Welcome back!

This year I will be teaching several pupils from P4, P5 and P6 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. Please sign your child’s written homework.

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

P4

• We will continue to learn and revise the 2x and 10x tables and they will also learn the 5x and 3x tables. It is very important that the children spend time learning and practising these daily both in school and at home.
• We will be learning to recognise and find right angles in objects we see in everyday life and in common 2D shapes.
• We will begin work on fractions of a whole- thinking about 1/2, 1/4 and 1/3.
• Money – Children should be able to recognise all coin values and make amounts up to £1. We will work on making amounts up to £5.
• Time – We will begin to learn how to tell the time in 5-minute intervals using the analogue and digital clock.
• Weight – The children will learn how to read scales, compare weights, and convert weights from grams to kilograms and vice versa.

P5

• This term we are learning about division and fractions.
• Please continue to reinforce to your child the importance of learning their multiplication and division tables.
• We will then move on to decimals and negative numbers. 
• In measures we will learn about weight (kilograms and grams) and telling the time.
• In shape and space, we will revise 3D shapes and their nets.
• In Data Handling, we will look at filling in tables and revise Carroll diagrams and pictograms.

P6

• We have been learning all the about link between fractions, decimals and percentages. This has been a key area of learning throughout this year and the children are able to use the knowledge they have developed this year to understand and use the connections when solving problems. 
• We will also be doing some practical maths and measuring all kinds of things in our classroom and around the school. 
• We hope to then use our great measuring skills to work out perimeter and we are going to be learning all about how to calculate the area of different shapes. 
• The children will also be continuing to work on their problem-solving strategies in fun and practical ways.

Thank you for your continued support,

Miss Milligan.