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Ballykeel Primary School & Nursery Unit

Miss Milligan Targeted Support

This year I will be teaching several pupils from P3, P4 and P5 for Numeracy small group withdrawal. You will find an overview of everything that you need to bring to class on the main year group class page, so please do read this carefully.

Within this small group withdrawal, your child will benefit from support to help them with their specific needs within Numeracy. Numeracy homework will be set each week, this will recap what your child has been doing in class. Therefore, I do encourage you to ensure that all homework is completed at home with lots of encouragement and support given to help your child progress within their learning.

Detailed below is a list of areas that will be covered in February and March.

P3 Numeracy

  • This month we will be continuing to learn tables each night so children have quick recall of number facts.
  • We have done lots of practical work in subtraction and become much more confident with this area. We will continue to use our knowledge of subtraction to find change from amounts of money e.g. 10p and 20p.
  • We are aiming to know our numbers to 50. We should be able to count to this number and recognise all numbers in written form.
  • We will use little ‘word problems’ to help your child develop problem solving skills and decide whether to add or subtract to get the correct answer. Please continue to help them with this at home by giving them little puzzles to work out for themselves.
  • In measures we will do some activities involving weighing things and measuring liquids. They will become more familiar with terms like ‘heavier’ ‘lightest’ and ‘half-full’ ‘empty’.
  • We will also measure time. We will begin by revising over the ‘o’clock, half past, quarter past, quarter to’ in analogue time and then move on to telling these times using digital clocks.
  • Please help your child learn the months of the year and keep practicing the little rhyme:

             ‘30 days has September,

             April, June and November.

             All the rest have 31

             Except February alone,

            Which has 28 days clear

            And 29 in each leap year.’

 

 

P4 Numeracy

  • We will learn x2, x5 and x10 tables along with revision of number facts up to 20.
  • We will improve our subtraction skills with exchanging up to 50.
  • Develop problem solving skills through practical investigations and the solving of word problems.
  • Money – learning about coin values, making amounts and working out how much change is needed from £1.
  • Time - revise o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to the hour on the analogue and digital clock.

 

 

P5 Numeracy

  • This term we will be consolidating the 4 basic operations.
  • Please do continue to reinforce the importance of learning their multiplication and division tables.
  • We will then move on to fractions, decimals and negative numbers. 
  • In measures we will learn about weight (kilograms and grams) and cubic volume.
  • In shape and space we will focus on 3D shapes and their nets.
  • In Data Handling we will look at tables and revise Carroll diagrams and pictograms.

 

Thank you for your continued support,

Miss Milligan.

 

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