Class Teacher: Mrs Hargreaves
Teaching Assistants: Mrs McArdle and Vanessa Parker
Welcome to Hawthorn Class. This Class has a combination of Year 5 and Year 6 children and is part of Upper Key Stage 2.
Please check this page regularly to see updates of what we are learning.
Daily Routine
Drop off time: 9.00am
Drop off/collection point: Gates to KS2 yard
Morning playtime: 11.00am
Lunchtime: 12.30-1.30pm
Afternoon playtime: 2.30pm
Collection time: 3.30pm
We strongly believe that all children should experience high quality books that enhance literacy skills and inspire them to read. We aim for children to develop a love of reading and this will help motivate them to write.
To help with this we are sharing a fabulous and highly recommended list of ‘100 Books to Read…’
Reading Spine takes place daily in every classroom where the children are read to. Each of the books help to develop the imagination of our children and equips them with language. We want our school to be a place where children are read to, enjoy, discuss and work with high quality books. We use the Pie Corbett Reading Spine so that children have access to high quality texts and develop a love for reading!
We will be learning the skills of reading and writing. Our fiction unit will include looking at a historical narrative classic: ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’. This will involve the children innovating and creating their own chapter in the book. Once completed, children will move on to create a non-fiction chronological report based upon mythical creatures. We will continue to learn the statutory spellings for Year 5 and 6 as well as using drama to support our learning.
The PE Days for Hawthorn Class are Monday and Thursday. On these days, Hawthorn Class pupils need to come to school in their outdoor PE kit. This includes a white top, navy tracksuit bottoms, navy jacket/waterproof coat and a pair of trainers.
Our focus for this half term will be Animals, including Humans. In which, we will be looking at the changes that happen to humans as they develop to old age.
In Art, the children will be taught to develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials through drawing and painting.
Our topic for this half term will be online safety. We will look at personal identify, how to keep safe on the internet as well as keeping personal information secure.
We will be looking at Place Value for both year groups, which will involve studying Roman Numerals up to 1000. Year 5 will study numbers up to 10 000 and Year 6 will be looking at numbers up to 10 000 000. We will then move onto addition, subtraction, multiplication and division calculations through a mastery approach. We will apply skills learnt through problem solving and reasoning. Children will continue to learn and improve their rapid recall of multiplication and division facts.
We will revise our knowledge reflecting upon our school and British Values. Our topic will look at ‘People of God’ and work on Daniel, thinking about if he made the right choice. We will continue to study the Bible, reflecting upon those in need through prayer and our daily collective class worships
During the first three days in class we painted pebbles. We decided that we would put a memory of lockdown, a thank you or a rainbow or heart on our pebbles. They all did a wonderful job and Mrs Cockcroft has varnished them and added them to our school grounds.
