Class 12 – Year 5/6

We are so excited so welcome you into Class 12.

In Spring Term, we will be looking at the Victorians era, the Industrial Revolution and the growth of the British Empire before moving onto local history. In Computing, we will look at flat-file databases and how to search through records using fields along with creating games in Scratch. In Art, we will be looking at textiles and weaving and after half term we will be printing linking this to William Morris. In science, we will be looking at forces and how they act upon one another before studying the Earth, Sun and Moon. In RSHE, we will be focusing on healthy online relationships and how to keep ourselves safe online, before moving onto Mental Wellbeing. Mechancal Systems is our topic in Design and Technology after half term, when we will be looking at pulleys and gears and making links to our science topic, forces. In Religious Education, we focus on three questions; ‘Do we all have a mission in life?’, ‘Why do we need memories?’ and ‘Why do we need to make sacrifices?’. In Spanish, we look at how people in Spain celebrate the new year and our hobbies and sports along with food and Easter.

In English, during Autumn term, we will be looking at two books ‘The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar Wilde when we will be writing descriptive pieces, diaries, newspaper reports and retelling the story from the giant’s point of view and ‘The Deepest Dark by Chris Hadfield, for this we will be writing a biography and a non-chronological report.

In maths, we will be learning about: time; position and direction, fractions, decimals and percentages; ratio and proportion, algebra, statistics shape and measure.