Echline Primary Curriculum Evening Miss Dickson

Welcome!

Overview of the year Term 1 Scots Focus Week & P7 Burns Supper P6s – Skiing/Snowboarding P6s – Bikeability P7 shared project – Citizenship P7s – Risk Factory Countries and Continents IDL P7s – Hopetoun House Project Bridge Walk and Chris Rutterford Mural P7 Camp JASS Presentations Term 4 Term 2 Health Eco and Outdoor Learning Week P6, P6/7 and P7 Show Sports’ Day Road Safety Focus Week P6s – Sailing P7 Prom Term 3 P7 Leavers’ Ceremony P6s – Living and Growing World Book Day

Routines Mrs McLoughlin – Wednesdays PE teacher (Mr Cheung) – Wednesdays Buddies (Shared Reading) – Tuesdays (P6s with P1s, P7s with P2s) School Library – Thursdays

Home learning Home Learning issued at the start of a new term and monitored weekly on a Friday through discussions and peer assessment Choice in all Home Learning tasks Bring in folders on a Friday JASS Projects to start soon…

Assessment Continual teacher observation Encouraged to self assess and reflect on targets Self Assessment through the choice of difficulty level of a task Peer Assessment of Home Learning Rotation for the assessment of writing – Self, Peer, Teacher

Maths and Numeracy Rotation set up over the week for Maths: - Teacher – teach concepts, discussions, games - Independent – written task - Games – Sumdog to practise core skills or other games Flexible groupings based on topic

Literacy Spelling – taught a spelling pattern and choose words to take home and learn Writing – Big Writing with use of VCOP, functional writing linked to themes and IDL Listening and Talking – Talk Partners, Newsround, story, class assembly, presentations (JASS), group work Reading – new reading format (P6 and P6/7): Reading HOTS – Higher Order Thinking Skills Teacher Follow-up

Health and Wellbeing PE days will be Tuesday (class PE) and Wednesday (Mr Cheung) Class Charter in each classroom and referred to regularly Traffic light behaviour chart One pupil selected from each class as Eco Rep., Pupil Council Rep., Rights Respecting Schools Rep. and JRSO Rep. (P6 only)

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