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The children will be consolidating and improving their throwing, catching, hitting and kicking skills through a variety of manipulative skill games. Indoor PE will be yoga and dodgeball.

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The focus this term is on Islam, with the children learning about the Five Pillars of Islam followed by Muslim life at home and in the community.

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This term the children will be learning about computing systems and networks and creating media (video production). We will reinforce the importance of online safety throughout the year.

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Year 6:

Numbers to 10,000,000 - reading, writing, comparing, ordering and rounding

Number operations - BODMAS, multiplying and dividing by 2-digit numbers, multiples, factors and prime numbers

Fractions - simplifying, comparing, ordering, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing by whole numbers

Decimals - reading, writing, writing fractions as decimals, multiplying and dividing

Measurements - length, mass, volume and time

Word problems related to the above

Year 5:

Numbers to 1,000,000 - reading, writing, comparing, ordering and rounding

Number operations - adding and subtracting within 1,000,000, multiples, factors, prime numbers, square numbers, cube numbers, multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000, multiplying and dividing by whole numbers

Graphs - reading tables and line graphs

Word problems related to the above

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We realise that children need to feel happy and confident in school to be successful.  Using Coram Life Education, we will be equipping them to make safe and informed decisions and helping them to develop a happy and healthy lifestyle. This term we will focus on 'Relationships' and 'Valuing Differences'.

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Reading:

In Y5/6, the expectation is that the children read every day for at least twenty minutes.  This should be recorded in their Reading Records as home reading and should, ideally, be initialled by an adult.  Reading Records will be checked once a week by the class teacher. Reading books will be chosen from the amazing new selection of books in our new library and will be matched to your child's reading range. Book quizzes will be used to check your child's understanding of the books they read.

Spelling:

The children will have weekly spellings which will be given to them on Mondays and tested on Fridays.  Spellings will be sent via Seesaw and will also be added to Doodle on a weekly basis.

Times Tables:
The National Curriculum expectation is that children should be able to recall and use multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 x 12 by the end of Year 4.  If your child does not, yet, have rapid recall of all these facts, times tables practice should be done at least five times per week. If they have already mastered the multiplication tables, they should use Doodle or TT Rockstars to ensure rapid recall is retained. Times tables will be tested weekly.

Doodle:

Children should be accessing the four areas of learning at least five times per week.  This will ensure that they consolidate the basic skills and stay in the green zones.  Look out for any assignments being set as these will be linked to current learning in school. Doodle/homework certificates will be awarded weekly as well as in celebration assemblies.

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We will be having lots of fun singing and playing musical instruments using the Charanga unit 'Melody and Harmony in Music'. YuStudio will be used to compose 'A Spooky Story'.

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The children will be studying the history, and geography, of World War II. The comparison theme running through all our history units is children's lives. Concepts will be: freedom, fear, forgiveness, adversity, segregation and democracy.

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Our books for this term are:

Star of Fear, Star of Hope
When We Were Warriors
The Lost Happy Endings
Hansel and Gretel

Our poetry unit is: 'The Blitz'.

We will continue to focus on the non-negotiables in writing alongside developing writing skills in line with National Curriculum expectations.

Every time the Y6 children write they should remember:

accurate punctuation (capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas in lists and after fronted adverbials, punctuation for parenthesis and accurate speech punctuation)

legible, fluent and joined handwriting, even at speed, ensuring that capital letters and lower case letters are of a consistent size

accurate spelling of the Y3/4 statutory words and spelling patterns

accurate spelling of some of the Y5/6 statutory words and spelling patterns

Every time the Y5 children write they should remember:

accurate punctuation (capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas in lists and after fronted adverbials)

legible, fluent and joined handwriting, ensuring that capital letters and lower case letters are of a consistent size

accurate spelling of the Y3/4 statutory words and spelling patterns

beginning to have accurate spelling of some of the Y5/6 statutory words and spelling patterns

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Working alongside Mrs Kemp, our new art teacher, the children will be looking at Henry Moore's wartime shelter sketchbook. They will also be researching the uniforms of the armed forces during World War II and will be using their findings, and sewing skills, to create peg dolls. The war artist Pat Keely will inspire World War II propaganda posters.

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This term's science topics are: Light and Electricity.

Through these topics, the children will be taught to use a range of practical scientific methods, processes and skills - these, alongside knowledge quizzes, will form the basis for assessment in science.

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The children will be revising numbers, days of the week and months of the year so that they are able to say, and write, the date in French.  The unit for the second half of term is: Je me presente.