Oak
Miss Down, Mrs Button and Mrs Attree welcome you to take a look at all the wonderful learning happening in Oak Class! We are excited to end the year with an exciting and eventful Term 6!
Important information:
Forest School takes place every Monday, so the children will need clothes in school that can get dirty. This includes wellies for when we have particularly wet days! A reminder that children need to be wearing long sleeved items of clothing and trousers for Forest School. PE happens every Friday, so we ask that the children come into school on Friday mornings in their full PE kits.
Maths:
This term in Maths, Year 6 will be spending a lot of our time conducting investigations involving real-life problems. They will be looking at money, time and measurements and even baking their own cakes. Part of Year 6's responsibilities this year is to organise an enterprise or a business for the summer fayre. This will involve creating shift patterns, budgeting and calculating profit.
Year 5 will be looking at money and measurement. We will also be working on telling the time and solving time-related problems. Later in the term, we will be revisiting and consolidating past learning to ensure they are ready to tackle bigger numbers and trickier calculations in Year 6.
English:
For Writing this term, we will be writing for a variety of audiences and exploring different genres such as: a diary entry, a narrative, a balanced argument, a letter and a playscript. We will be using a variety of grammatical features within these pieces (including parenthesis, speech, commas for clauses and adverbials). Throughout the term, most of our writing will be linked to our WW2 history topic, which gives us lots of chance for emotive language and description.
Science:
For our Science learning this term, we will be be looking at Evolution and Inheritance. We will look at variation and categorising animals based on characteristics. Also, we will explore the work of Darwin and his contributions to Science.
History:
This term, we will be learning about the local census and what it can tell us about Brenzett and our local area. We will be linking this in with our WW1 and WW2 knowledge and seeing what the census can teach us during this period of history. Additionally, we will be exploring why women in history have previously refused to fill in the census.
RE:
Our Big Question this term in RE is: What can be done to reduce racism? Can Religion help?
This will be an excellent subject for debate and deep thinking. The children will be exploring the 'Golden Rule' among different religions and looking at what this means when standing up against discrimination and prejudice.
PSHE:
The topic for PSHE this term is all about emotional and physical changes. We will be discussing topics within SRE, such as healthy relationships, the changing body and the process of conception to birth. There will be a letter sent out to parents before we begin these lessons; feel free to approach Miss Down if you have any questions regarding this.
Home Learning:
Seesaw is the platform we are using to engage with parents but also conduct home learning. Homework will be set every Friday and checked the following Thursday. There will be two tests set via Spelling Frame every week and TTRS should be accessed every week at home, as well as at school.
As we are using technology more and more at home and in school, it is important to be taking an active role in helping our children stay safe online. If you need any support with this, please don't hesitate to talk to Miss Down. There is a useful website below to give you some tips:
Useful websites:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn - a website with information, quizzes and games for all subjects!
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=16 - an excellent website full of games and interactive resources that will help with mental Maths.
https://www.timestables.co.uk/ - a website to help with times table fluency - a real focus in our class at the moment!
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ - an informative website which can help with Topic and Science learning.