Year 5/6 - Sycamore and Oak

Oak class shared folder

Oak Class homework

Sycamore Class Homework

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Autumn Term 2020

Welcome back everyone! We hope you all have had a wonderful and exciting Summer break and got to spend some quality time with your families and friends. We are very excited to welcome our new classes and begin our learning journey for this academic year. 

English

In English, Sycamore class will be reading The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe whilst Oak class will be studying The Nowhere Emporium. These units of work will help bridge the gap between lesson objectives missed during the lock-down period and into their new class year.

After half term, both classes will be studying Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo. This is a very exciting novel and we our confident the children will thoroughly enjoy it. We plan to use this novel as a stimulus for our reading, writing, grammar, punctuation and spelling objectives. The school will be providing each child with a copy of the story to follow along with. 

Maths

We will be working on our basic maths arithmetic skills. We will be encouraging the children to give reasons for their thinking and explain any mathematical concepts they have used. Through this, we hope the children will grasp the mastery elements of what we have been learning about. This term we will be doing a lot of recapping and making sure their fluency skills are embedded.

Science

Throughout this term we will be exploring the units Forces. This unit allows the children the chance to promote their scientific curiosity and understanding. We plan to conduct many investigations and work practically. Towards the end of last term, we started to conduct some investigations that explored what happens when you mix two materials. 

History

Throughout this unit, we will be learning about World War I and II linking to our class novel, Private Peaceful. There is much to learn and we are looking forward to it.

Music

In Music, we will be working our way through our Charanga units. We have heard some beautiful voices and cannot wait to see the children compose their own pieces of music using the instruments. Children are applying their musical skills to some M.C. Grammar raps in their English lessons.

Art / D.T.

In art we will be looking at the different techniques we can use to create different effects using pencil as well as linking our projects to our topics

P.E.

All children in school will be having PE outdoors to aid social distancing and we will be covering units traditionally covered in the Summer term. Athletics will feature. Oak class will begin swimming on a Friday. 

Computing

We are very busy exploring the concepts of Scratch and Microsoft Excel. There are many challenging components in both pieces of software. But the children are enjoying creating the own algorithms and spreadsheets.

SMSC

We love exploring the units on 1Decision. They are giving the children a good insight into the world and offering advice on how to conduct themselves as good and honest citizens, whilst keeping themselves safe at all times. Our social media unit was particularly effective. We are excited to continue learning about citizenship.

Children are welcome on to the playground from 8.40am. The schools takes no responsibility for children arriving before this time. Classes end each day at 3p.m. In the Upper School, parents who wish to have their children escorted home should make their own arrangements to have them met at the school gate and the person to escort them should be at the school no later than 3.#pm as the school cannot accept responsibility for looking after the children after that time, unless written permission is given for a club. Also, if you wish for your child to walk themselves home, written permission must be sent to the class teacher before the child can be dismissed.

Thank you for your continued support,

Mr Zaim, Mrs Foulkes and Mrs Bowen