2025 - 2026

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In Literacy, we are focusing on a short film entitled, ‘Little Freak’. This clip allows us to explore identity and the impact of bullying and discrimination. We will explore figurative and emotive language when writing about the thoughts and feelings of the characters and explore how actions of individuals can negatively impact others. The topic will also allow us to work on informal letter writing. 

In maths, we will be focusing on place value and deepening our understanding of this. Next, we'll be moving onto revising written methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. By the end of the half term, children will have a secure understanding of key skills that underpin the maths curriculum. 

Our geography topic for the half term is ‘Why does population change?’. This will allow us to delve into the different social and environmental factors that can affect population growth and decline in many different countries. We will conclude our learning with a fieldwork study in our local area. 

Our science unit this half term is 'Classifiying Living Things'. We will learn about Carl Linneaus and the system he developed to classify animals, plants, and microbes.

This half term, we will also have the amazing opportunity to work with HEN (Hippodrome Education Network) to help children build their confidence and work on their performance skills. As part of the project, we will be focusing on the idea of 'identity' as a clear link to our literacy curriculum. 

SATs :)

This half-term we have focused on revising the Year 5 and 6 curriculum in Maths, SPaG and Reading to prepare for SATs Week.

Our History topic for the half term is ‘What was the impact of WW2 on the people of Britain?’ We will:

• Identify the causes of World War 2.
• Identify the different phases in the Battle of Britain.
• Make deductions about the Blitz from photographs.
• Describe how children may have felt when evacuated.
• Evaluate the accuracy, reliability and usefulness of sources.
• Describe the impact WW2 had on women’s and African-Caribbean migrant lives.

In Literacy, we are looking at wartime narratives. We will be exploring ways to create emotion driven narratives using the novel Goodnight Mister Tom as stimulus. We will also put our prior scientific learning to use by writing an explanation text about the circulatory system.

In Maths, we will be looking at Area, Perimeter and Volume, Statistics, and Geometry. 

Our Science unit for the term will be Living Things: Evolution and Inheritence. We will explore research from Charles Darwin around the ideas of variation, adapation, and evolution. 

Our Geography topic for the half term is ‘Where does our energy come from?’ We will explore different renewable and non-renewable energy sources and the impact of these on our climate. We will also be developing our fieldwork and map skills.

In Literacy, we are looking at Twisted Fairy Tales. We will be rewriting an ending to a short film based on a fairy tale by the Brothers' Grimm, and also looking at creating a non-chronological report about Fairy Tales and their history.

In Maths, we will be looking at Algebra, and reconcolidating our knowlege of Fractions, Decimals and Percentages.

Our Science unit for the term will be Light and Reflection. We will have the opportunity to investigate how light travels, reflects off different surfaces and make our own periscope.

Our History topic for the half term was ‘What can the census tell us about our local area?’. This allowed us to explore the history of the census and what it can tell us about life in the past. including jobs, education and social change.

In Literacy, we had a focus on digital literacy and studied the motion picture 'Hidden Figures'. We learnt about the history of NASA and how social change was pioneered by the African-American human computers Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson. We wrote a op-ed about why it is important to learn about figures like these.

In Maths, we have been learning about fractions and the four operations. We also covered imperial and metric units of measure, and ratio and proportion.

Our Science unit was Health and Exercise. We learnt about the circulatory system and the effect of exercise and fitness on heart rate. We conducted an investigation and drew up our results.

Our Geography topic for the half term was ‘Why does population change?’. This allowed us to delve into the different social and environmental factors that can affect population growth and decline in many different countries. We concluded our learning with a fieldwork study in our local area. 

In Literacy, we looked at a short film entitled, ‘Little Freak’. This clip allowed us to consider how identity matters. We explored figurative and emotive language when writing about the feelings of the characters. 

In Maths, we started the year with a focus on place value and deepened our understanding of this. We moved onto revising written methods for addition and subtraction. 

Our Science unit this half term was Classifiying Living Things. We learned about Carl Linneaus and used the system he developed to classify animals, plants, and microbes.