Upper Key Stage 2 Newsletter

Key Messages

As November’s wintry weather approaches, please consider sending your child in with spare shoes if they are attending a sports club on a wet morning.
Children will also need warm, waterproof coats for playtime.
Year 5 will be focusing on the ‘-able’ rule next week in spellings.
Throughout our English learning this week, we have been focusing on possessive and plural forms of nouns, to ensure the children are correctly punctuating their sentences. Please ask your child to teach you when/ how to use an apostrophe to see how much they can remember!
Optional values homework

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Year 5

This week in Year 5, children have started their first history lesson of the year. We began by recapping key learning from Year 4, and looking at Anglo Saxon Britain before any attempted Viking invasion. In science, with great enthusiasm, the children commenced their new unit on forces. We discussed the significance of Isaac Newton and created our own (slightly wild) experiment to prove the existence of gravity.

The children are thoroughly enjoying our book, ‘Holes’. We have reached a dramatic part (Mr Sir’s venomous scratch) and everyone is hooked. In English, we are finalising our work on Hidden Figures with a ‘PEE’ structured letter from the perspective of ‘shero’, Katherine Johnson.

Year 6

This half term in Year 6, in english, we have been learning how to write a traditional poem about insects.

Year 6 have voted to have The Valley of the lost secrets as our new Book for reading for pleasure. We have been practicing for our SATs in May by doing mock papers. We have changed from Computing to RE and Geography to History. In PE we have been doing a fun sport - Dodgeball.

These are all the important things in Year 6.

Written by Vinayak and Enni