P6/7
-Mrs McGrath teaches P6/7 on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. If you need to contact me, feel free to e mail me at bmcgrath851@c2kni.net
-Miss Judge teaches on Wednesdays.
-We are supported by Classroom Assistants Louise and Emma.
OUR PE DAY IS ON WEDNESDAY. Children can come to school in their PE clothes on this day.
There is always lots going on in P6/7. Some of the things we are usually involved in include:
P6 and P7
-Being School Council members.
-Taking part in the Irish News Critical Literacy programme.
-Attending blitzes and competitions.
-Taking swimming lessons.
-Participating in coaching sessions.
P7
-Being school prefects.
-Being involved in the Paired Reading programme with P3/4 children.
-Participating in the Sacrament of Confirmation.
-Taking part in the Eason’s Spelling Bee competition.
-Preparing for our next schools.
Literacy
-Talking and listening activities e.g. pair/share, group work, presentations, discussions and debates.
-Spellings/sounds weekly activities in class and at home and 6 weekly recaps.
-Grammar/punctuation activities throughout the year on a range of areas.
-Reading activities including guided reading, Accelerated Reader, class novels, active comprehension strategies, weekly comprehension activities and reading from a wide range of genres.
-Writing using a variety of writing types, including persuasive, explanation, poetry and narrative writing.
Numeracy
-Mental Maths activities and challenges.
-Number activities are covered at the beginning of the week.
-Topic Maths includes areas such as Handling Data, Measures and Shape and Space are covered later in the week.
-Maths Processes are developed throughout these activities and through problem-solving tasks that the children do.
Other areas
In World Around Us we study a range of topics. This year, these include “Inventions” and "Famine."
We tie in lots of other subjects to our topic, including ICT, Art, Music, Drama and PDMU as well Numeracy and Literacy. We incorporate ICT into a lot of the curricular areas too. In RE, we use the “Grow In Love” programme.
P6/7 Termly Overview
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All Saints' Primary School, 42 Tattysallagh Road, Omagh, Co. Tyrone. BT78 5BR Telephone: (028) 82243233