Hello and welcome to our class

We are a mixed year 5 and 6 class

Summer Term 2022  'The Home Front'

English: Our English work this term will be based on our topic of 'The Home Front', which will include poetry and real-life stories from WWII, with a focus on the stories of 'The Lion and the Unicorn' and 'Friend or Foe'.  We will continue to use the 'Talk for Writing' process this term to help pupils develop their writing skills in a range of fiction and non-fiction text types.

Maths: Number work will focus on: multiplication and division, fractions, decimals and percentages. We will continue to develop efficient arithmetic skills and improve accurate recall of number facts.   Reasoning & problem solving using number, shape, space and measures will be ongoing this term. 

Science:  Light; Animals, including humans: circulatory system; recognising the impact of diet, exercise & drugs on the body

History:  Britain in World War II -'The Home Front', including a visit to Coventry to find out about the impact of the 1940 Blitz.

Computing: design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts

RE: What would Jesus do? (Can we live by the values of Jesus in the 21st Century?)

PSHE: The Taking Care project: Keeping safe, Rights & responsibilities

Art: Based on our 'Home Front' topic and WWII artists

French: Places & directions; months & seasons

Music: Singing and performing with an expert teacher as part of the 'Warwickshire Sings' project; learning and performing song in our KS2 production.
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PE: Tennis; cricket; athletics
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​Homework
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Each week we expect our Y5/6 children to:

• Read every day 
• Practise their times tables at least 3 times each
• week using their personalised log-in on 'Times Tables Rockstars' - their progress is recorded every time they play, and will also be regularly tested in school​
• Practise and learn spellings (set & tested on Wednesdays)
• Complete a piece of class homework set each Thursday - this will usually be science or topic based​
• Complete maths homework set on a Thursday (to be handed in by the following Wednesday)​

Meet the teachers...

Mrs Watt

class teacher
mon - tUE

Mrs Banks

CLASS TEACHER
WED - FRI

Mrs Dyer

teaching assistant
​MON - FRI AM

Mrs Dunbar

TEACHING ASSISTANT
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