CLASS DETAILS
Class Teacher: Mr G Hughes
Teaching Assistants: Mrs G Harris (Monday to Thursday) Mrs C Emerton Maka (Friday)
PE / Sports Coach: Mr Neil Prescott (Wednesdays)
Music teacher: Mrs White (Thursdays)
LINKS THAT WILL SUPPORT YOUR CHILD’S LEARNING:
*Please encourage your child to practise their times tables regularly at home using some of the above online learning support.
Welcome to Y5&6
We are called the ‘Jaguar’ class. As the oldest class in the school, the pupils require the need to have a strong responsibility to demonstrate a fantastic work and behaviour ethic to set a good example for the younger pupils at the school. For the Year 6s, as this year is their final year at primary school, all of their learning in the classroom shall be building towards their end of KS2 SATs assessments, which take place in the Summer term. The Year 5s have the amazing opportunity to observe the experiences and learning that the Y6s have in preparation for when they are in Year 6 next year.
As part of being in Jaguar class, the Y6 children have many roles to play around the school including sports leaders, delivering celebration assemblies, library monitors and school / eco councillors. This helps the children to show leadership skills, being more responsible and independent, and to give them further confidence at speaking in front of others. This will help to prepare the children for when they move onto secondary school in Year 7.
A reading and maths homework is given to the children on a Friday (reading / SPaG / maths) and is expected to be returned by the following Wednesday. It is vital that pupils complete these (with increasing independence) as it helps them to practise their comprehension skills and consolidate their maths understanding from what they’ve been learning in the classroom. Pupils are encouraged to read at home regularly and to bring their reading passports back to school on a Thursday so that we can see how hard the children have been working at home on their reading. This will allow us to celebrate their achievements with the rest of the school on a Friday in our celebration assembly.
PE shall be taught on a Wednesday morning (sports coach Neil Prescott) and on a Thursday afternoon. Therefore, children can wear their PE kits to school on these days.
Music lessons shall be taught by Mrs White on a Thursday morning, whilst Mrs Harris shall be teaching the class their RE on a Wednesday morning during this half term.
LATEST NEWS
The Y6 residential trip to Arthog is approaching fast, however we have now booked Arthog again for next year’s Year 6s (current Y5s). Unlike previous years, this shall be taking place in the first week in October 2025. For further details, contact Mrs Fox in the office.
https://www.arthog.co.uk/site/index.php
ENGLISH
This half term, the book that the children are basing their writing lessons on is ‘The Man Who Walked Between The Twin Towers’ by Mordicai Gerstein, which is the based on the incredible true events of Phillipe Petit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf2U4xKMSS0
SCIENCE
Today, the children have been investigating which materials are electrical conductors. Having created working electrical circuits, they added different materials into the circuit to identify if that had an effect on the flow of the electrical current.
PSHE
It has been fantastic having many parents giving up their time in helping to deliver careers advice to the children in Y5&6 during the Spring Term. Thank you to everybody who has done so!
World Book day
STEM Day Y5&6 girls
Y6 pupil roles and responsilbilities:
Sports leaders:
Monday: Mia Haigh and Eve Jones
Tuesday: Olivia Collison and Ewan Sparks
Wednesday: Archie Tucker and Ruby Piper
Thursday: Freddie Conde and William Donoghue
Friday: Bertie Hewitt
Y6 librarians: Eve Jones and Ruby Piper
Y6 eco-council and school council: Rose Harris
Y6 School Sports Games Leader: William Donoghue and Archie Tucker
Y6 class worship: Bertie Hewitt, Blake Savage and Charlotte Downes
Assembly laptop monitor: Caspar Monk
Kind regards
Mr G Hughes