Meet the Teacher, Miss McKee  Welcome to Primary 5

Being Responsible for own Learning If you don’t want to learn, no one can make you. If you want to learn, no one can stop you.

Expectations: building resilience and independence while being the best that we can be

What will be we focusing on for the first few weeks? Creating a supportive and fair environment in which to work Team work Becoming familiar with the expectations of being in Primary 5 Challenging ourselves Numeracy: -Mental maths strategies -Times Tables -A reminder of basic number work Literacy: -Developing our writing by using VCOP and up-levelling sentences Health & Wellbeing: -Growth Mind-set -Being a good friend and a good team member

Focus for Term 2: October- December Health & Wellbeing: -Tennis (tennis tournament) -Understanding how to express our feelings and develop the ability to talk about them (Knowing Me, Knowing You) Literacy: -Developing our reading skills and enjoyment of books -Using a variety of strategies to improve and develop our writing -Word Aware Numeracy: Further developing mental maths strategies Continued Times tables work to allow progression into division Transferring the maths skills we are learning into a context Project: -Children will be given specific outcomes which we have to cover and then have the opportunity to discuss and choose which topics they would like to learn about

Positive Behaviour Management Class rules developed by children House points Star of the Week Restorative approaches Traffic lights system

Integrated Day An explanation of how children work and learn within the format of an integrated day

Curriculum for Excellence a brief explanation about the levels which your child will progress through as they move through the school Early Level First Level Second Level Third Level Fourth Level Senior Phase

Home/School Links Homework diary - absence notes - arrange appointments - issues that may impact your child’s day - traffic lights - reminders Twitter: P5 and Miss McKee Water bottle & snack Bring a jacket as we may go outside to work Gym kit (Wednesday and Friday) Names on everything please Children are responsible for their own property.

Terms used in P.5 We use many specific words/phrases in school which your child should be able to explain to you. e.g. phonics – another name for the learning of “sounds” phoneme – a single unit of sound, e.g. ‘ay’ in holiday. number bonds - two numbers that go together to make another number, e.g. 6+4=10 (this is called a ‘number bond of 10’). Children should have automatic recall of number bonds so they can transfer in larger sums, e.g. 60 + 40 = 100 Up-levelling – using VCOP (Vocabulary, Connective, Openers & Punctuation) to improve a piece of writing. Metacognition – thinking about thinking, e.g. understanding how you think / learn Visualisation – the picture that you create in your head when you read a text Metalinguistics – focusing on words and their meanings

Growth Mindset

Homework has Changed! Explanation of thinking behind the new skills based homework Link with Graeme Cluster Skills Progression Pathway Opportunity for Questions

To finish off … Any last questions? 