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Ballykeel Primary School & Nursery Unit

Year 5

Welcome to the Primary 5 News Page

The teachers this year are Mrs Allen, Mrs McKeegan and Mrs McMullan. Each class has assistants; Mrs Backus in P5MA and Mrs Elder in P5LM.

February- March  2024

Welcome back after half-term:

Literacy:

We are continuing to develop our reading skills, focusing specifically on similarities and differences, as well as revisiting claryifying. In grammar we will continue to develop our use of spoken and written grammar. This will include apostrophes for possession and contraction, homophones, similes and the use of direct and reported speech. We are also working hard on trying to edit our own writing. In Creative writing we will continue to do some poetry appreciation, as well as writing our own poems. We continue to use Accelerated Reader to develop our skills and our interest in reading. We have seen very pleasing results already: the number of children getting 85% or more has skyrocketed. As regards handwriting, we are continuing to make good progress. This term we will concentrate on remembering our initial and final flick ups at the beginning and end of words and revisit difficult letters.

Numeracy:

This term we are consolidating the 4 basic operations. Please continue to reinforce to your child the importance of learning their multiplication and division tables. We will then move on to fractions, decimals and negative numbers. In measures we will learn about weight (kilograms and grams) and cubic volume. In shape and space we will focus on 3D shapes and their nets. In Data Handling we will look at tables and revise Carroll diagrams and pictograms.

World Around Us:

We are continuing our 'On Our Doorstep' theme. Within this we are developing our mapwork skills. This term we will learn about the Seven towers of Ballymena and explore a few landmarks of Northern Ireland.

 

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