Year 5&6

Welcome back to term 5 – we hope you and your child had a wonderful Easter and they are ready for a term of new learning.

This term is a shorter term which is only 5 weeks. Our main topic will be based on Earth and Space which will involve information about day and night, phases of the moon, planets in our Solar System and beyond, scale models and we will also be giving opportunities for children to do their own research to explore space further. We have already booked the ‘Explorer Dome’ to come and join us in term 6 to finish off the unit. More information on this to come.  

Alongside this, we will also be covering athletics and cricket in PE, health and wellbeing in PSHE, ‘Special journeys and places’ in RE and making a waistcoat for a fashion show in DT.

Our English focus this term will be based on non-chronological reports and letters. We will be reading a new class book, ‘Cosmic’ by Frank Cottrell-Boyce alongside this. In Maths, we will continue splitting classes into year groups where we will be consolidating some of the learning which was covered earlier in the year as well as having access to more reasoning opportunities.

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 music and Malago and Avon will be doing computing. All children will need to wear their PE kit on a Wednesday each week. 

Children will also have a second PE lesson (cricket) 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, because of the two Monday bank holidays this term, this may change and children will be told about this. 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.

KS2 SATs will be in the week commencing 12.05.25. We will also be doing some interventions to support Year 6 children for these in school time. More information will be provided for Year 6 SATs in a microsoft teams meeting on the 24.04.25.

Finally, this term also brings around some exciting school trips. Year 5 children will be visiting Noah’s Ark on 20.05.25 whilst Year 6 children will be heading on camp for the duration of the same week (beginning 19.05.25). Year 6 children will also be going to Lifeskills on (02.05.25). If you would like any further information about this, please contact your child’s class teacher.