1. Year 7 Curriculum Meeting

2. School/PE Uniform Please label everything. Black shoes everyday.

3. It is important that your child comes to school everyday. If he/she is ill please phone to let the school know. On return to school please give a written note. These are collected and kept as evidence. Attendance

4. It is important that your child is in school by 8.45am. Lessons start promptly at 8.55am. Punctuality

5. A healthy break is strongly encouraged in line with the school policy. Break time A piece of fruit Or A sandwich Or A plain biscuit Water or milk

6. Language and Literacy Mathematics and Numeracy The World Around Us The Arts Physical Education PDMU Religious Education The Curriculum

7. Literacy Pupils are developing skills in Talking and Listening Reading Writing

8. listen and respond to a range of fiction, poetry, drama texts participate in group and class discussion respond to guidance, directions and instructions describe and talk about real experiences and imaginary situations identify and ask appropriate questions talk with people in a variety of formal and informal situations read aloud, inflecting appropriately, to express thoughts and feelings and emphasise meaning of what they have read

9. participate in modelled, shared, paired and guided reading experiences; read, explore, understand and make use of a wide range of traditional and digital texts; engage in sustained, independent and silent reading for enjoyment and information; extend the range of their reading and develop their own preferences; use traditional and digital sources to locate, select, evaluate and communicate information relevant for a particular task;

10. develop a legible style of handwriting Write for a variety of purposes and audiences, selecting, planning and using appropriate style and form use the skills of planning, revising and redrafting to improve their writing, including that which they have composed digitally; express thoughts, feelings and opinions in imaginative and factual writing; use a variety of stylistic features to create mood and effect;

11. Writing Genres Narrative Recount Report Explanation

12. Numeracy Constant reinforcement and extension of NUMBER work, increasing in level of difficulty and incorporating real-life problem solving. SHAPE, SPACE AND MEASURE properties of 2d and 3d shape. Perimeter, area, volume,axes of symmetry, length, weight and capacity. DATA HANDLING variety of diagrams, bar charts, line graphs, pie charts, vent diagrams. interpreting and creating them. ALGEBRA working on simple equations where a symbol or a letter represents a number.

13. World Around Us TermsTopicsSkills Term 1 Electricity Independent Project Work Term 1 Victorians Research based Term 2 The Famine in Ireland Transferable Skills Term 2 South America Pupil led learning Term 3 The Rainforest Year Band Trip Crumlin Road Jail

14. The Arts Music - African Drumming £1 per week Art - working with different Medium, clay, plaster, charcoal etc. Drama - assemblies

15. PE Full PE uniform - labelled Baseball coaching - Thursday 2nd October Swimming - After Halloween £2.50 per week Other coaches coming in throughout the course of the year

16. PDMU Year Band Motto - RESPECT (themselves, others, property etc Managing Information Thinking, problem solving and decision making Being Creative Working with Others Self Management Transferrable Skills - needed now and in post primary

17. Religion Alive O 7 programme. Mass every three weeks Service of light - November 26th 1.30pm Candles will be supplied by the church. Confirmation - to be confirmed (Early Feb/March)

18. Confirmation Confirmation - to be confirmed (Early Feb/March) Discuss the name they wish take and for what reason. Further details will be sent closer to the time. Encourage at home - songs, prayers, gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit etc

19. Homework Monday literacy - Spelling Tuesday Numeracy - Number Wednesday literacy - Grammar based Thursday Numeracy/Religion/ WAU NightlySpelling New Wave Mental Maths New Reading Reading Book/Novel CHECK and SIGN homework nightly.

20. Parent Teacher Meeting Individual Parent/Teacher meeting on Friday 14th November In accordance with school policy please make an appointment through the office if you wish to speak to the class teacher.

21. GL Assessment Children must be registered in Grammar of Choice by Friday 26th September at Noon.