CLASS DETAILS 2025/2026
Year 5/6
Class Teacher: Mr Huw McGrath (Monday – Thursday)
Mr G Hughes (Thursday PM & Friday)
Teaching Assistants: Mrs C Emerton Maka
PE days: Tuesday and Wednesday
Music: Mrs White (Thursdays)
6.10.26
Just wanted so say a huge thank you and well done to all 14 children who prepared their speeches for our school council today.
You all had some excellent ideas and have worked very hard to write your speeches, leaving the class with some outstanding options of who to vote for!
We’ll announce our School Council members tomorrow.
5.10.26
On Friday a group of 15 Jaguars went to the Corbet Secondary School to participate in a netball tournament. It was a really lovely morning and every single one of the children who attended were a delight to be with. They were well behaved, respectful, listened, worked as a team and made the morning enjoyable. I was very proud to be there with them representing Myddle Primary, Mrs Emerton-Maka
2.10.26
What’s coming up?
Next week we’ll finish our English unit on Romeo and Juliet and our Geography unit of time zones. We’ll then jump fully in to everything World War 2 as this will be the new topic of both our English and history lessons. There’s also our first school trip in the pipe line which I’ll hopefully be able to give you a date for next week.
In maths we’ll begin the week with three lessons on negative numbers before moving on to our next unit, addition and subtraction on Thursday.
In PE we will begin a series of lessons on tag rugby in preparation for our next School Games event which will be on 06/11/26.
1.10.26
Our week so far….
In maths we have continued our place value unit – our objectives this week have included: comparing and ordering numbers up to and beyond 1 million and rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000 and million.
In English, we have finished the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet! We have spent lots of time this week debating who was to blame for what happened. The children have written in role as ‘Nurse’ and the ‘Prince’s Trusted Advisors’. They have given advice to different characters and today have planned a balanced argument for their independent write, where their first drafts will be completed on Monday.
In PE, we have applied all of the learning from our netball unit into full games. A huge amount of progress has been made in terms of speed of play and quality of movement this week.
In geography we continued to learn about time zones, this week using real-life flights to find out, what will be time be when we land?
30.9.26
SCHOOL COUNCIL – NEXT TUESDAY 06.10.26
Next week we will be selecting our representatives for our School Council! Two children from every year group will be chosen to be part of the council and those who are selected will hold half-termly meetings with teaching staff where we will ensure their pupil voice is heard.
In Jaguar class, I would like anyone who is interested in being part of the council to write a short speech that they will read to the class explaining why they would be a good representative.
A good format to follow could be:
> Intro: Who you are and why you are standing for class councillor.
> What makes a good councillor? What qualities does a strong representative need?
> What would you do for the school/class? Do you have any ideas for how we could improve our school?
> Final message – can you use a memorable statement that sticks in your class mates heads?
After listening to the speeches, we will exercise one of our British Values – democracy. The class will vote for two year 5s and two year 6s to be our class representatives.
This year we will also be choosing two Head Pupils who will be the leaders of our School Council. Any children interested in this role should follow all instructions above.
25.9.26
Pupils enjoyed our recent Science lesson about ‘light’, understanding about refraction, reflection and spectrum of colours.
15.9.26
It’s been a busy couple of days in Jaguars!
In English we have been focussing on using adverbials of manner to add detail. We used these to describe a battle scene between the Montagues and Capulets.In maths we have been learning the place value of numbers up to 10 million. The children have been working really hard to gain a strong understanding of these!In geography we have been investigating time zones and why we have them.In PE, we have continued to focus on netball, with further practice of passing and footwork – we will begin to apply these skills in 3 v 3 activities tomorrow.
14.9.26
New spellings have been sent home in plastic wallets today. The ten new words and new rule are at the top and there’s a range of activities linked to them below. These can be returned at any time but please ensure they are in school every Monday for new spellings to go home. The new lists are also now on Spelling Shed.
Thank you!
11.9.26
Jaguar Homework – Spellings
All children know their group and have completed activities for their words for this week.Year 5 are working on Stage 5. Their spelling rule this week is words ending in -ous.Year 6 are working on Stage 6. Their spelling rule this week is the ‘i’ sound spelled ‘y’.These spellings are set on EdShed and are available to practice. From next week, a paper copy will also be sent home. Tests are every Monday and new words will be given on the same day. Spelling strategies will be taught regularly and children will be given tasks to apply these in school.Children who received spelling interventions last year, either on IDL or SNIP will continue to use IDL as a regular intervention, but will now also use Mastery Zone on EdShed. This gives them a personalised list of 10 spellings which only change when words have been ‘mastered’. Regular time to practice on Mastery Zone will be given in school. The target for these children will be to master 5-10 words per week. As the words can consistently change once mastered, there will be no formal spelling test for this group. Regular practice at home will significantly increase progress. I will monitor progress weekly by recording how many words each child has mastered.
