Upper Key Stage 2 (Years 5 and 6)

Teaching Team in Year 5 and 6

Juniper: Miss Jagger (Class Teacher)

Sycamore: Miss Smith (Class Teacher)

Hazel: Miss Caley and Miss Svensson (Class Teachers)

Supported by Mrs Nichols, Mrs Nicholas and Mrs Steele

Home Learning

Spellings will be handed out each Monday followed by a quiz on Friday.

All children have access to TTRockstars (an online Maths App). Children should try to complete this every day.

Reading books are being sent home and need to be brought into school everyday. Children should be reading every day, recording them in their reading records.

Homework will be assigned on a Thursday, due in the following Thursday. This will be posted onto Google Classroom for your child to access and complete. The classroom code is: gsoj6ft

GOOGLE CLASSROOM

PE

PE days are different for each class. Please see below for specific classes:

Hazel - Monday

Juniper - Tuesday

Sycamore - Wednesday

Children need to come in to school wearing their kit. Please refer to the Uniform Policy for the correct clothing. Please make sure they have suitable clothes for the weather as the majority of PE will take place outside.

What we are learning each week:

UKS2 timetable

What learning looks like in years 5 and 6:

Reading:

Reading is promoted and modelled to all our children throughout their time at school. Children will have a daily reading lesson where they will learn how to read fluently as well as make inference, predictions and retrieve key words or phrases to answer comprehension questions. As children encounter new vocabulary we will explore the definitions of these words within the context of the book and the effect this has on the meaning. Alongside daily reading lessons, we have a story after lunch every day to continue fostering a love of reading.

English:

In English we will be using a range of books linked to the topic to inspire our writing. Each half term, we will focus on one fiction, one non-fiction and one poetry unit. At the end of each unit, the children will produce a piece of writing to go into their best writing file.

Maths:

We use the Power Maths scheme which follows a mastery approach to Maths. All children have access to a range of manipulatives to promote their concrete understanding of abstract concepts. Alongside this we promote fluency within the 4 operations through an additional arithmetic lesson each week.

Topic:

We have a thematic approach to our learning and link our topic to the other subjects where possible.

UKS2 Autumn 1 newsletter