Welcome to Hares Class
We are a mixed Year 5 and 6 class.
Our class teacher is Mrs Feakes and we are supported by Miss Peacock our Learning Support Assistant who is also a Federation Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA).
Welcome Back!
Dear children, parents, carers and guardians, it has been a pleasure to welcome you all back after the lovely summer break.
We are delighted with how quickly the children have settled back into life in our Thurlow family and it's been great to see all of the children's smiling faces in Hares Class.
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For our themed learning this half term, we are going back in time to discover ‘Maafa’ with our ‘driver’ for the theme History. This project teaches children about Africa past and present, with a particular focus on Benin. It traces the development of the slave trade and explores Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, the causes and consequences of the European colonisation of Africa and the worldwide communities that make up the African diaspora.
Our Science learning will concentrate on the Circulatory System, focusing on transport role of the human circulatory system, its main parts and primary functions. We will learn about healthy lifestyle choices and the effects of harmful substances on the body. As part of our Computing learning sessions we will be focusing on learning how to navigate the internet in an informed, safe and respectful way.
- In language development our French sessions will be focusing on developing vocabulary about Sport and the Olympics with our final outcome to be writing an article in French, using a writing frame, about an imaginary Olympic Games.
In PSHEE, our learning will be supporting our computing unit with a focus of communicating respectfully and safely online. Our BRAVE learning will be focused on Buddhism and answering the question, ‘How does the Triple Refuge help Buddhists in their journey through life?’
In English we will be reading ‘Freedom’ by Catherine Johnson which supports our themed learning by telling the story of a slave boy Nat, shipped to England from a Jamaican plantation in 1783. Later in the term, our writing will be linked with our theme and the book, but to begin with we will be focusing on the Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar where will be going back to basics and learning and building on our knowledge of this area.
In Maths will be looking at Place Value and written methods this half term. This will include numbers up to and beyond a million, comparing numbers and negative numbers. The children will be concentrating on written methods with these numbers using the four operations.For our themed learning, we are going back in time to discover ‘Maafa’ with our ‘driver’ for the theme History. This project teaches children about Africa past and present, with a particular focus on Benin. It traces the development of the slave trade and explores Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, the causes and consequences of the European colonisation of Africa and the worldwide communities that make up the African diaspora.
Our Science learning will concentrate on the Circulatory System, focusing on transport role of the human circulatory system, its main parts and primary functions. We will learn about healthy lifestyle choices and the effects of harmful substances on the body. As part of our Computing learning sessions we will be focusing on learning how to navigate the internet in an informed, safe and respectful way.
- In language development our French sessions will be focusing on developing vocabulary about Sport and the Olympics with our final outcome to be writing an article in French, using a writing frame, about an imaginary Olympic Games.
In PSHEE, our learning will be supporting our computing unit with a focus of communicating respectfully and safely online. Our BRAVE learning will be focused on Buddhism and answering the question, ‘How does the Triple Refuge help Buddhists in their journey through life?’
In English we will be reading ‘Freedom’ by Catherine Johnson which supports our themed learning by telling the story of a slave boy Nat, shipped to England from a Jamaican plantation in 1783. Later in the term, our writing will be linked with our theme and the book, but to begin with we will be focusing on the Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar where will be going back to basics and learning and building on our knowledge of this area.
In Maths will be looking at Place Value and written methods this half term. This will include numbers up to and beyond a million, comparing numbers and negative numbers. The children will be concentrating on written methods with these numbers using the four operations.
Our reading book for this half term:
