Fox Class
Welcome to Fox Class!
We are the fabulous Year 5 & 6. We look forward to an exciting year of learning, being independent learners and preparing ourselves for secondary school.
Our teacher is Mrs Wilson. Our teaching assistant is Mrs Ray and Mrs Richards teaches Art on Tuesday.
Home Learning Information
YEAR 5
Year 5 have weekly maths facts set which will be highlighted on their Year 5 Home Learning maths sheet in their purple books. These are set on a Friday and tested the following Friday. Children should show that they have been practising these facts in their purple books.
Each week, year 5 and year 6 children will have spellings to practise. Their lists will be in their purple spellings and maths facts books. Please ensure your child practises in these books. They are tested on their spellings weekly.
Children should also be reading at least 5 times a week and recording what they have read in their reading record. Please challenge your children on some of the vocabulary they have read – this is an important part of their comprehension skills!
YEAR 6
In preparation for SATS, Year 6 are set weekly homework – either Maths or English. Their homework is set in the CGP books given to them. The homework is set on a Friday and is to be handed in the following Friday. By setting homework, we are also preparing them for the routine of homework when they get to secondary school!
Term 2 Learning
Here is our learning for Term 2. We have a busy term ahead!
In English this term, we will be learning the narrative poem ‘The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes and working towards writing our own narrative poem.
In Geography, we will be looking at what is meant by climate change, what is causing climate change and the impact it is having on our planet.
Our first music unit is based around the piece Shadows by Lindsey Stirling – an American violinist and dancer. We will then look English composer Ethel Smyth who used music to put across the message of the suffragettes when she wrote their March of the women anthem. In this unit, children will learn how to make their own protest song inspired by Ethel’s anthem and the suffragette movement.
In DT, we will be exploring different pop-up books and working towards producing our own pop-up books for children.
Term 2 Gallery
In English, we have used drama to act out the poem ‘The Highwayman’ so that we are familiar with the content of the narrative poem and the language used.
In DT, we have been exploring pop-up books and looking at the different mechanisms (V fold, box fold, double box fold) such that we can make our own pop up books.
For Remembrance, we went to the Church with Butterfly Class to explain the the importance of the act of Remembrance. We showed them the Commonwealth War Graves of those soldiers who gave their lives during World War I buried at the Church.
In Science, we have been looking at how animals adapt to their environment to survive. We discussed Charles Darwin’s theory about finches and how he theorised that finches adapted their beaks to the foods that were available on each of the Galapogos islands. We then carried out our own experiment to observe how different beaks were useful to pick up certain foods.
Term 1 Learning
Here is our learning for Term 1.
Whole Class Read: Holes by Louis Sachar
Author of term: The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargraves.
Artist of the term: Sonia Delaunay.
Year 5 Home Learning
Here is the maths home learning sheet for the term.
Here is our Curriculum Map for 2024-2025. We are following Map B.
Term 1 Gallery
In RE this term, we have been considering how art, music and architecture impacts worship in the Christian and Islamic faith. As part of this, we visited three places of worship – Emmanuel Church, the Quaker Meeting House and St Thomas’s Church. From this visit, we were able to see, learn and reflect on how certainly the art and music impacts worship.
In science this term, we have been learning about forces. We have carried out a number of investigations around gravity, friction, air and water resistance and simple mechanisms.
In PE, we are learning the skills of dribbling, passing and intercepting in hockey.
