Year 5/6 Stargazer Class
Welcome to Stargazer Class!
Meet the team:
Class teacher: Mr Prosser
Class teaching assistant: Mrs Dulson (from January)
Stargazer class
Welcome to Stargazer class! Here you will find our newsletters, photos of our topic work and any important information about our class. Please pop back here (as well as having a look at our class photos tab) to see what we have been getting up throughout this year.
This term:
During this term (Autumn 2), Year 5 and 6 will be covering lots of different areas of the curriculum. Our learning will all be based around our new topic "Up up and away".
Maths
In maths this term our main focus is addition and subtraction and multiplication and division. One day a week, the lesson focus will be on reasoning questions and mental arithmetic (10 in 10s). Pupils will be required to apply and show the formal methods of these operations.
English
In English, we will be recapping and practising previous skills, such as: compound sentences, ISPACE sentence starters, subordinating conjunctions and paragraphing. We will explore these skills through a range of different text types, working towards writing our own biographies and looking at setting descriptions to build suspense and tension.
Important Class Information:
PE Days: Tuesdays and Fridays. Children need to come to school wearing their PE kit.
Reading Books: reading books will be changed on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Homework: A new homework grid for Term 2 will be attached below. Comprehension texts will continue to be set for the children to complete regularly on Rockerbox at home. New class logins will be sent home soon.
Reading: Please continue to listen to your child read daily, even for 10 minutes, and encourage them to complete the reading task in the reading journal. Books should be changed regularly.
Maths Passport: Regular practise of Maths Passport targets helps pupils to retain knowledge and helps them to utilise these facts in other mathematical learning.
Times Tables: It is important all pupils are learning (and continue to practice) the timetables up to the 12 times table. These should be known by the end of year 4 but it is essential that the children continue to practice and recall these facts.
Useful websites for times table practise:
Thank you for your continued support. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any queries.
Key Dates:
Monday 4th November – School starts again
Monday 11th November- remembrance day
W/C 18th November - Class heats for the oracy competition
Friday 29th November - FOBS Christmas Fair (please send in clean 1lbs jam jars with screw lids to KS1 class teachers by Wednesday 20th November)
Friday 6th December-panto
Wednesday 11th December-Christmas dinner
Friday 13th December- Wunderstruck performance at the Cotswold school
Monday 16th December - Nativity Dress Rehearsal at 2pm in St. Lawrence's Church (KS1)
Tuesday 17th December - Nativity Performance at 2pm in St. Lawrence's Church (please do not arrive earlier than 1.45pm) (KS1)
Wednesday 18th December-Church performance (KS2)
Friday 20th December - Break up at 2pm