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Year 5/6 Spring term 1 2025

Welcome back to school! We are really excited to see you all and get started with our learning. This half-term, we have a geography-based topic: the Frozen Poles.

The Frozen Poles

What is life like in the Frozen Poles?

We will be learning all about the Arctic and the Antarctic through our geography, English and art & design lessons. 

Please see the downloads section to download our topic mind map and the knowledge organiser for this term. 

English: This term, we will be writing a recount about Ernest Shackleton's journey to Antarctica, informed by our class text 'Shackleton's Journey' by William Grill. We will also explore writing fact files about polar explorers in our topic lessons.

Guided Reading: This term, we will be reading the book, 'Odd and the Frost Giants' by Neil Gaiman. We will use this text to build our prediction and vocabulary understanding and our retrieval and inference skills.

Maths: We will be continuing our learning about fractions, where we will explore comparing fractions, converting mixed numbers and improper fractions and adding/subtracting fractions. We will then revisit our multiplication and division learning.

Science: In Science, we will be learning about 'Animals including Humans'. We will be exploring the circulatory system, the function of the heart, blood and blood vessels and the impact of diet and exercise on our bodies.

Year 5/6 Staff:

We are very lucky to have the following staff to support and help the children in their learning:

Mrs Fields: Class Teacher. 

Mrs K and Miss Ollerton: We have a fantastic team of Teaching Assistants to support the children in their learning.

Mr Curtin: The children are very lucky to have Mr Curtin teaching them music every week. This will take place on Wednesday mornings.

Information:.

P.E Sessions:

During the Spring 1 term, children will need to wear P.E. kits on Mondays and Tuesdays for PE. 

Music:

We will be having our weekly brass lessons on a Wednesday morning with Mr Curtin. 

Homework Explained!

Weekly Spellings:

Your child will receive their spelling homework on a Friday. Please can all children practise their weekly spellings, in time for their spelling test the following Thursday. 

Maths Homework:

The children in Y5/6 class are expected to be regularly logging onto My Maths and completing the weekly activities online. 

Reading:

Your child has a school reading book and an individual reading journal. Please can we encourage as much reading at home as possible and a comment written from you when you can. Thank you. 

Timestables:

Your child will be given a login for Times Tables Rock stars, an exciting online tool to help them to learn times tables. Your child will have a weekly times tables test on a Thursday and we thank you in advance for your support in helping them to prepare for this. 

Dojo homework:

This can be found on the homework tab at the top of this page and on ClassDojo. While this is not compulsary, it's a great way to learn more about our topic and earn Dojo Points to convert in our shop at the end of term.