Welcome to Mr Kelly's Primary 6/7 Class!

Language & Literacy

Talking and Listening

· Offer reasons and evidence for their views, considering alternative opinions

· Sustain conversation

· Investigate how talk varies depending on context, e.g. age, gender, purpose, familiarity

· Make decisions and examine options, weigh up pros and cons and show whether they agree or disagree

Reading (At appropriately differentiated levels)

· Understand and use the terms ‘fact’ and ‘opinion’ and begin to distinguish the two in reading and other media.

· Know and understand what a recount is as a non-fiction genre.

· Understand that newspapers are a form and identify the main features including: lay-out, range of information, level of formality, organisation of articles, advertisements and headlines.

· Predict newspaper stories from the evidence of headlines, checking against the original.

· Know and understand the features and purposes of instructional texts.

Writing (At appropriately differentiated levels)

· Write newspaper recounts, e.g. about school events or an incident from a story including:

· Write clear instructions using conventions learned from reading.

· Improve the cohesion of written instructions and directions through the use of link phrases and organisational devices such as sub-headings and numbering.

World Around Us (Topic Work) - Our topic is Lough Neagh.

Geography

· Locate Lough Neagh on map.

· Learn about the rivers that are tributaries or affluents.

· Compare Lough Neagh to other lakes in Northern Ireland and UK.

· Locate lakes from around the world.

History

· To investigate how people used to live, including roles and responsibilities in society, and how these have changed (I, COT).

· To investigate issues associated with the conservation, preservation and regeneration of the local environment (I & P).

· To understand why people in the past moved from one place to another and to consider how they might have felt e.g. Mesolithic hunters and food gatherers, the Vikings/movement from town to country in Victorian times (M&E, COT).

Science

· That a push or a pull is known as a force (M&E). That a push or a pull can change the direction or shape of an object (M&E).

· Know that some materials are found in the natural world, other materials are made by people (I, P).

· Recognise properties of materials including strength, flexibility, transparency, waterproofing, hardness/softness, conductor/insulator, magnetism and how these affect their use (I, P).

· Know that materials can be solid, liquid or gas (M&E, P, COT).

· Know that some materials will dissolve in water, others will not (COT).

· Know that cooling/heating (freezing and melting) can change some everyday materials (COT).

· Know that some changes are reversible or irreversible, desirable or undesirable (COT).