Year 5/6: Stargazer Class
Welcome to Stargazer Class!
Meet the team:
Class teacher: Mr Prosser
Class teaching assistant: Mrs Dulson (Mornings)
1:1 Support for children: Sylvia
Stargazer class
Welcome to Stargazer class! Here you will find important information about our class.
During this term, we will be looking at preservation, hygiene and food preparation, through our new topic of 'Food Glorious Food'. As well as preparing a delicious meal, we will also be conducting a scientific experiment and looking at various techniques to cut food safely. Within PSHE, we will be further developing our understanding of relationships, changes in our body during puberty and how babies are made.
Year 6 will also be exploring the changes ahead and the upcoming transition into secondary school.
Maths
In maths this term, our main focus is shape, geometry and angles. Pupils will be required to apply and show the formal methods of all operations with increasing confidence. One day a week, the lesson focus will be on reasoning questions and mental arithmetic (10 in 10s).
English
In guided reading, our learning is based around the book "Song of a Dolphin Boy" by Elizabeth Laird. This will also inspire our writing, where we will be recapping and practising previous skills, such as: compound sentences, ISPACE sentence starters, subordinating conjunctions, relative clauses and paragraphing. We will explore these skills through a range of different texts, including character descriptions and instruction writing.
Important Class Information:
PE Days: Tuesdays and Fridays. Children need to come to school wearing their PE kit.
Reading Books: reading books will be changed Monday through to Thursday.
Homework: A new homework grid for will be attached below. Comprehension texts will continue to be set for the children to complete regularly on Rockerbox at home.
Reading: Please continue to listen to your child read daily, even for 10 minutes, and encourage them to complete the reading task in the reading journal. Books should be changed regularly.
Times Tables: It is important all pupils are learning (and continue to practice) the timetables up to the 12 times table. These should be known by the end of year 4, but it is essential that the children continue to practice and recall these facts.
Useful websites for times table practise:
Times Tables Rock Stars – Times Tables Rock Stars
Thank you for your continued support. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any queries.
Key Dates:
June 2nd - June 6th - Bikeability
June 4th- Homework due (YR5)
June 6th- Year 5/6 cricket
June 5th- Wellbeing day
June 11th- Whole school photo
June 18th- Team Superstars
June 18th- Science fayre (YR5)
July 1st- Transition day (YR6)
July 8th- Sports day
July 9th- Whole school trip
July 16th- YR6 fate
July 17th- Leavers assembly
July 18th- Last day