1. Echline Primary Curriculum Evening
Mrs Ingram and Mrs Littlejohn

2. Overview of the year Term 1 Scots Focus Week & P7 Burns Supper
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
P7 Prom
P7 Leavers’ Ceremony
Term 3
World Book Day
Talk here about big things that are happening. Annual calendar things, e.g. big topics, sailing, camp, trips assembly, shows etc.
Swimming?

3. Routines Mrs McLoughlin – Wednesdays PE teacher (Mr Cheung) – Monday
Buddies (Shared Reading) with P2– Tuesdays
School Library – Thursdays
This section is for PE days, other specialists, library days, buddies, homework.
New ‘BAT’ (or newly named)

4. 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
JASS Projects to start soon…
Discuss new format for homework, talk about making children more responsible and independent learners.
Bring folder Fridays.

5. 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
Explain all types of assessment. Not everything needs to be marked by the teacher, this will be set up as a rotation.
Go over marking of spelling etc. Not every error will be marked/changed.
Verbal feedback will be given too – ask your child!

6. Maths and Numeracy Number work – Monday/ Tuesday and alternate Fridays
Non-number – Wednesdays/Thursday and alternate Fridays
Daily problem solving
- Teacher – teach concepts, discussions, games
- Independent – written task
- Games – Sumdog to practise core skills or other games
Flexible groupings based on topic
Talk about the setup for Maths and anything relevant for you and your class. Link to home learning section.
Regular assessments will dictate groups, this may change termly, weekly or even daily.

7. 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
HOTS – Higher Order Thinking Skills
Teacher
Follow-up
Talk about the setup for Literacy and anything relevant for you and your class. Also link to home learning section.
Go over marking of spelling etc. Not every error will be marked/changed.

8. Health and Wellbeing
PE days will be Tuesday (class PE) and Monday (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.
Behaviour, class charter, wider life of the school, PE, Pupil Groups

9. Thanks and Questions
Wrap things up and take questions.