A One Year Time Capsule

Make a record of all the things you want to do, be and learn by the end of this last year
at primary school. Then put them away in a safe place, or a special container.

In June, you can all open the ‘hopes and aims’ and see if you have achieved them.
Some might have changed too!

Here are some ideas… Name: The school I want to go to next:

I’m good at: I need to work hard on: What I like at school:

What I dislike at school: Friends: In English I want to:

In other activities I want to: (e.g. be in the school play; go

In Maths I want to:
on the school tour; score a goal for the school team.)
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Write five clues about yourself on a small piece of paper.

Pick things that very few people know, so it’s really hard to guess who the clues
belong to.

For Example:

My middle name is Alex.

I was born in a house, not a hospital.

I lived in Dublin for a while.

I do amazing hurling tricks.

One of my favourite jobs is filling the dishwasher.

When the papers are collected in, they can be shuffled and read aloud to guess who
they belong to.
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Use your maths skills to fill in this diagram.

Qualities of a good friend

Qualities that I Qualities that my

have teacher has
 Letters Home

Often, schools have Parent’s Evenings or special notes for home from a teacher to tell your
parents/guardians when you do something to be proud of at school.

Imagine you can design a letter from your teacher to your parent/guardian.

What will you write? Look at the example below to give you an idea…

To Roisín’s Mother,
 
I am writing to tell you how hard Roisín is working on her Irish verbs. I can tell she is
practising at home because her weekly grammar and spelling tests have been so good lately.
 
At the beginning of the year I know she found this topic very challenging. I am very proud
of her for putting such a lot of work into this.
 
Regards, Ms. Byrne.
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What do you find tricky? What are you proud of?

How do you hope to do in your end of year tests?

Imagine your teacher is sending your parent/guardian a

letter in a few monthss time.

What do you hope your teacher will say?

 Solve These Back to School Questions

1. The first even number. 8. 100 ÷ 20.

2. 5 2 - 21. 9. Interior angles in a hexagon.

10. Triangular number that is also a

3. The sum of the angles in a triangle, minus 172
prime number.

4. 10,000 ÷ 1000. 11. 63 ÷ 9.

5. 810 ÷ 90. 12. 23 - 14

6. The first triangle number. 13. 1 x 1 x 1 x 1

7. 2 (2 2) 14. A quarter of 32 (32 ÷ 4)

15. Angles in a pentagon.

 Answers

1. 2
2. 4
3. 8
4. 10
5. 9
6. 1
7. 8
8. 5
9. 6
10. 3
11. 7
12. 9
13. 1
14. 8
15. 5