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Welcome to the Year 5/6 (Foxes) Class Page!

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Year 5/6 Summer term 1 2024

Welcome back to our Summer term 1! This half-term, we have our geography-based topic: Australia.

Australia

How is Australia different to the United Kingdom?

We will be learning all about Australia 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 persuasive text about coral reefs, inspired by our class text 'The Brilliant Deep' by Kate Messner. We will explore non-fiction writing and how to effectively use vocabulary and grammar to persuade our audience.

Guided Reading: This term, we will be reading the book, 'Great Adventurers' by Alistair Humphreys. We will use this text to build our prediction and vocabulary understanding and our retrieval and inference skills.

Maths: Year 5 will be exploring geometry, position and direction and measurements. Year 6 will be recapping their maths skills, especially in geometry, algebra and area and perimeter

Science: In Science, we will be learning about 'Living things and their habitats'. We will be exploring the different life cycles of mammals, amphibians, insects and birds and considering their similarities and differences. 

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 Summer 1 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 Summer term 1 in class. Please can all children 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.