P4 Parent letter
Primary Four, Autumn Term - information for parents.
Literacy
Reading - Oxford Reading Tree and Collins Big Cat (non-fiction)
Reading will be heard every day in class but your child will need to ensure all the pages set for each night have been read as this might not have been covered in school. Focus will be on increasing understanding of the text while practising reading strategies as well as fluency and expression. Children will also complete Guided Reading in class with their teacher weekly using non-fiction books. Children should also be encouraged to read library books at home.
Spellings
Spellings will start from 2nd September but formal written spelling homework on will only begin on 16th September and will follow the Linguistic Phonics scheme which is used throughout the school. Children will have spelling homework each night which they complete in their books and revision of all spellings for self-assessment on Friday. Specific details of each night’s homework will be found inside the front cover of their spelling homework book.
Comprehension
Comprehension activities will be based on texts and children will answer questions in full sentences. Children will also complete activities relating to their reading books weekly.
Grammar and punctuation
- Revision of capital letters, full stops, commas, question marks and exclamation marks
- Revision of compound words, nouns & verbs
- Revision of alphabetical order and using a dictionary
- Introduction of proper nouns & verb tenses
- Introduction of synonyms and prefixes
- Introduction of speech marks
Creative writing
- Writing recounts and descriptions
- Writing acrostic and shape poems
- Guided and shared writing with teacher
- Letter writing
- Writing stories
- Writing fact files
Numeracy
- Addition and subtraction to 100
- Doubles and near doubles to 200
- Odd and even numbers over 100
- Counting in 2s, 5s, 10s & 100s to 1000 & back to 0
- Reading, writing & ordering numbers to 1000
- Measuring length in m & cm
- Money to £5 using £ and pence notation, £1/£2 coins, giving change from £1/2 coins
- Time- seasons, months, days,
- Revision of o’clock, half past, quarter to/past in analogue & digital.
- 2D shape
- Bar graphs, Venn & Carroll diagrams
Number facts homework will be set each night, as detailed in the weekly timetable sent home and should be learned for a daily test, including a large test on Friday. The Number Fact booklet should be used to learn what is set each night.
World Around Us
Topic- Let’s Celebrate/Myself
Areas to be covered in the Autumn term will be-
- Myself- the human body
- Celebrations around the world
- My Environment (including mapping skills)
- Autumn festivals and celebrations
P.E.
Please make sure that your child brings his/her P.E. kit in a bag to school on Monday each week. All clothing should have a name tag and if your child has long hair, it needs to be tied back for PE. Pupils will be changing into their kit in class every Monday and Tuesday for P.E. then the kit will go home every Friday to be washed.
Other information
Jewellery – for Health and Safety reasons the only jewellery allowed to be worn by children is a watch and this must be removed before all P.E. activities.
Water – we recommend that children bring a bottle of water with a pull up sport cap to school each day to drink during class.
Break - A plain yogurt
Fruit
Vegetables
Mini cheese
Plain pancakes/scones/crackers - buttered/ unbuttered
Dry cereal - no chocolate or sugar-coated e.g. Cheerios
Sandwich - healthy filling
Homework- all homework activities must be checked by a parent or guardian each night.
Please check Facebook regularly LPS Parent Messages for group messages or Facebook messenger for private messages. The school website will also have lots of useful information too: langfieldps.com
If you wish to speak to me:
- Ring the school (outside of teaching hours)
- Private message on Facebook
- Email – info@langfieldps.drumquin.ni.sch.uk
RSMoore