MASTERY ZONE is also great for all children and can be used by all children. The list is completely personalised, so our stronger spellers will have some very difficult spellings to learn!
I am unable to set a certain amount of games to play on this app, but similar to times tables, 5-10 minutes practice per day at home will help make a huge difference.
Any questions, please ask. Thank you!
11.9.26
Jaguar Homework – Times Tables
I have set 5 minutes worth of Studio games to be completed on TTRS every day. Please try to make this a part of your daily routine. Children will be given a Dojo for completing their 5 games and we will give out 3 certificates every Monday in class (please see pictures).
Practising for 5 minutes a day can result in huge increases in times table knowledge and recall speed over a term. Please encourage your child to complete these as regularly as possible. Children will also get given time to practice in school when possible.
We will have a separate times table test (on paper) every Wednesday. We have completed our first set of these this week, where we used the children’s baseline results on TTRS to estimate which times table they would be on. Children who have completed Diamond Final (all times tables up to 12) are fluent and know all of their times tables – they will then use TTRS to improve their recall speed further.
Any questions, please ask & thank you for your support.
10.9.26
Playground Stars Applications Reminder
Just a reminder that applications need to be in by Monday – we will then start on Tuesday!
9.9.26
Jaguars were energised by their morning break and did some excellent maths work, learning numbers up to 100,000.
After a late break we had a short English lesson where we made a family tree for the Montague and Capulet families. Tomorrow we will be using compound adjectives to write short character descriptions.
This afternoon we had PE, where our our focus was on passing, movement and footwork in netball.
We ended the day with PSHE, discussing our year so far before starting an ‘All about Me’ poster.
8.9.26
YEAR 6 PLAYGROUND STARS (Young Leaders)
I’m delighted that we’re going to be delivering a new North Shropshire School Games Leadership Pathway to a new group of young leaders who are going to be known as ‘Playground Stars’ this year!
The North Shropshire Leadership Pathway provides schools with a simple, progressive and sustainable way of developing young leaders who can support participation, improve playtimes and strengthen pupil voice.
The pathway is built around three key themes:
Manage Self
Understand Others
Take Action
The North Shropshire Leadership pathway aims to:
Develop confidence, communication and leadership skills in young people.
Improve participation and physical activity opportunities within school.
Strengthen pupil voice and ownership.
Support pupils’ personal development.
Create a sustainable leadership culture within schools.
Provide a clear progression route from Primary into future leadership opportunities.
At first, this is open to our Y6 pupils. We are aiming for a small group who will begin their training next week under the guidance of myself and Mr Savage.
The PG Stars will receive a workbook that they will complete either during and after every session. They will need to bring this to school every Tuesday.
To apply to be a PG Star, the children will need to write a short letter. They should include:
> Why you would like to be a Playground Star.
> What makes a good leader?
> An example of someone you know who you think is a great leader. (It could be a sporting figure, family member, coach or anyone else who inspires them)
Please could all letters be handed in by Monday at the latest so that are PG Stars can be selected and we’ll be ready to go next Tuesday!
I will chat more to the children about this in school too. Depending on the number of applicants and success of the programme this half term, there could be some year 5 slots either now or at a later point in the year.
Thank you!
8.9.26
On Spelling Shed, the Mastery Zone is essentially the area where pupils practise a spelling list until they have demonstrated that they have mastered the words.
🐝 How it works
Pupils are given the words from their assigned spelling list.
They practise spelling the words through the different activities.
The system tracks how well they are spelling each word.
Words that are being spelled correctly consistently become mastered.
The aim is for pupils to work through the list until they reach Mastery across the required words.
🎯 What it means for a teacher
The Mastery Zone is useful because it gives you an indication of which individual spellings a child has secured, rather than simply showing how many times they have played a game.
7.9.26
SPELLINGS
All children will receive their spellings tomorrow and will be learning words from stage 4, 5 or 6 of the EdShed spelling scheme.
For most children, a y5 will be assigned to stage 5, a y6 will be assigned to stage 6.
Where appropriate, some children will be assigned to stage 4.
Spelling tests will take place every Monday and will start next Monday 14th Sept.
MASTERY ZONE – We are going to promote the use of mastery zone for all children this year, it will also be used a ms a daily intervention in school for our weaker spellers which will be used alongside IDL. Mastery Zone can be found in your EdShed home page. I will follow up with another post about this, which admittedly is from AI, but it explains it much clearer than I can!
