St Nicholas' Class

Learning and Serving together in the light of God's love

Welcome to Year 5/6 Class Page!

Class Teacher: Mrs Bainbridge

SEN Support: Mrs Moore

PPA Cover: Mrs Batters

We are working hard to become a paperless school so please check regularly for updates.

Useful Information:

Homework - Every Friday to be completed by the following Friday.

Spellings - Booklets given out on a Monday and tested the following Monday

https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/

PE - Wednesday and Thursday

Children can practise their times tables on TT rockstars:

https://ttrockstars.com/

Collins E-books are provided for each child and are accessible through the following link:

https://ops.collinsopenpage.com/sso/login?service=https%3A//ebooks.collinsopenpage.com/wr/index.html&eulogin=true

Please listen to your child read regularly and sign their reading diaries. Evidence suggests that reading for pleasure leads to increased attainment (Clark and DeZoya 2011).

Children can prepare for SATS on:

https://satscompanion.com/

Curriculum Spring 2

English

We are learning to use the Passive voice and writing a biography of Charles Darwin.

Maths

Our maths focus this half term is Percentages, decimals and fractions

Science

This half term we are learning all about Evolution in Science. We have learnt how animals and plants adapt to their environment. We conducted an experiment based on Darwin's finches!

In RE we are learning about Jesus being truly God and truly Human.

In PE we are focusing on invasion games.

In DT we are programming a BBC Micro:bit to act as an animal thermometer.

Computing

In computing we are learning to video and edit video.

Geography

We are learning about biomes.

PSHCE

We are thinking about ways to keep ourselves healthy, both in mind and body and why this is important to help us develop and be happy

Previous Learning:

In December we created Instruction texts using colons on how to steal Christmas!