Welcome to the Primary 5 News Page

The teachers this year are Mrs. Allen, Mrs. McKelvey and Miss Murray. Each class has classroom assistants: Mrs. McBurney and Mrs Ewart in P5MA and Mrs Milliken in P5RM.

What should your child bring with them each day to school?

• Pencils
• Rubber
• Sharpener
• 30cm ruler
• Pritt stick
• Biro pens for marking (blue, black, red or green) no gel pens please.
• Colouring pencils
• Felt tips (Not compulsory) 
• Healthy break and a bottle of water
• P.E - A t-shirt, a pair of dark jogging bottoms and trainers/gutties (this is kept in school and taken home every half term to be washed)
• Tissues and pump hand soap for the classroom 

What will your child be doing this year?

Term 1:

Literacy:

In the first term of P5 we will focus on various aspects of grammar and learn to edit a passage. We will continue to teach spelling using our new spelling scheme, and revise and consolidate our joined handwriting skills. Reading and Comprehension will be our main focuses this year, with the AR programme playing a key role. Creative Writing will include a variety of styles, such recounts, reports, imaginative writing and poems.

Numeracy:

The greatest area of focus throughout P5 is the knowledge and speed of recall of number bonds and times tables. These are vital to the children's progression in numeracy as these skills are needed so regularly, in a variety of topics. 

With the progress in tables and the use of multiplication, the children will be able to explore how to solve problems for all four functions.  Please see our guidance notes for more detail on literacy and numeracy contents.

World Around Us:

Our World Around Us theme for this term is ‘Prove It.' In this theme, we will explore the meaning of evidence and link it to Mesolithic times and how evidence has been used to show how Stone Age people lived. We will explore the Mesolithic way of life, looking at what people ate, where they lived and other aspects of their life. We will study caves and the designs in these and then the children will complete their very own cave man paintings.

Term 2:

We begin our second term with an exciting trip to the Pantomime on the Grand Opera House, which this year is Pinocchio. This year, there will also be a school production before Easter, giving our all our budding actors an opportunity to shine, and our year group will also be leading the Easter Service! In term 2 we will also go to the swimming pool every week. SUNI will deliver 3 RE lessons, "Amazing Jesus", during this term.

 Our World Around Us theme for Term 2 is 'On Our Doorstep'. This will allow the children to gain a better understanding of their place in the world.  We will look at how the world is broken into continents, then countries and finally take a closer look at Northern Ireland. We will learn about the geography of Northern Ireland: counties, main towns or cities, mountains and rivers. We will do some research on Ballymena, and find out about the Seven Towers! 

Term 3:

 Our World Around Us theme for this term is ‘Blowing Yer Top.’  This theme will help the children’s understanding of volcanoes and how to deal with anger. They will learn about the layers of the Earth, how volcanoes are formed and the movement of tectonic plates. We will move on to looking at the cross-section of a volcano and how volcanoes erupt. The children will be carrying out a science experiment and recreate a volcanic eruption. Finally, we will go on a school trip to Slemish to explore a real volcano!

Other highlights of Term 3 will be Sports Day, our summer fair and Prize day. 

Please take time to look though the guidance notes saved in the documents section of this P5 year page. These documents detail the content of the Literacy and Numeracy that your child will cover in P5. These pages will prove useful to help you support your child with their learning at home.