Elm Class with Mrs Thompson

Hello and welcome to UKS2 (Year 5 and 6). Y6 - Mr. Allport is the class teacher in Oak class, Mrs. Bastable is the class teacher in Yew class, Y5 - Mrs. Thompson is the class teacher in Elm class, and Miss. Atkar is the class teacher in Fir class. We are also very lucky to have support from Miss. Shepherd, Mrs. Irvine, Mrs. Grove, Ms. Gibbons, Mrs. Hadfield and Mrs. Walker who work with children throughout the year both supporting in class and with targeted group work. Using each teacher's expertise, each class is also taught by each teacher every week with Mr. Allport teaching Computing, Mrs. Thompson teaching RE, Miss. Atkar teaching Grammar and Mrs. Bastable working through whole text book studies to develop reading for pleasure as a lifelong skill.

Each class also has a half a term of specialist PE teaching from a teacher from Idsall (Mrs. Thompson) please look out for dojos with updates for this. Our PE days are Wednesday, and Thursday with Mr. Jones and Mrs. Smith.

Homework is set on Thursdays and consists of a spelling homework and a maths homework. For maths homework we generally use MyMaths and each child has their own secure login and password to access, not just their homework, but also a plethora of fun games and revision lessons available to enrich and support their mathematics work. We are also using Spelling Shed for spelling and children will have their own login to access spellings, games as well as grammar games and revision!  If there are any issues accessing MyMaths please let class teachers know. Children also have their own Times Tables Rockstars logins and we encourage children to practise tables at least once a week as these are crucial to their success at the end of KS2.  They will also have a Multiplication Tables book from which homework is sometimes set. 

Spellings are tested by dictation on Fridays. The benefit of the dictations rather than just a spelling list are great and we are checking that children can spell these key words, punctuate sentences carefully and that they understand the meaning of the spellings in context. Please encourage your children to practise regularly (a homework sheet will be sent on Thursdays) and to use their Spelling Shed login.

Year 5 enjoy our class novel every day and to begin the autumn term we will be reading The Time Travelling Cat and the Egyptian Goddess by Julia Jarman.