Year 5/6 (Fire Class)
Welcome to Fire Class!
2024 - 2025
Welcome to a new school year!
We hope you all had a brilliant summer holiday. Welcome to a new term.
During this half term, we will be covering…
Fiction (The Caravan), with a warning genre and a focus on the setting, and non-fiction (The Parent Pleaser), with the purpose to explain and the form of a promotional advert in English.
- Place value and addition and subtraction (Y5) and place value and the four operations (Y6) in Maths
- Material: Properties and changes in Science.
What was the impact of World War 2 on the people of Britain? in History.
Families and relationships in learning for life (PSHE).
What do Christians believe about the death of Jesus? in RE.
Leavers' songs in Music.
Inventing a product in Computing
Key Information
PE will be on Mondays and Thursdays.
Weekly spelling tests will be on Tuesday.
Homework/Home Learning
Reading records need to be handed in on a Monday and will be returned on Tuesday.
Homework includes:
Daily reading
Daily spelling practise
TT Rockstars
English and Maths homework
Maths homework will be handed out on a Wednesday and will need to be in by Monday morning (so this can be looked at in class).
English homework will be handed out on a Friday and will need to be in by Thursday morning (so we can go through this in class).
If your child has lost their homework, or is not in school on the day it is handed out, a copy of the homework will be available on this class page (under Maths or English homework).
Other
- Our Smokey Row day is Friday. In KS2, we only visit every other week (weather dependent).
If you need to get in contact with us, please use our class email address: fire@gkglt.co.uk You can expect a response within 2 working days.
If there is anything that needs our immediate attention, please contact the office as the message will get to us quicker than an email to the class!
Best wishes,
Miss Lunnon and Mrs Turney