Access Keys:

 
 
Ballykeel Primary School & Nursery Unit

Mrs Young Additional Support

Feb -March 2024

 

Here is a brief overview of what new things we'll be learning about in literacy within each each year group however you will find an overview of everything you need to bring and an outline of topics covered this term on your child's main class page, so please read this very carefully too. 

P3 

The topic this term is 'Time for a change'. The children have already been recording changes and are excited to see some more. Now that the weather is beginning to warm up (a little) we will be able to see some changes happening outside in our school environment. 

In grammar we will be continuing to work on punctuation; tenses; homophones, rhyming words and writing simple sentences with greater independence.

P4

In grammar the children have revised plurals- adding s/es ; ies; ves. They will continue to hunt for nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Help your child by looking for examples in their reading book. Comprehension skills are very important and the children will be developing their skills of looking for key information. 

Please use reading time each night to pick out things such as verbs/nouns/adjectives and perhaps your child could be the teacher and ask you to spot things from the story. 

P5 

In literacy, the children will be completing 'improving together' passages where they will hunt for spelling, grammar and punctuation mistakes and try to correct these. Why not write a little note to your child with some mistakes and see if they can spot your mistakes? They will also write stories, playscripts and look at poetry amongst lots of other things!

The children are mostly taking regular Accelerated Reading tests. Please encourage your child at home to read regularly and you can help your child by asking them questions about what they have been reading.

 

Thank you for your continued support.  Please continue to help them with their spellings, high frequency words and reading and give lots of encouragement for good effort. I hope you are enjoying seeing your child at 'work' via the See-Saw messages. It's great to use these opportunities to discuss what they have been doing. 

 

Mrs Young

 

 

 

 

 

News