Term 1
Welcome to Year 5&6!
We hope you and your children had fun-filled summers, with plenty of rest too, and that the children are ready for a new year of learning. We are very excited to spend this first term building relationships with your children and offering new learning opportunities, along the way.
This term, our main topic will be around the Anglo-Saxons. In this history unit, the children will develop an understanding of the culture of the time period and also decide whether the Anglo-Saxons should be considered invaders, explorers (settlers), or both. Elsewhere, we will also be learning about forces in Science and covering netball in P.E. We will be covering relationships in PSHE and a unit around How we should live and who can inspire us, in R.E and World Views. In Art, looking at our drawing and painting skills looking specifically at the artists Antoni Gaudi and Zaha Hadid. The children will also participate in the school’s “Artist Week”, where we hope to showcase their artwork at the Bristol Arts Trail – more information TBC
The children will have French lessons every Thursday afternoon with Madame Allenby. On Wednesday afternoons, they will cover P.E. and Music or Computing in PPA. All children will, therefore, need to wear their P.E. kit on a Wednesdays. They will also have a second P.E lesson taught by their class teacher. This will be on:
· Thursdays for Hazel Brook and Severn
· Fridays for Avon and Malago.
Please refer to the uniform policy as we expect uniforms to be in line with this and we will support the children, if this is not the case. Children should only wear PE kits on these days above.
Finally, our Writing focuses this term will be based around descriptions, newspaper reports and poetry. We will be basing some of our writing on the book, ‘Beowulf’. In Maths, we will be focusing on place value, rounding, negative numbers, addition and subtraction.
We hope your children enjoy their new classes and their new learning! We would love to meet many of you at our ‘Welcome Breakfast’ on Friday 11th September from 8:20am until 8:50am!