Year 5 & 6 2026 - 2027

Miss Shackleton

Class Teacher Miss Shackleton

Teaching Assistant Miss Donaldson

PPA Cover Mrs Boyd (Friday Morning)

Autumn Term

Welcome back everyone. We hope you've had a restful summer!

Here is a quick overview of some of the lesson content we will be covering before the end of half term. The long term plan can be found in the tabs.

English: We will be using 'Star of Fear, Star of Hope' as our inspiration for our writing. The focus is producing a piece of fiction.

Maths: Our main focus this half term is place value, addition and subtraction.

Science: As we are interleaving our topics this year, we will be teaching all topics throughout the year. These include: Animals, including humans; Electricity; Properties and Changes of Materials; Earth and Space; and Living things and their habitats.

Geography: This term we are looking at factors that affect population.

RE: We are focusing on Christianity and its different denominations.

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

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

PE: PE will take place on Mondays and Wednesdays. This half term we are focusing on hockey.

Homework:

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. Maths homework can be found on the Maths.co.uk website. Their grammar homework is in their CGP book - their book has a grid where they write the set pages in the front.

We appreciate your continued support with regards to work the children are doing at 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