looking at different styles of texts including fiction and
non-fiction. There will be lots of opportunities to explore different types of
texts. They will begin to learn the skill of note taking; scanning a
passage/piece of text to find the information required. Later in the term they
go on to look at how they can use their notes to enhance their own piece of
writing. Our grammar focus this term
prepositions, sentence construction, questioning, verbs and adverbs through our
novel study and a range of other texts. The children are continuing to be
encouraged to use a dictionary and thesaurus during writing lessons. High
expectation is expected of children with all written tasks both at home and at
school. Last term, the children learned to join their handwriting and are encouraged
this term, to use cursive handwriting in all written tasks.
In Numeracy and Maths, the children
will also be introduced to the concept of division and fractions and will be
reinforcing skills already taught in addition, subtraction and multiplication.
Within money the children are using a variety of monies to purchase items. We
ask that you would encourage your child at home to use money to buy items and
receive change in a real life context. Later on in this term our focus will be place
value and continuing to develop an understanding of numbers to 1,000.
In our Interdisciplinary
Learning ‘Lego League’, it will focus our learning around developing our
technology/ Literacy and Numeracy skills. We will soon be sharing how we are
using Lego in our classroom and our exciting technology challenges with you.
In partnership with our
Parish, we are continuing to prepare the children for First Holy Communion. Thank
for joining and supporting us for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception last
term. I'm sure you'll agree the children were amazing. Our next focus is
fundraising for HCPT. We look forward to seeing you at the HCPT mass in St.
Patrick’s Church (details to follow).
Please ensure your child
has full PE kit and all jewellery removed before coming to school.
PE days are as follows:
P4 – Tuesday and Friday
We are looking forward to
welcoming you to our class assembly on Friday 15th February at
9.30am in the school.
Thank you for your continued support.
