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Year 5/6 Summer Term 1 2025

This half-term, we have an art and DT-based topic: Plastic Planet.

Plastic Planet

How can we be sustainable?

We will be learning all about 'Plastic Planet' through our English, Art and DT 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 letter to convince others to reduce, reuse and recycle plastic. We will use our class text, 'Plastic Planet' by Georgia Amson-Bradshaw, to help us understand more about the issue with plastic.

Guided Reading: This term, we will be recapping our skills across fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts.

Maths: We will be learning about area, perimeter and volume. We will then move onto shape, where will we recap our knowledge of 2D and 3D shapes and we will learn about how to measure and find angles. Finally, we will learn about algebra.

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 K and Miss Ollerton: 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.

Information:.

P.E Sessions:

During the Summer 1 term, children will need to wear P.E. kits on Mondays and Tuesdays for PE. 

Music:

We will be having our weekly brass lessons on a Wednesday morning with Mr Curtin. 

Homework Explained!

Weekly Spellings:

Your child will receive their spelling homework on a Friday. Please can all children practise their weekly spellings, in time for their spelling test the following Thursday. 

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 a school reading book and 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. 

Timestables:

Your child will be given a login for Times Tables Rock stars, an exciting online tool to help them to learn times tables. Your child will have a weekly times tables test on a Thursday and we thank you in advance for your support in helping them to prepare for this. 

Dojo homework:

This can be found on the homework tab at the top of this page and on ClassDojo. While this is not compulsary, it's a great way to learn more about our topic and earn Dojo Points to convert in our shop at the end of term.