Primary 2&3

Below you can see an overview of what we will be learning. You can also view photos of our learning by clicking on the yellow stars below.

Teacher’s Email: hbyrne735@stcolmans.bann.ni.sch.uk

January & February

Literacy   

This term we will:

• Read and spell commonly used High Frequency Words (HFW)
• Spell CVC words e.g., hat, box, sit etc.
• Write sentences with finger spaces, full stops, capital letters, question marks and exclamation marks 
• Hear, read and spell initial, final, and medial letter sounds in words
• Begin our new genre of Non-Chronological Reports

Numeracy 

This term we will:

• Count in 1s,2s,5s and 10s
• Recognise, read, and write numbers within 10/20/50/100
• Make numbers using tens and units
• add and subtract
• pay exact amounts of money and give correct change
• use everyday language to describe position, direction, and movement e.g., left, right, forwards, backwards (Beebot)
• Introduce simply tallying for recording of data
• Organise and discuss the recording of data in pictograms and simple block graphs
• solve word problems based on our learning
• Problem Solve using the ‘Find all possibilities’ skill

Personal Development and Mutual Understanding (PDMU)– We will be focusing on ‘Forgiveness’.

World Around Us (WAU)/Topic– We will begin our topic ‘Amazing Africa’.  We will learn where Africa is located, we will explore African culture including tribes and traditions.

Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities (TS&PC)– We will be focusing on our 'Problem Solving and Decision Making’ skills.

• We will memorise and recall experiences and stories
• We will make observations and describe things
• We will sequence and order events
• We will sort
• We will make predictions and see possibilities
• We will give reasons and opinions
• We will ask different types of questions.