Term 1, Week 2 - 12/09/25

Our first full week; it has been a busy one. We have gotten to know each other better and making positive learning choices in class.

Lots of our Year 6 sat their Kent Test on Thursday. Good luck, you were amazing. Year 5 will have the opportunity when they are in Year 6. There will be more information about this in June next year.

English

This week, we have written a cold write story as part of our fiction text. We planned a story about an adventure that involved a boat journey, then wrote the story over 2 days. We then edited our story by looking for spelling errors, punctuation and any other ways to improve it. This writing will inform me about the children's strengths and weaknesses when writing fiction stories independently.

Maths

Year 5 and 6 have continued to explore place value, looking at the value of digits, comparing and ordering numbers, reading and writing numbers in words and numerals. Year 5 focus on numbers up to 1,000,000 whilst Year 6 look at numbers up to 10,000,000.

Science

This term, for Science, we are learning about Living Things and their Habitats. We learnt about the reproduction of plants this week and had the opportunity to dissect a flower so we could see the stamen, filament, carpel and other reproductive parts of a plant.

DT

We are learning about ingredients and exploring how they are produced. We have discussed which foods are grown, caught, reared or processed. We chose an island to explore the traditional food from there and created menus for that island.

PSHE

In PSHE we explored how to make and maintain positive relationships with a focus on friendships.

Spanish

We are looking at Greetings this term and introducing ourselves.

Golden Book

Every week, 2 children are chosen for this outstanding behaviour and learning record and this is celebrated in our whole school assembly on Monday mornings. This term we are focusing on our value of Respect. 

Reminders

Stud earrings to be worn only to school and should be removed for PE.

PE is Wednesday and Friday.

Home learning is practicing spellings on EdShed, times tables on TTRockstars and Year 6 have some learning on MyMaths. The children now have their logins.

Please read with your children and sign their reading records.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mr Bowles and Miss Harris