1. Meet the Teacher, Miss McKee 
Welcome to Primary 5

2. 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.

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

4. 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

5. 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

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

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

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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 = 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

11. Growth Mindset

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

13. To finish off …
Any last questions? 