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Dungannon Primary School

Primary 6 SA

Welcome to Mrs Alexander's Primary 6 class.

 

 

 

Numeracy - September - October 2023

Mathematics & Numeracy – In this half term we will be studying:

Number

Understand mixed numbers as whole numbers plus a fraction.

Relate one decimal place numbers to tenths.

Understand place value of 1 decimal place numbers, representing using base 10 equipment.

Recognise spoken 1 decimal place numbers.

Read and write 1 decimal place numbers

Know with quick recall all single digit multiplication facts.

Use written multiplication methods to multiply any whole number by any single digit number, answers within 99 999.

Understand and use decimal recording of amounts of money beyond £100.

Measures

Understand the kilometre as a unit for measuring longer distances.

Convert between kilometres and metres and between metres and kilometres

Shape & Space

Identify an unknown 2D shape, given information regarding its properties: number and relative lengths of sides, number corners, number of lines of symmetry, and size of angles (acute, right and/or obtuse angles).

Understand and use terms horizontal, vertical, perpendicular, parallel.

Data Handling

Collect evidence to help decision making in a real-life context, and justify that decision, using data handling skills to identify and collect data, display data graphically and interpret results.

Mental Maths

Recognise spoken numbers within 99 999.

Read and write numbers within 99 999.

Know number “after”, “before” and “between” within 99 999.

Find missing numbers in a sequence (increasing and decreasing) within 99 999.

Mentally find doubles of any 2-digit number up to double 50 and derive corresponding halves.

Mentally add two 2-digit numbers, bridging the ten, answers within 100.

Know with quick recall all division facts which are the inverse of the known multiplication facts, including finding unitary fractions of quantities.

Know with quick recall all single digit multiplication facts.

Literacy - September - October 2023

Language & Literacy – In this half term we will be studying:

Talking and Listening

  • speak clearly and coherently to a wide range of audiences for a variety of purposes.
  • sustain purposeful conversation and reflect on participation and contributions
  • use and explore different question types - to clarify, to plan and to set goals

Reading (At appropriately differentiated levels)

Fiction:

  • understand the importance of a good opening and compare a number of story openings
  • develop understanding of narrative structure: orientation, build-up, sequence, complication and resolution
  • understand how characters are presented:
  • use of dialogue, action and description
  • presentation as victim, hero, villain
  • their relationships with other characters

Non-Fiction

  • understand the features of recounted texts in the form of sports reports, diaries, police reports,

Writing (At appropriately differentiated levels)

Fiction

  • talk about and plan their writing with teacher and/or peers
  • record their ideas, reflections and predictions about a book, e.g. through a reading log or journal
  • map out texts showing development and structure, e.g. its high and low points, the links between sections, paragraphs, chapters
  • write new scenes or characters into a story, in the manner of the writer, maintaining consistency of character and style, using paragraphs to organise and develop detail

Non-Fiction

  • write recounts for a particular audience based on subject, topic or personal experience

World Around Us - September - October 2023

World Around Us (Topic Work) - Our topic is Electricity

Some of the activities we will be involved in are:

  1. Learn about Alessandro Voltra. Investigate Voltra’s battery and make one of their own.  Discuss how Voltra’s invention could be a sustainable part of a bright energy future. 
  2. Light a bulb by creating a simple circuit, then draw it using electrical symbols.
  3. Learn about conductors and insulators.  Complete an experiment to see which items conduct electricity and which do not.
  4. Design and make a circuit that has a switch.
  5. Learn how a torch works. Children will design and create their own torch.
  6. Know about the word ‘series’. Children will make circuits with bulbs in a series and investigate the effect on the lightbulbs.
  7. DT activity. Children will create a design of something that they will make using junk materials.  Their design must include a working light. (Using the bulbs, wires, batteries and switches from the experiments.)  Ideas may include a lighthouse, a robot, a showbox room etc.  Children will be given one day to make their design.
 
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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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