Year 5 & 6 2025 - 2026

Miss Shackleton

Class Teacher Miss Shackleton

Teaching Assistant Miss Donaldson

PPA Cover Mrs Boyd (Thursday afternoon)

Spring Term

Welcome back everyone.

Here is a quick overview of some of the lesson content we will be covering before the end of half term.

English: We will be reading 'Shackleton's Journey' by William Grill. It will form the main stimulus for our writing. This half-term we will be writing magazine articles.

Maths: Our main focus this half term is fractions, percentages, shape and measurements.

Science: As we are interleaving our topics this year, we will be continuing to study Forces, Evolution, Living things and their habitats and Light.

Geography: North America and comparing it to the Lake District.

RE: We are focusing on different religious and non-religious teachings of suffering (hurt and healing).

Computing: We will use Purple Mash to learn about databases.

Music: Brass lessons will continue to take place on Wednesday afternoons.

PE: PE will take place on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Homework:

New spellings will be given every Monday and tested the following week. You should be practising your times tables at home. Parents, please sign their reading diary when you've heard your child read. We expect a minimum 3 x 15 minutes each week.

Maths and Grammar homework will be set on Monday to be in the following Monday. All homework is to be found in your child's homework folder.

We appreciate your continued support with regards to work the children are taking home, however if your child is finding any of the work too difficult or you have noticed there are particular topics they are struggling with, please do come and speak to me, or write a note in your child's reading diary.

Extra activities to do at home include:

Purple Mash - https://www.purplemash.com/sch/byley where the children can access times tables activities.
Accelerated Reader - the children can complete quizzes on the books they have been reading at home.

***A reminder that the children are to bring their school water bottle and school PE kit into school only. Your child is welcome to bring their own pencil case into school (though we do provide them with all the stationery needed). Can we also ask that you support us by ensuring the children are not bringing additional items into school such as small toys or fiddle toys (unless you have already spoken to me separately about this) to ensure the distractions in the classroom are minimised. Thank you in advance for this.

So, here's to a happy, hardworking and healthy term. Please do contact us if you need any more information. We thank you all for your continued support.

Miss Shackleton and Miss Donaldson