Welcome to Year 5/6 JL

Mrs J Lauderdale – Class Teacher

Miss S Scott – Teaching Assistant 

 

 

It is great to see everyone back and in the swing of things. Year 5/6 is a fantastic year group and every pupil is working hard to achieve the best they possibly can.

Start time: 8.45am

End time: 3.30pm

PE –  Wednesday and Friday

Children come to school dressed in their PE kits.

PE Kit

White t-shirt

Navy blue shorts

Trainers (any colour) or plimsolls

Plain black, navy or grey jogging bottoms t-shirt, shorts and trainers.

Jewellery – No child is permitted to take part in physical activity wearing earrings including out of school sports partnership events during the school year.

Movement Break

Every day, we take part in a movement break which includes activities such as: skipping, ball skills, outdoor gym, trim trail and the daily mile.

Reading

Reading is tremendously important to learning in school and is a fantastic life skill. In school, we use the Accelerated Reader scheme.

All children will be listened to, by an adult at least twice every week. When the children have read their book they should let the teacher know so that they can take a test. When they score 80% or more on a test, 3 times, they can move up a level.

Children are expected to read at home every day. They should have their reading record signed by the adult they read to and the page they are up to. It is extremely important children bring their reading books in every day.

Children also have access to our class and school libraries to enjoy a variety of texts.

Our Year 6 pupils have access to Reading Plus at home and at school. This is an extremely important, personalised reading programme that greatly enhanced reading and comprehension levels.

Homework

Year 5/6 homework consists of reading, spellings and times tables. Year 6 also have access to Reading Plus. I may leave other tasks to complete throughout the year on Google Classroom.

Children should read every day at home for 10/15 minutes. Reading books are to be brought back into school daily.

Spellings are learnt in school over the week and are available on Spelling Shed for pupils to learn at home. They should play at least 10 games, 3 times a week.

TTRockstars has been set for your child to work on at home for 5/10 minutes at least 3 times a week.

Codes for TTRS and Spelling Shed can be found on the back cover of your child’s reading diary.

Autumn topics

Our topics for the Autumn Term are as follows:

Maths: Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division, Fractions

English:  Macbeth and The Viking Boy

Science: Materials and Change of State

History: Anglo-Saxons and Vikings

Art: Architecture

DT: Stuffed Toys – Textiles

Computing: Communications and Networks and Creating Media

Music: Film Music and Composition Notation

PSHE: Relationships and Decider Skills

R.E: Sikhism and the Meaning of Christmas

French: ‘Les vêtements’

PE: Swimming/ basketball and Gymnastics

Commando Joe’s: Sir Ranulph Fiennes

Respect Rules

We follow our Respect Rules in school which include:

  1. Listen to and follow instructions.
  2. Keep hands, feet and objects to ourselves.
  3. Be polite and show kindness to the whole school community.
  4. I will do my best at all times.
  5. Use appropriate school language: no name calling, teasing or bad language.

Year 3 are working towards individual and class rewards:

Reward card: children who complete ‘checkpoint’ stages on their cards will receive a prize.

Class rewards – we work as a team to incur reward points that will go towards a class treat of our choosing.

Finally, as a class we came up with a Year 5/6 motto – which I think is perfect!

Teamwork makes the Dream work!

 

Useful Links

Follow these links to help you learn

 

Class News

Maths Week England 24

We took part in MWE24 across the whole week from 11.11.24. We problem solved daily puzzles, took part in a Teach Active number chase lesson and tried to break out of the Numberella Escape Room! We took part in an across country competition with TTRS called England Rocks. Great fun was had by all.

Hancock Museum

We visited the Hancock Museum in November. We took part in the Time Odyssey, which enabled us to use iPads to discover different historical artefacts around the whole museum.

Remembrance Day

After taking part in a Remembrance poetry workshop and a Remembrance Day Assembly, we created No-Man’s Land artwork using the medium of charcoal. We will remember them.

Grinton Lodge

Year 6 went on a residential to Grinton Lodge in the Yorkshire Dales in November. They had a fantastic time rambling, orienteering and taking part in bushcraft activities.

Decider Skills

Bethan from the Healthy Minds Team came in for 6 weekly workshops on Decider Skills. We learnt how to control our emotions and make good choices when necessary.

Fire Safety RAP event

In the autumn term, Year 6 visited Tyne and Wear Fire Station to attend their RAP (Reducing Accidents at play) event. They learned about safety around fire and electricity, talked to the RNLI and played games to learn about keeping safe near roads and metro lines. They finished by creating a badge about the safety aspect that stood out the most to them. They also took home lots of treats to remind them about the safety messages they had learned.