Primary 5 JH
Numeracy - January - March 2026
Mathematics and Numeracy
Order a set of consecutive and non-consecutive numbers (increasing and decreasing) within 9999.
Demonstrate value of any number within 9999 in terms of thousands, hundreds, tens and ones (units).Understand the use of 0 as a place holder.
Round numbers within 9999 to the nearest 1000, nearest 100 and nearest 10.
Develop a standard written method for vertical subtraction Th H T U (no exchange, then with exchange), estimating the answer before calculating.
Mentally subtract a single digit from a 2 digit number, bridging the 10. (34-7, 43-8)
Mentally subtract two 2 digit numbers within 100, without bridging 10.
Solve a range of addition and subtraction problems, using both written and mental calculations, selecting the operation required.
Understand the x5/x6/x7/x8/x9 multiplication facts as repeated addition, and as arrays. Develop quick recall, using understanding of commutativity, and knowledge of multiplication facts. Derive corresponding division facts, using understanding of inverse relationship.
Use written multiplication methods to multiply a 2 or 3 digit number by any single digit number.
Convert time between analogue and digital 24 hour clocks.
Convert between different units of time to solve problems.
Identify angles as being an amount of turn smaller or larger than one right angle.
Use terms “acute” and “obtuse” to categorise angles.
ICT - January - March 2026
Using ICT
Understand how to keep safe on the Internet and display acceptable online behaviour.
Explore: Carry out a series of instructions using a digital device or environment.
Express: Create and edit text onscreen, combining images and/or sound.
Exchange: Identify and talk about ways of communicating digitally.
Evaluate: Talk about how to improve their work
Exhibit: Save their work.
Literacy - January - March 2026
Literacy
Identify the main features of newspapers. Predict newspaper stories from the evidence of headlines, making notes, checking against the original. To write newspaper style reports.
To understand how writers create imaginary worlds and to show how the writer has evoked it through detail.
To understand how settings influence events and incidents in stories and how they affect characters’ behaviour.
To identify adverbs and understand their function in sentences.
To practise using commas to mark grammatical boundaries within sentences.
To distinguish between the spellings and meanings of different homophones.
To use 3rd and 4th place letters to locates and sequence words in alphabetical order.
World Around Us - January - March 2026
World Around Us
Geography
About the location, size, shape and use of common landscape features (P, I, COT)
To recognise places and features, local and global, on a plan, map or photograph (P)
To use the 8 point compass (P)
To use 4-figure co-ordinates (P)
History
To identify characteristics of a specific time period e.g. changes in transport/communications/ inventions
(I, COT)
To explain how a local community influences its environment over time (I,COT)
To investigate how people used to live, including roles and responsibilities in society, and how these have changed (I, COT)
To use words phrases and conventions relating to the divisions of time e.g. early/late Ancient Egyptian times and use a more sophisticated time vocabulary related to a period of time. (COT)
To create and make use of more complex timelines using decades (COT)
To use different types of evidence to find out about the past e.g. oral, written, visual and physical evidence (P & COT)
Science and Technology
The name, position and brief function of the major body organs and that the function of the skeleton is to protect the organs and give the body support (I)
How diet, exercise, rest and personal hygiene contribute to a healthy lifestyle (I)
About the harmful effects of alcohol, tobacco and other substances on the body, and about the safe use of medicines (I)
That a push or a pull is known as a force (M&E)
That friction is a push or pull that can prevent movement, slow down and/or stop a moving object (M&E)
That a push or a pull can change the direction or shape of an object (M&E)
Contact Details
Dungannon Primary School,
Circular Rd,
Dungannon,
County Tyrone,
BT71 6BE
T: 028 8772 2250
