Fishergate Primary School Year 5&6

Year 5&6

Year 5&6

Upper KS2 Curriculum News Autumn Term 2017

This term’s topic is


Topics in other subjects are:

  • Computing: E-safety & Music and Sound
  • Science: Evolution and Inheritance
  • Properties and Changes of Materials (Potions!)
  • DT: Cooking and Nutrition
  • Music: Livin’ on a Prayer
  • Art: Textiles
  • PE: Orienteering, Tag rugby, Netball, Football
  • RE: If God is everywhere, why go to a place of worship?
  • Foreign Languages: French
  • Geography: Vegetable belts and biomes (Herbology!)

Maths

This term we will focus on these topics:

  • Multiples
  • Place value of large numbers and decimals
  • Formal written strategies for the four operations
  • Fractions
  • Properties of 2D and 3D shape

Please take time each week to help your child practise for the next sticker on their Going for Gold certificate and support them in their weekly maths homework and Mathletics tasks.

English

We will be focusing on the following:

  • Explanation writing
  • Instructions
  • Developing skills in editing and redrafting
  • Poetry techniques
  • Playscripts

Please help your child practise the spellings they are given each week in their planner as well as their bookmark spellings.

Thank you for your support

Dani Rees, Josh Burnell, Andrea Walton & Sarah Wilson

Click to download the Year 5-6 Autumn Term Curriculum News as a .pdf

Don’t forget that this Friday 30th June is non-uniform day to support the summer fair. Please bring in tombola prizes, filled jam jars (sweets, crafts, marbles whatever you like), bottles for the bottle stall, teddies and toys (NO books or second hand clothes other than uniform please).

URGENT NEED FOR PARENT HELPERS

Please find your class stall list outside the classrooms and sign up or tell Emma in the office and she will put your name down. Half an hour from each parent helps enormously. If you can stay to help at 5pm to help clear up please do…..

CAN YOU HELP?

We need to be able to play music for the gymnasts to do their display and we will also need a microphone, both with amplification. Can you help? Where can we borrow from?? Final plea for cake contributions on the day – thank-you – let’s make it a great summer fair xFriends of Fishergate

 

Music News, News, Year 1&2, Year 3&4, Year 5&6

Last choir next week – 28th June

To all the parents, carers and children,

Thank you for all your hard work and support this year at choir.  We have taken part in so many different activities this school year, including carol singing in the city centre and at Selby Abbey, singing at the Cgristmas fair and, of course, Young Voices.  You have all been brilliant!

Next week (Wednesday 28th June) will be out last choir session before the summer holidays as there are so many different things happening in the last few weeks of term for both staff and pupils.

We hope to see lots of familiar faces back at choir next year.  We have another very exciting year ahead of us!

Kind regards,

Rachel Teale and Liz Spain.

Forest School, Year 5&6

Year 5/6 Forest Schools

Year 5 and 6 have thoroughly enjoyed their Forest School experiences this term. We have made frames with our knot-tying techniques, built our own dens (and tested them in wet conditions) and have now started work on a new project…

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History News, Year 5&6

Greek democracy

As part of their Ancient Greeks Topic, and with links to the General Election last week, Year 5 and 6 have been discussing the development of democracy in Ancient Greece. We have had class votes on four different types of…

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Science News, Year 5&6

Super Science at half term

Fishergate students are such keen scientists – even outside of school they love to extend their learning!  If you carry out some exciting scientific enquiries at home, at the weekend or in the school holidays, you can ask Mrs Ekers if you can share your discoveries here on our website.

This pupil learned to use two different sorts of pipette to carefully and accurately measure liquids when they carried out a chemistry experiment at the Centre for Life in Newcastle – and made a rainbow!  The “universal indicator” shows how acid or alkali a solution is by changing colour.