May 2025 Let\'s hope the sun shines!

Primary 4 literacy

 It is hard to believe itis the last term of the school year. The year has flown so far. During this term the children will be building on their previous knowledge to develop their comprehension skills, writing skills and grammar.  Through our grammar lessons, the children will be developing their knowledge of verbs, using past tense verbs and writing sentences in the past/present/future tenses. They will begin to recognise homophones  eg two/to ; hear/here and use them appropriately. They will also revise skills taught earlier in the year such as alphabetical order and recognising rhyming pattern with words that don\'t end with the same letters eg. high/pie  roll/hole . The children will be learning how to use commas in their work. Literacy skills will be taught through their new theme -Let\'s set sail. 

Keep working hard at AR - all of the children are working towards their next \'star target\' on the display board in the class. Please encourage your child to read often at home too.

We are focusing on good handwriting and your support at home would be greatly appreciated - please encourage correct letter formation and good sizing of letters in the spelling booklets and written homework too. 

Primary 5

Please keep up the hard work with the reading and spellings - the extra support which your child receives at home does not go unnoticed! 

This half term we will be learning how to use speech marks correctly and the use of conjunctions, joining words. We will be revisiting skills taught earlier in the year such as alphabetical order, adverbs and using contractions eg do not - don\'t ; can not  -can\'t.  

In comprehension, we will continue to be looking at the questions for key details and using the passage to highlight key information. We will be developing our use of full sentences too in comprehension and reading activities.

Reading should be listened to every night and please encourage your child to read their AR book - the children are all very excited about moving around the star board.  Fluency is really improving and it\'s lovely to hear the children reading with expression. 

Thank you for your continued support with written homework, spellings and reading-it is very much appreciated.

Please refer to the main P4 and P5 class pages for more information relating to your child.

Mrs Young