Upper Primary AIM

This year, our UP AIM team has been proud to support a wide range of learners through inclusive, creative, and hands-on approaches. Whether it’s building confidence in reading, developing independence, or finding new ways to engage through games and technology, we've seen so much growth, not just academically, but personally, too. It’s been a year of progress, laughter, and learning together. None of this would have been possible without the support of our parents. Your collaboration and involvement have been invaluable in helping our students succeed. 

Students were encouraged to use Reading Eggs at home to strengthen their literacy skills. Through engaging activities, they practised sounds, phonics, comprehension, spelling, and alphabetical ordering—making learning fun and interactive!

Students have been sharpening their editing skills with a focus on speech marks and sentence punctuation. Using laminated sentence strips, they worked in pairs to spot and correct missing punctuation and spelling mistakes using board markers. It was a great way to reinforce the rules of dialogue and sentence structure in an interactive, hands-on way — and gave students a chance to be the teacher for a change!

Our students got stuck into phonics with some fun, hands-on activities. They played games of Snakes and Ladders using blend sounds, identified tricky phonemes, and used the interactive board to complete sentences with new vocabulary. These activities help reinforce key reading skills in a way that’s active, engaging, and full of smiles!

Students are learning to read between the lines, using clues from the text to make logical conclusions. They are also practicing how to retell stories clearly and accurately, highlighting key details and main ideas.

We used visual discrimination activities to help improve reading skills. This involves recognising details like shapes and sizes, which is key to decoding letters into words. By strengthening this skill, students can process text more accurately, not only improving reading skills but also helping develop visual closure, an important part of visual perception.

Having fun exploring play scripts! They’ve been working on reading fluently and adding expression to their voices to make the characters come alive. With plenty of fun and laughter, they’re gaining confidence and improving their storytelling skills along the way!

Students jumped into the SPELLER Game, taking turns reading words, spelling them out loud, and writing them down to earn points. There was plenty of laughter, a bit of friendly competition, and lots of learning along the way!