April - June

Welcome back to the final term of Primary 4. It has been a productive year so far. The summer term will be busy for the children due to having summer exams and class tests, but we hope to make it as fun as possible! Keep an eye out for dates for Sport’s Day, our Sponsored Walk with St. Brigid’s PS and other fun family events taking place. Dates will be highlighted as usual in the school’s bulletin. Please remember to keep in touch with us on Seesaw and take time to read the important information on messages sent home. Below is an outline of the work being covered this term.

World Around Us

This term our theme is 'Let's Set Sail'. The children will be learning about and doing:

• Local and global geography – looking at maps showing oceans and continents of the world.
• Science experiments relating to floating and sinking.
• Art & technology project to design and build a boat.
• Famous explorers and pirates in history.
• PDMU lessons on being safe in the sun and beach safety.
• An online session with our Shared Education partner school St. Brigid's.

Numeracy

• We will learn 3x and 4x tables while reinforcing previous multiplication facts.
• We will be revising work on1/2 and 1/4 within fractions.
• We will be discovering the most common units of standard measure - the litre and the kilogram and doing lots of practical measuring.
• We will be exploring data handling through bar graphs and Pirate Venn diagrams.
• We will learn how to read and plot simple coordinates on a grid.
• We will complete coding activities on treasure maps using beebots.

Literacy

• We will continue working on neat handwriting and presentation skills. We will be getting our cursive writing ready for the step into P5.
• We will be learning about ‘explanation writing’ to explain how we designed and created our own vehicle.
• Within grammar we will be revising correct use of punctuation, using apostrophes appropriately, speech marks in a sentence and prefixes and suffixes.
• Within comprehension we will focus on predicting and questioning skills.
• We will continue to work hard on our weekly phonics sounds to improve our spelling.

Below are some links to online games that will support your child's learning this term;

www.ictgames.co.uk

www.timestables.co.uk

www.topmarks.co.uk

www.educationcity.com

All of the above will keep us busy right up to our summer holidays! Thank you for your ongoing support each term!

Miss Kane and Miss Topping