Welcome to Year 5/6
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome back to school and to life with, hopefully, more normality to it. We have been absolutely delighted with the way in which your children have settled into the new routines of the Year 5/6 classes.
Our project question for this term is ‘How Did Settlements Stem from The Stone Age?’ during which we will be exploring the prehistoric era. If any of you have a particular interest or specialism in this area, which you would like to share with us, please do get in touch because we would love to capture your enthusiasm and knowledge to inspire the children even more.
Taking into consideration that many children have had 18 months of disrupted education, our teaching and learning will ensure that their emotional well-being is at the fore and we will be quick to identify next steps in learning so that all children work towards being in line with age related national expectations.
Each week, we will be setting the following homework.
Spellings and Reading Comprehension – a week to complete
- Use spellingframe.co.uk to practice weekly the spelling pattern
- Use readtheory.org to complete at least 20 mins of reading tasks
Maths
- Use hegartymaths.com
Reading
- We would expect children to read out loud to someone at least 3 times a week. Please sign your child’s home school diary if they read out loud to you or quietly to themselves
We are able to monitor the amount of work that the children complete on these homework platforms and enjoy celebrating successes in learning, so please do encourage your child to complete these independently and on time.
It is an exciting couple of years being in Year 5/6. For many of your children, it will be their last year at primary school.
Our Year 6 pupils have the opportunity to be prefects and fulfil the role by being role models for the younger children; they will look forward to the end of year residential camp and KS2 production as well as working hard towards their SATS in May. We want them to be happy and successful learners and know that working alongside you at home, they will have the best opportunity to achieve this.
We have recorded a ‘Welcome to….’ video for each class, which is available to view through our YouTube channel. Please click on the link below
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCobLS1Aua5KMBYUjefcFPDg
If you have questions for the team, please contact us on the year group email address [email protected]
Thank you for your continued support,
Year 5/6 team
