Welcome to Sycamore Class Year 5 & 6
TO SYCAMORE CLASS
Our Teaching Team is:
Miss Lavery, Mrs Christie, Mrs Warne, Mrs Littlewood & Miss Beardsley.
Our whole team are looking forward to working with you all this year. We will work hard but also have some fun and create lots of super memories with each and every one of you.
A few things to remember:
Any child requiring an inhaler needs to have it in school every day.
- We enter, from 8.40am, and exit, from 3.15-3.30pm, through the green gate on Beech Walk.
- Please bring a named water bottle to school each day.
- If you have a sports afterschool club, wear your school uniform and bring your PE kit in a bag so that you can get changed after school.
- Please check all your clothes are labelled, especially coats and jumpers!
- Please remember our school uniform policy.
Please note the following days for your child to come to school ready in their PE kit. Hair should be tied back and earrings removed before school. If it is their swimming day, could children please come in their PE kit and bring their Swimming Kit to change into (no costumes under clothes):
From wc Monday 15th May 2023:
THE Sycamore Class PE DAY is on TUESDAY (for year 5 and year 6)
Sycamore Class Gallery
Our Home Learning:
Spellings:
Your current 'set' of 5 spelling words from your 'Super Spelling' booklet, which will be tested through the week.
Reading:
When an adult has listened to you read, please record this in your reading record. All reading can be recorded not just your school reading book. Remember you can also use Active Learn to read e-Books. Website: ActiveLearn: Login (activelearnprimary.co.uk)
Times Tables:
Times tables will be taught in school and should also be practiced at home. Remember you can use the Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) website to practice. Website: Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)
Mirodo:
Mirodo is our new online home learning resource and it is up-and-running! Login to complete the TASKS set by your teacher. You can also build your knowledge about any topics in the 'Practice' or 'Lesson' areas of the website. Remember, if you complete your tasks = coins and gems to spend on your avatar! There is also a 'Mindfulness' area too, helping you to learn some useful techniques to relax
Website: Mirodo Education - Mirodo Education
Click below to find your spelling booklet and more information about home learning - reading, spellings and times tables.
Our Curriculum:
We hope that you are going to have a FUN TIME learning this year!
Have a look at our 2022-23 topics by clicking the link below:
Our topic this term is:
'Dig for Victory'
We will be investigating life on the British Home Front during WWII -
a significant turning point in British history. How did the British people cope with the Blitz, evacuation, rationing and having to ‘Make do and Mend’?
We will be finding out what it was really like for evacuees, growing our own vegetables, and even trying out some rationing food!
We will also be studying a couple of WWII themed books over the summer term, during English and Guided Reading lessons:
Letters from the Lighthouse By Emma Carroll and Code-cracking for Beginners
Remember to regularly visit our school library, and enjoy the wide variety of books it has on offer. Pick a reading book to read in school and at home.
Have you tried the Mundy Reading Challenge yet? Ask one of our class librarians for more information.
We will be choosing a NEW class reading book for this term - so please give your book suggestions to
Miss Lavery or Mrs Christie
What to learn more? Want something different to do at home?
Why don't you have a look at some of these websites that you may find useful and fun (click on the links below), and please let us know what you think of them.
- Active Learn
- TT Rockstars
- Maths puzzles and investigations
- KS2 SATs bitesize revision English, Maths, Science
- Newsround
- Science quizzes
- Homework help
We are looking forward to an amazing term ahead. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions you may have.