The Grange Primary School_UKS2 overview

Reading

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All children have a new reading book and bookmark to take home.

This needs to be in school every day please. We expect the children to be reading at least 4 times a week, preferably more if possible.

Grange Primary School

Maths Knowing their Timestables in Year 5 and 6 are key to children being able to understand their maths work. We need to practise daily at home and in school to help the children learn and remember their tables.

Spellings

COVID-19

Children will be learning a new spelling pattern every week. They will be sent home with the pattern to practise every day and they will be tested every Friday in school.

Please be extremely VIGILANT. If your child shows any signs of illness they need to stay at home. Please inform the school office and follow the advice on www.nhs.uk/ conditions/coronavirus-covid -19/

Upper Key Stage 2 Autumn 1 Half Termly Overview Staff Members:

Reminders

Maple class:

Beech class:

Yew class:

Upper Key Stage 2 PE days will be Tuesday and Friday. On these days children should arrive in their school PE for the day.

Mrs Rovizzi

Mrs Hughes

Miss Jones

Mrs Perrins

Mrs Perrins

We also ask you to ensure your children wear correct uniform and arrive at school smart and punctual at all times.

Teaching assistants working with all classes in Upper Key Stage 2 Mrs Chadwick

Mrs Jew

Mrs Evans

Mrs Carpenter Mrs Cotton

English

Topic: Recovery and Belonging

In English, we will be continuing with the theme of belonging and loss. We will be using Shaun Tan’s book, ‘The Lost Thing,’ to explore the concept of belonging and how we can feel like we belong. We will be using this story to help create our own versions of the lost thing and then write and explanation text to explain about it. Finally, we will be learning some performance poetry about our hope and dreams for the future which will finish in a class poetry slam (a mini performance friendly competition).

How to help your child at home: 

Support your child in reading at least four times a week

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Please visit Purple Mash for spelling practice and practise weekly spellings.

As we welcome the children back into school, our focus for this half term will be settling them back into a learning routine, getting to know them and how to keep ourselves safe at school.

As part of our return to school as a community, we have been creating self portraits including clues to our inner self and contributing to a whole school art project to create a school flower—we are blossoming together.

Maths Throughout this term, the children will be learning about place value, addition, subtraction and will begin to learn about multiplication and division written strategies. We will also be looking at some statistics through their science investigations as well.

How to help your child at home: 

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All children should know times tables up to 12 x 12 and corresponding facts. Just 5 minutes time a day will keep these fresh. Both Purple Mash and TTRockstars have support. If your child doesn’t have a password, please ask your child’s class teacher.

Practise and learn 5 weekly facts.

Our other curriculum subjects will focus on personal and social development, Science, RE and physical activity (including the daily mile) for this half term.

In personal and social education we will also be thinking about what makes us more resilient as learners, how to manage our fears and worries, gratitude, managing the year ahead and how to deal with unexpected change.

In Science, we will be learning about the life cycle and parts of a plant. We will investigating what effects the growth of a plant and practising our investigation skills.

In RE, we will be learning about creation stories from around the world and how they are similar or different to each other.