Welcome to Year 4/5/6

The Year 4 classes all continue to work hard. In English, the children have just started a new unit of work where they will be writing a diary entry based on a traditional story. They will be specifically focussing on using paragraphs to organise their writing as well as writing in the first person. In Maths, the children have completed a unit on multiplication and division and are now in the thick of fractions – comparing and ordering fractions, converting improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa. 

After learning about Henry VIII and his wives, the children are finding out more about Elizabeth I before moving on to looking at Tudor portraiture and its significance. In Geography, they have been looking at features of the South-East and London before looking at how London has changed over time. Their Science work has covered how sound is made and how sound travels; they will soon be learning about volume, vibrations and pitch. In Art, they have started a unit of work focussing on Paul Klee and they are practising their line drawings and use of tints and colour theory when painting. 

In Year 5/6, the children have made a good return to school after half term and the Year 6s are busily helping to sell poppies across the school for the Royal British Legion as well joining with the whole school to rehearse the remembrance song. 

In Maths, the Year 5 children are focussing on fractions, decimals and percentages before moving on to a unit on measurement. Year 6 children have recently learnt how to find the mean average of a set of numbers and will soon be focussed on adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions. Having finished a unit of work in English on non-chronological reports, Year 5/6 have made a start on their mystery and suspense text with a focus on writing differently structured sentences. 

Following their visits to the National Space Centre last half term, the children are continuing to deepen their knowledge about our solar system and will soon be learning about the life and work of Galileo. In Geography, they are continuing their unit of work about Rivers and have learnt about the different features and stages of rivers. They will now be learning about important rivers within the UK and the whole world. 

Both year 5 and Year 6 are rehearsing hard in preparation for their concert and production at the end of term. It’s going to be a busy time for us all!