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. Here are some documents that will help you with our ‘School Improvement Priority 1 – Reading’
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!
Take a look below at some of our writing.
In Maths, we continue to develop our mathematical skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Fractions, percentages, decimals, data, shape and geometry will also be a focus and we use the mastery approach to develop these skills. Children are encouraged to use Times Tables Rockstars to consolidate their multiplication and division facts.
In Religious Education, we have explored Easter traditions and celebrations around the world. We will be following this by looking at Pentecost and ideas about God. In class, we complete our daily worship through Picture News and key information from Blackburn Diocese. We also look forward to our weekly whole school celebration worship, where we celebrate what we are proud of.
Remembrance Day
Take a look below at our contribution to the Remembrance Day display.
In PSHE, this half term, we are looking at four themes as we reconnect as a class and a school; self-efficacy, hope, gratitude and connectedness. We are thinking about all that we are hopeful for, and grateful for as well as how we are important, how we make a difference and how we can support and encourage our friends when we are finding things difficult. We will be thinking about keeping ourselves safe, healthy, and continuing to work on our own well-being.
We are investigating the different forces that act on the objects around us. We will investigate the life cycles of different mammals, birds and insects, as well as investigating how sound is created and moves.
We asked some of the children what they thought of our new house teams.
We are going to be exploring the rainforests of the world, thinking about the human and physical features of these amazing places. The cities nearby will also be explored and we will be thinking about how these places may change in the future.
Game Creator, on Purple Mash is being used to create our own maze games! We are looking forward to playing these and seeing if we can dodge the baddies!
In DT, we are using Oak Academy to develop our 3D modelling skills with the outcome to design a shelter.
Hawthorn Class have been learning the names of body parts and using these to develop reading and speaking skills in Spanish.
