YEAR

5&6

TEACHER

Mrs Frost

This is our Year 5/6 class for 10-11 year olds – Oak Class are brilliant! At the end of Year 6, children take their national SATs in May each year and we are always proud of how hard the children work – we believe that trying their absolute best is all that we can ask and we celebrate progress in every child.  In Oak Class we believe that enriching the children’s learning with as much topic work as possible allows our pupils to enjoy their school experience without constant pressure of tests – when the children are expected to take their tests, the majority of children cheer, ‘Yay!’

The Summer term is starting already, this year is whizzing past! So many exciting things coming up in the Summer Term and it’s an important term too – especially for our Year 6’s! Aside from SATs prep and SATs – here is what else we will be doing! 😊

Science – Climate Change and Sustainability.

Humanities – We will be starting our new topic on the Maya Civilisation as well as delving into the geography of the area and studying volcanoes!

Computing – Web Creation (Year 6’s swimming). 😊

R.E. – Do beliefs in Karma, Samsara and Moksha help Santanis lead good lives?

Art – For art we will be inspired by the work from our topic on Ancient Maya and Mexican artists.

P.S.H.E. – Building positive, healthy relationships.

PE will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays with Swimming for the Year 6’s on Mondays

Spellings – Please see below the list of spellings for this half term.  We will also be continuing with our work on the high frequency words with most children 😊.

Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning

programme

telegram

hologram

diagram

grammar

grammatical

parallelogram

monogram

programmer

program

Words that can be nouns and verbs

challenge

protest

broadcast

benefit

charge

function

influence

interest

object

damage

Words that can be nouns and verbs

produce

present

reason

silence

support

transport

surprise

scratch

freeze

balance

 

Words with a long /o/ sound spelt ‘ou’ or ‘ow’

shoulder

smoulder

mould

poultry

soul

shallow

window

blown

known

thrown

 

Words ending in -ible

possible

horrible

terrible

visible

incredible

sensible

forcible

legible

responsible

reversible

 

Words ending in -ibly

possibly

horribly

terribly

visibly

incredibly

sensibly

forcibly

legibly

responsibly

reversibly

* Additional weeks will be revision and consolidation.