Upper Key Stage 2: 'The Foxes' 2023 - 2024
Mrs Lycett
Teaching Assistant
Mrs Shaw
Teaching Assistant
Mrs Fields
Class teacher
Mrs Robinson
Teaching Assistant
Miss Wilcox
Teaching Assistant
Welcome to the Year 5/6 (Foxes) Class Page!
Keep up to date on what we are up to via the School Facebook Page and our Class Dojo page.
Year 5/6 Spring term 2 2024
Welcome back to the second half of our Spring term! This half-term, we have our geography and science-based topic: Planet Earth.
Planet Earth
How has space exploration helped us map out planet Earth?
We will be learning all about the Earth and space through our history, geography, English, science and art & design lessons.
Please see the downloads section to download our topic mind map and the knowledge organiser for this term.
English: This term, we will be writing a biography, inspired by our class text 'The Darkest Dark' by Chris Hadfield. We will also have opportunities to explore setting descriptions and recounts, all linked to our class text.
Guided Reading: This term, we will be reading the book, 'The Explorer' by Katherine Rundell. We will use this text to build our prediction and vocabulary understanding and our retrieval and inference skills.
Maths: Year 5 will be finishing their learning on fractions, before moving on to learning about decimals and percentages. Year 6 will be finishing their learning on ratio, before moving on to learning about measurements, position and movement and graphs and averages.
Science: In Science, we will be learning about 'Earth and Space'. We will be exploring the movement of the Earth in relation to the Sun, the movement of the Moon in relation to the Earth and the way that ideas about our solar system have developed.
Year 5/6 Staff:
We are very lucky to have the following staff to support and help the children in their learning:
Mrs Fields: Class Teacher.
Mrs Shaw, Mrs Lycett, Mrs Robinson and Miss Wilcox: We have a fantastic team of Teaching Assistants to support the children in their learning.
Mr Curtin: The children are very lucky to have Mr Curtin teaching them music every week. This will take place on Wednesday mornings.
Mr Milne: We are very lucky to have Mr Milne teaching the class every Tuesday afternoon.
Information:.
P.E Sessions:
During the Spring 2 term, children will need to wear P.E. kits on Mondays for PE with Mrs Fields and Tuesdays for PE with Mr Milne.
Music:
We are continuing our weekly brass lessons on a Wednesday morning with Mr Curtin.
Homework Explained!
Weekly Spellings:
Your child will have received their spelling homework for the Spring Term 2 in class. Please can all chidren practise their weekly spellings, in time for their spelling test every Thursday. These spellings can also be found on our 'Homework' tab at the top of this page.
Maths Homework:
The children in Y5/6 class are expected to be regularly logging onto My Maths and completing the weekly activities online.
Reading:
Your child has an individual reading journal. Please can we encourage as much reading at home as possible and a comment written from you when you can. Thank you.