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!
Autumn 1
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.
Autumn 2
We will be learning the skills of reading and writing. Our fiction unit will include looking at a historical narrative classic, ‘A Christmas Carol.’ This will involve the children
innovating and creating their own Christmas Carol Story. We will be looking at persuasive texts with a focus on a place to visit in the British Isles. Additionally, the children will also study classic narrative poetry linked to Charles Causley and Timothy Winters.
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.
Autumn 1
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.
Autumn 2
This half term, we have been looking at materials and reversible and irreversible changes. We found ways to separate materials using evaporation, filtration, sieving and magnetism. We also created new materials! Warm milk and white vinegar were used to create casein plastic, and a gas was made that was able to blow up a balloon, using bicarbonate of soda and white vinegar. We had fun separating the materials and watching the new materials being created.
Autumn 1
In Art, the children will be taught to develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials through drawing and painting.
Autumn 2
In DT, we will be evaluating bird boxes that are already available to purchase. We will then design and use our skills to make our own bird box. At the end of the process we will evaluate what we have created.
Autumn 1
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.
Autumn 2
Our topic for this half term will be online safety and spreadsheets. We will be using spreadsheets to plan an event after exploring the functions available.
Autumn 1
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.
Autumn 2
We will continue to revise place value, addition and subtraction from Autumn 1. Alongside this, we will be looking at multiplication, division and fractions. We will continue to work on times tables to ensure secure knowledge and quick recall of multiplication and division facts. Arithmetic questions will also be incorporated into our lessons to secure knowledge of key skills.
Autumn 1
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
Autumn 2
The children will be reflecting upon their own experiences of Christmas, building their knowledge of the Christmas Story and researching how Christmas is celebrated around the world. We will continue to study the Bible, reflecting upon those in need through prayer and our daily collective class worships
PSHE
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.
October Challenge
For October, Mrs Dugdale set us a challenge to achieve something by the end of the month. She had been inspired by Captain Tom so wanted to see what we could do. As a class, we decided that we were going to learn British Sign Language to sign along to ‘A Million Dreams’ from the Greatest Showman. We also decided that I should accompany the children by playing along on my clarinet, that I had not got out for about 20 years! I am so proud of how the children in Hawthorn Class persevered to learn the signs and what a success it was! Well done everyone – I am a very proud teacher!
Remembrance Day
Take a look below at our contribution to the Remembrance Day display.
