Year 5&6

Welcome back to term 6 – we hope you and your child had a wonderful half term and they are ready for a term of new learning.

This term, our main topic will be around Early Islamic Civilisation and we will also be embedding some of our previous learning this year in science. We will be continuing our units on health and wellbeing in PSHE and ‘Special journeys and places’ in RE. In DT, we will be making an electrical circuit in the form of a steady hand game using our knowledge from the electricity unit we completed earlier this year. Alongside this, we will have RSE (relationship and sex education) week in week 1 and a sports week in week 6. 

The children will continue having French lessons every Thursday afternoon with Mrs Allenby. On Wednesday afternoon, they will cover PE and Music or Computing in PPA. This term Hazel Brook and Severn will be doing computing and Malago and Avon will be doing music. All children will need to wear their PE kit on a Wednesday each week. 

Children will also have a second PE lesson (dodgeball) taught by their class teacher. This will often be on a Monday for Malago and Severn and on a Friday for Avon and Hazel Brook. However, this may occasionally change and children will be told about this if they require a PE kit on another day. Please refer to the uniform policy as we expect uniforms to be in line with this and children will be told if this is not the case. Children should only wear PE kits on these days above.

Our Writing focuses this term will be based around reports, poetry and suspense writing. We will be continuing with our class book, ‘Cosmic’ by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. In Maths, Year 5 will be focusing on revision of place value, the four operations, fractions and geometry to ensure children are ready for their learning in Year 6. Year 6 children will be supported with learning to support them with their transition to secondary school. This will include work on investigations, estimation and use of calculators as well as more recapping of the learning they have already completed.

Finally, this term, we will also be having a focus on transition activities for the new school year and Year 6’s will be rehearsing for their end of year production – The Lion King! A busy term ahead!