Eagles Class

Eagles Planning Letter: Autumn Term 5/6 2024/25 - Mountains - Mrs Lancaster

Mountains

Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome back to our final terms of the year. With so much to fit in – including the French trip for year 6, sports day, and of course the end of year school production – it is sure to be an exciting end to the year.  It is great to be rewarded with some excellent weather as we work towards the Year 6 SATs tests, for which the children are already being the best they can be.

With so much to look forward to, I’m sure we will have a great end to the school year together.

Ms Lancaster

English

In English, we will be working from the text, How to Save the World with a Chicken and an Egg by Emma Shevah in Term 5 and The Lost Whale by Hannah Gold in Term 6.

The children will be given lots of opportunities to write in different forms culminating in them planning, creating and editing their own persuasive letters, narratives and information texts. There will be a grammar focus each lesson allowing them to use different sentence types and punctuation and also to develop their vocabulary to excite the reader and extend their sentences. In addition to their writing lessons, the children will also have guided reading sessions to continue to enhance their fluency, vocabulary and comprehension skills.

it will help us to identify pupils who have not yet mastered their times tables, so that additional support can be provided moving forward.

Science

In Science we will be studying Earth and Space with the enquiry question of ‘How have ideas about the Solar System changed over time?’

Art & DT

We will be focusing on using painting and mixed media as part of an artist study and after half term we will be looking textiles and creating a product using different textile shapes.

French

In French we will be learning some key words and phrases to help children when visiting France.

Physical Education

In PE, children will be working with Wayne on their athletics skills. Year 5 will continue to have Forest School on a Friday. In term 6, Year 6 children will be taking part Forest School and they will also participate in Bikeability.

Maths

Over this term, we will be looking at concepts including measures, shape and space (including geometry and position and direction), and statistics, while also revising topics such as fractions and percentages.

We will also be continuing to develop our mathematical fluency with our daily early bird maths questions from 8.35.

Geography

Our main theme this term is mountains and we will be looking at the enquiry question ‘What makes a mountain, a mountain?’ focusing on mountain locations in Europe, north and south America. We will be finding out about the features of mountains, if all mountains are the same and why climbing Everest was such a big deal.

Religious Education

Our two questions for terms 5 and 6 are: Why do Hindus want to be good? Why do some people believe in God and some people not?

PSHE

Our two PSHE topics this term are ‘Relationships’ and ‘Changing Me (including SRE – Sex and Relationships Education)’.

Music

In music, children will be learning to play a recorder song together before moving on to practise our songs for the school play.

Computing

In computing, we will be learning about how AI is being used today. We will also be learning how to use search engines effectively.