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Thank you for attending the Meet the Teacher sessions at the start of the year. We hope you found it informative. A summary of the meetings can be viewed below.
(Year B 2024/25)
This Autumn term in English, we’re diving into some incredible stories that will spark your imagination and fuel your creativity. In Autumn 1, we’ll embark on an enchanting adventure with The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie. This fantastic book will inspire us to write our very own fantasy stories, where the only limit is our imagination!
After half term, we will shift gears and immerse ourselves in the timeless classic, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Get ready to explore the depths of character development as we pen captivating character descriptions that bring Ebenezer Scrooge and his fellow characters to life.
It’s going to be an exciting term filled with creativity, exploration, and lots of fun in our English lessons. Let’s unleash our storytelling abilities and see where our writing takes us!
In Year 6, the children are focusing on Place Value, Addition and Subtractions, Fractions and Shape before the half term break before moving on to Fractions, Decimals and Percentages before the end of the year. Children will recap on prior learning through targeted arithmetic challenges incorporated into every lesson. The children will be taught formal written methods but they will also be challenged to use their knowledge of number to calculate problems using efficient strategies and mental methods. Practical resources are utilised in lessons to ensure that the children have a thorough understanding of each unit that is taught.
Branch One: Creation and Covenant
This half term we are looking at the second creation story from Genesis. We will discuss how belief in God as creator of the universe is compatible with Science and the theory of Evolution. We will learn how many scientists are Christians and they do not see any conflict between their faith and science.
Branch Two: Prophecy and Promise
In Geography this term, children will develop their geographical skills to locate countries in South America and learn about the Andean West Coast. Children will study human and physical geographical features of the region using maps and atlases. Children will learn about Machu Picchu and make similarities between the countries in South America and the UK.
This half term we are studying the Ancient Mayan Ancient Civilisation. We are asking the question “How does the Ancient Mayan Civilisation compare with England in the 8th and 10th Century?”
We will answer this question by looking at different aspects of everyday life and thinking about how historians find out their information.
Module 1: Created and Loved by God
Created and Loved by God explores the individual. Rooted in the teaching that we are made in the image and likeness of God, it helps children to develop an understanding of the importance of valuing themselves as the basis for personal relationships.
Module 2: Created to Love Others
Created to Love Others explores the individual’s relationship with others. Building on the understanding that we have been created out of love and for love, this module explores how we take this calling into our family, friendships and relationships, and teaches strategies for developing healthy relationships and keeping safe both online and in our daily lives.
In Years 5 and 6, the children have two hours of Physical Education a week. In the first half term, children will be learning skills linked to Hockey in their outdoor session and they will be developing their gymnastic skills in their indoor sessions.
In the second half term, children will be focusing on teamwork and problem solving in their Orienteering unit and they will be sequencing creating dance routines based on the theme of ‘Food Glorious Food’.
Throughout the term, all three year 5/6 classes are fortunate to have PNE Community Education Trust delivering a half-term of sessions in either Dance or Gymnastics.
During our Science lessons in the first half-term, children will be learning about evolution and inheritance. Children will be developing their scientific enquiry skills to recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago. They will also recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents and identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.
In the second half-term, children will be investigating animals, including humans, describing the changes as humans develop to old age Children will develop a timeline to indicate stages in the growth and development of humans and learn about the changes experienced in puberty. Children will work scientifically by researching the gestation periods of other animals and comparing them with humans; by finding out and recording the length and mass of a baby as it grows. Children will then learn to identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood; recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function and describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans.
In the second half-term, children will be creating digital media art using digital technology. Children will be presenting recorded visual images using software and using graphics packages to create and manipulate new images. They will learn to import images into a graphics package and understand that a digital images are created by layering. Children will then create layered images of their own using their own ideas.
This term, children will be learning about data and information. They will look at how a flat-file database can be used to organise data in records. Children will use tools within a database to order and answer questions about data. They will create graphs and charts from their data to help solve problems and use a real-life database to answer a question, and present their work to others. Children will then progress to creating spreadsheets using software and manipulating their data to present information in a variety of ways.
Useful links
Letter-join 
Mathletics 
Times Tables Rock Stars 
Code Spark
Oxford Owl 
Espresso 
Topmarks 
BBC Bitesize
Internet-Matters-Guide-Online-safety-for-parents-of-children-6-10-years-old
ICT Games