Dungannon Primary School

Welcome to Mrs Clayton's and Mrs Elliotts Class

Literacy - April - June 2026

Literacy

Communication:

Makaton

· Sign of the week

· Core Word of the Week

 

Talking and Listening:

Attention Skills

• Listening to a wide range of stories, poems, songs and music.

• Following instructions.

 

Phonological Awareness

• Identifying and manipulating phonemes.

 

Social Use of Language

• Understanding non-verbal signals.

• Adopting or assuming a role relevant to context.

 

Language and Thinking

• Talking about experiences, pictures and stories.

• Talking about their work, play and things they have made.

 

Extended Vocabulary

• Listening and responding to adults and peers.

 

Reading:

• Know how to handle and care for books.

• Listen to a range of stories, poems and non-fiction texts read to them by adults/other pupils.

• Read with some independence.

 

Writing:

• Distinguish between drawing and writing.

• Talk about the ideas represented in their drawings.

Numeracy - April - June 2026

Numeracy

Understanding Money:

• Use money in various contexts.

• Talk about things that they want to spend money on.

• Understand the need to pay for goods.

• Become familiar with coins in everyday use.

• Talk about different ways we can pay for goods, for example, cash and/or card.

• Use their number skills in shopping activities.

 

Measure:

• Talk about significant times on the clock, for example, lunch time, home time.

• Read o’clock and half past times on analogue and digital clocks

• Set an analogue clock to o’clock and half past times.

• Compare two intervals of time, talk about their observations in terms of took longer/shorter time.

• Explore time patterns, for example, morning afternoon, evening, days of the week.

• Choose and use, with guidance, non-standard units to measure time; talk about their work.

Topic Work - April - June 2026

Topic Work

My Body

· To name different parts of my body.

· To point to or show parts of my body when asked.

· To talk about what some body parts do (e.g., eyes help me see).

· To recognise that everyone’s body is special and different.

· To use words or pictures to describe my body.

· To look after my body by keeping it clean and healthy.

· To follow simple instructions to move my body (e.g., jump, stretch, clap).

 

Minibeasts

· To name some minibeasts (e.g., spider, worm, butterfly).

· To say where minibeasts live (e.g., under logs, in the garden).

· To describe what a minibeast looks like (e.g., legs, wings, colours).

· To sort minibeasts by simple features (e.g., has wings / no wings).

· To show care and respect for living things.

· To say that frogs and butterflies grow and change.

· To name the main stages (egg, tadpole, frog/ egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly).

· To put the stages in the correct order and to recognise the difference between each stage.

· To describe what happens at each stage in simple words.

· To match pictures of each stage.

 
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Contact Details

Dungannon Primary School,
Circular Rd,
Dungannon,
County Tyrone,
BT71 6BE

T: 028 8772 2250

E: dthompson618@c2kni.net

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