Year 5/6

Year 5/6

Welcome to Years 5 & 6

Hello and welcome to our class page.

This half term our Christian value is Respect and our daily collective worship will focus on this value.

This half term in English, the children will be consolidating previously taught grammatical features, learning new key grammatical features as well as deepening their understanding of complex sentences. Our whole class text is 'The Girl of Ink and Stars,' and our reading and writing will link to our text as well as our science topic on Living Things and Their Habitats and our History topic on the continents of North America. We will be writing biographies about David Attenborough and Jane Goodall and we will also be writing our own character and setting descriptions.

In mathematics, Year 5 will be learning about decimals, percentages, graphs and tables. Both year groups will develop their knowledge of area and perimeter with the year 6s advancing to calculating volumes. Year 6 will be multiplying and dividing by decimals as well as finding percentages of numbers and investigating the relationships between percentages, fractions and decimal numbers.

In Science, we will be learning about Living Things and their Habitats. The children will be learning to identify observable characteristics used to classify living things, sort group animals using a classification key, compare and contrast the life cycles of different mammals, reptiles and plants before explaining how microorganisms are classified.

Our Geography work this term focuses on the continent of North America. We will practice our map reading skills whilst locating its physical and human features and also deepen our understanding of climate, time zones and settlements. We will look at how and why places change and discuss ways in which negative changes can be reduced.

In our RE lessons we will be discussing life journeys, focusing particularly on the beliefs of Hindus and Muslims and comparing them to our own. This will include looking at ceremonies, rites of passage and other celebrations through the full cycle of life from birth to death.

In French we will be learning how to discuss the weather - always handy when making polite conversation!

In DT, we will be investigating how cams can add/change movements by adding them to moving African animal models.

In Computing, we will be using flat-file databases to group, order and present data. Our internet safety work this term will focus on how to keep our data private and secure online which will include how we can maximize the effectiveness of passwords and the importance of following age restrictions.

In PSHE we will be exploring the many ways in which we can be different and discussing how these differences can be perceived. In particular, we are going to focus on the importance of celebrating them as well as managing the range of emotions that differences can evoke.

We shall have PE on a Tuesday afternoon; children will be able to come in their PE kits on this day. If there is any change to this, you will be notified by Seesaw or via the app.

In addition to this, children will need to read 3 times per week and have their reading records signed.

In order to aid transition, in the Summer term, year 6 children will be set Maths and English homework tasks on seesaw each week.