8.9.26
English – today we wrote police reports using the passive voice!
We learnt how to identify ‘active’ or ‘passive’ voice by examining the subject, verb and object in sentences.
We found that:
The structure of an active sentence is subject>verb>object.
The structure of a passive sentence is object>subject>verb and there are also some key words to include (was/were and by)
Can you repeat your task from this afternoon and explain to an adult the subject, verb and object? Can you change them into the passive voice?
Maths – we began our place value unit today, learning Roman numerals up to and beyond 1000. Roman numerals are a great way to teach place value and partitioning. I have set a quiz on EdShed if you’d like to have some more practice at home! Having the picture attached open may be a useful visual aid!
Tomorrow we will be learning that place value of numbers up to 100,000.
7.9.26
It’s been a busy day today, fully getting in to the swing of things!
We started the day by completing some baseline assessments for spellings and times tables. This will help us sort groups and set targets for this term.
In English we began our writing unit on Romeo and Juliet. We made word banks of modal verbs and subordinating conjunctions before going out to investigate the crime scene (pictures) and then used all of our ideas to write a short report containing key findings, theories of what happened and any key questions.
This afternoon we had some quiet reading time (thank you for keeping reading books and records in bags!).
Following that we on to Spanish, focussing on the key sounds of: rr, ll, ñ, ch and j.
To end the day we began our geography unit on time zones. We learnt about his day and night happens before using atlases to investigate which countries lie on the Prime Meridian.
Lots of great work done today – well done Jaguars!
3.9.26
Key info:
Monday – Spelling tests (Baseline tests on 07.09.26)
Tuesday & Wednesday – PE
Wednesdays – Times table test (Baseline tests on 09.09.26)
Thursday – Music – if you have your own ukulele you are welcome to bring it in!
I have really only covered the first few weeks on this overview, to avoid bombarding you all with too much information.
Other useful info:
> We will be moving onto our World War 2 topic around mid October. This will become the focus of our English, guided reading and history lessons. Our first school trip of the year will also be linked to this (Date TBC)
> There will be a parents evening this term. The children will do doing some baseline assessments before this to ensure we have clear targets to discuss at parents evening.
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions or queries. I will aim to back to you within 24 hours between Monday and Thursday or on my next working day for any messages sent between Thursday evening and Sunday.
There will be some more posts sent home linked to what you could be doing at home to support your child’s learning this year over the next week which include information on: Homework and apps & websites we will be using at home and in school.
I’ve had a fantastic first couple of days and am sure we’re going to have a great year in Jaguar Class!
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.
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 class worship presenters. 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, maths and sentence based homework is given to the children on a Friday 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 records back to school on a daily basis 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. This year, we shall be starting a new reading chart in class and each half term, there shall be a competition to see which children are reading aloud the most at home.
LATEST NEWS
The children have been developing their art skills as part of their topic of ‘The Seaside’.
As part of their understanding of their locality of Myddle, the pupils walked to the remains of Myddle Castle, where they were kindly met by Mrs Savage who explained to the pupils all about it’s history. We then interviewed Mrs Savage back in the classroom about different aspects of Myddle so that we could learn more about the area that they live / go to school.
ARTHOG 2025-2026
For all of the other Arthog photographs, please see the school Facebook page.
ENGLISH
This half term, the children shall be reading a class book called ‘The Good Thieves’ by Katherine Rundell. Our writing focus shall be originally based on the poem ‘The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes. We are linking this narrative poem with our local history topic of Myddle, where we shall be learning about the notorious highwayman of Myddle, Humphrey Kynaston.
Jaguar class timetable Summer Term 1 2025-2026
Y6 Yearly planner
Y6 pupil roles and responsilbilities:
Sports leaders:
Matilda Massy, Oliver Castro Martin, Elvin Jones, Charlie Collison, Rhys Evans, Felix Monk, Owen Flynn, William Pashley, Seb Milward and Arabella Barker
Y6 librarians
Indi Jutla, Ivy Sparks, Isla Jackson, Grace Price and Iyla Tucker
Y6 eco-council and school council:
Aria Wild and Elvin Jones
Y6 School Sports Games Leader
Matilda Massy and Owen Flynn
Y6 class worship
Harry Jai Lee, Alfie Wardle, Oliver Castro Martin, William Pashley, Indi Jutla, Aria Wild, Tommie Taylor and William Penney
Assembly laptop monitor:
Alfie Wardle, Felix Monk and William Pashley
Kind regards
Mr G Hughes
JAGUAR CLASS 2024-2025
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
