Upper Key Stage 2

Assistant Headteacher UKS2

Florence Kirk-Buaku

Phase Timetable

Year 5

Class Assembly 5F – 21/22
Class Assembly 5H – 21/22
Summer Term Knowledge Organiser – 2024- 2025

The latest Year 5 Learning Update!

Dear parents/carers, hope you are all well and enjoying the summer term. There are lots of exciting things happening this half term: on Monday 16^th June at 3.15 you are invited to the summer enterprise market, Year 5 Windrush Carnival will be held on Monday 20^th June and on 23^rd June the children will be visiting ‘The British Film institute’.

Science– Science this term is properties and changes of materials. The children have developed their knowledge of materials and their properties by understanding the difference between synthetic and natural materials.

ENGLISH- The children have used their learning of the Windrush to produce some amazing non chronological reports. These have the following features; subheadings, illustrations, diagrams, glossaries and an introduction. We also created our own Kenning poem based on the Windrush experience.

PE-In order to get the children ready for sports day, they have been working together to perfect their relay and sprinting skills. Children must bring in suitable clothing to change into– shorts, joggers, trainers and T-shirts. This will ensure a level of hygiene.

Humanities: In History we have been learning to empathise with the experiences of The Windrush passengers. We listened to heart felt true stories which inspired our learning.

Maths-The children have been adding and subtracting decimals. They started with the same number of decimal places and very quickly moved onto different decimal places. They learnt how to carry across any digits bigger than the current place value column.

DT– The children have designed stitched and made their own carnival mask. We chose our mask template, cut out our felt masks, used blanket stich to sew around our masks and decorated with glitter and gems.

Computing– In computing we will be using micro bits to explore programming in order to write our names.

Year 6

Class Assembly 6K 2021-2022
Summer Term Knowledge Organiser – 2024-2025

The latest Year 6 Learning Update!

Welcome back to Year 6’s last half term here at Bonneville! First of all, we would like to congratulate everyone on all their hard work, resilience and perseverance in the build up to and during SATs week. We are really proud of them all. Summer 2 is a big term for Year 6 and can be a difficult term because of all the changes that are about to happen. We really want to make their last half term count, so we have lots of fun planned on top of the curriculum that still needs to be taught, as well as supporting them as they are transitioning from primary to secondary school. We will be going on our ‘Reward Trips’ with the Year 6s – many of which have already been booked and you will receive more details on. These are trips as a reward for all their hard work, but also their good behaviour – we will be setting target amounts of DOJOs for the children to reach to enable them to go on the trips. We will also be working towards our end of year production soon, and we look forward to welcoming you all to come and enjoy with us.

This term from Friday 6th June and for 5 weeks every Friday, we will be working with Lambeth Mental Health Support Team (MHST) who will be leading sessions with each class on Transitioning to Secondary School. This is an engaging programme where we will be learning about and talking through the different changes that might happen as they start their journey in secondary school. We hope that working with these trained experts it will provide them with the confidence to talk and ask questions and prepare them for the next stage of the schooling. We will also be doing a Federation wide event, where we mix with Stockwell and Jessop Primary Schools and group the children with others going to the same secondary schools and carry out a range of activities – this is always a fun day out.

We 6 will continue to have PE on Mondays and Fridays, and all children are expected to change into a full PE kit (a white t-shirt and blue or black bottoms) and this should be left in school for any additional PE lessons as they arise – we are practising for an end of year Year 6 versus Staff Rounders tournament! Our Music lessons with Lambeth Music will continue to take place on a Monday. Reading at home is a very important part of homework – children are expected to complete entrances in their reading records a minimum of four times per week – this will also be checked by class teachers each week – this is good practise for secondary school, as the expectation on homework there will dramatically increase!

Maths: In Maths, we have been focusing on using our understanding to answer verbal reasoning, problem solving and varied fluency questions, ensuring that we use our mathematical vocabulary. We have just started a ‘Theme Park’ investigation that puts a wide variety of math skills to the test. We have costed and designed our theme parks and will go on to look at revenue and income, profit and loss and expenses. It’s a good way of putting our maths skills into a real life context.

English: We have been looking at the book “The Lost Words” and using it to inspire our own poetry. We have planned, drafted, edited and performed an acrostic poem on ‘Kingfishers’, and a poem of our choice on ‘barn owls’. We have explored a range of different poetry genres, reading a range of examples and identified poetic devices used and discussed our likes and dislikes. We used them to inspire our ‘barn owl’ poems. We will be moving on to explore, ‘The Lady of Shallot’.

Humanities: We have started our Summer Term topic, “Survivor”. We really enjoyed using a range of mediums (pencil, pastel, crayon and paint) to create a volcano for our topic front pages. In Geography, we have explored mountain types and how they are formed and are going on to study a variety of natural disasters e.g. volcanoes, earthquake, and tsunamis – how they occur, specific examples and the impact. In History, we find out about significant natural disasters in living memory, and the sinking of RMS Titanic – what happened, the stories of survivors and how we can learn from history.

Science: We are looking at ‘Living Things’ in Science. We will start be researching and finding out about a significant artist in the field – Carl Linnaeus. We will go on to look at classification and microorganisms.

PSHCE: We will recap the changes that take place during puberty. We will think about different sorts of changes and how we are becoming more independent. We will consider different types of relationships and how to maintain positive relationships with others and in SRE will learn how a baby is made.

We are always available before and after school on the gates to discuss any questions you may have, The Year 6 Team.