Welcome to our Rhino Class page, on which you will find information about this academic year. Please also check Seesaw regularly for important updates and announcements.
Summer Term 2024:
This term our main topic will be the English Civil War. We will be learning about differences in beliefs between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians. We will examine what led to the civil war, and the long term consequences for the future of parliament and democracy in our country.
In English, we will begin by reading Holes by Louis Sachar. We will examine themes such as stereotyping, fairness, respect, honesty and hard-work. We will continue to prepare for our upcoming SATs reading and GPS papers. In writing, we will be writing a variety of text types in order to demonstrate our abilities to write a range of genres for a range of audiences.
In maths, we will be learning about shape and statistics, before revisiting our earlier units on place value, fractions, decimals, percentages and calculation. All of this will help to consolidate our knowledge ahead of our upcoming SATs.
In the foundation subjects, we will enjoy learning to play rounders and tag rugby in PE, and our enthusiastic music teacher (Gareth) will be in school, teaching our lucky pupils to play the djembe!
Spring Term 2024:
This term our main topic will be WWII. We will be looking at what caused the war, significant events during the war and what life was like for those affected by the war. It is a fascinating topic and I am sure you will really enjoy it! Our class text will be Letters from the Lighthouse (written by Emma Carroll). It has inspired some outstanding writing in the past; I am really looking forward to seeing what you can all come up with this year!
In maths we will be covering aspects such as ratio and percentages which will build on our previous units of fractions and four operations. Of course, we will be working hard to prepare for our upcoming SATs in reading, maths and GPS (Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling) too.
We will have lots to discover and plenty of variety in the foundation subjects too.
Autumn Term 2023:
I hope that you all are looking forward to the year ahead and being ‘top of the school’… and yes – that means you will be sitting on the benches in assembly!
We have some enthralling topics to learn about this year. In the first term, we will be using Harry Potter as inspiration for our writing; we will be reading the text and watching the film in order to immerse ourselves.
In maths, we will begin by recapping Y5 arithmetic content, followed by place value which involves becoming confident with numbers up to 10,000,000.
Mrs Barnes will be teaching science as usual.
