Upper Key Stage 2
Phase Leader UKS2
Rachel Kelleher
Year 5
Summer Term 1 Knowledge Organiser – 2025/2026
The latest Year 5 Learning Update!
We have had a busy half term, with lots of wonderful learning. Thank you for all your hard work and support at home and we hope you have a restful half term.
In English, after half term, we will be immersing ourselves in a new text, an autobiographical story – Coming to England by Baroness Floella Benjamin. We will be writing diary entries and learning how to create suspense in an action scene before writing our own narrative about a family coming to the UK during the Windrush time.
We will continue learning about place value and adding and subtracting decimals in Maths! We will further develop these skills before moving on to converting units of measurement.
In Science, we are continuing to learn about Properties and changes of Materials. Our Scientist of the term will be Marie Curie and we will be learning about reversible and irreversible changes of state.
In the Humanities, our Windrush Journeys topic continues and we will deepen our understanding of the physical and human geographical features of Jamaica and explore people’s account of their Windrush Journey. We will compare Jamaica and the UK using geographical language.
We have starting creating our own carnival masks for DT, ready for our Caribbean Carnival at the end of June and we will also be exploring the work of Brianna McCarthy – a Caribbean artist who uses mixed media to create colourful collages.
The Year 5 team would like to remind you that homework will be sent out on Fridays and is due in the following Wednesday. This is available on Google Classroom; paper homework will only be given out in exceptional circumstances as the school is committed to reducing paper consumption and looking after the environment. Please also ensure that Reading Records are brought to school every Friday with evidence of reading AT LEAST 3 times a week. Children can write their own comments but an adult needs to sign the book at least once a week to confirm this. Spellings will also go home on a Friday and the children will be tested each week on Wednesday. Please also ensure that your child completes Times Tables Rockstars daily to help with fluency.
Year 6
Summer Term 1 Knowledge Organiser – 2025/2026
The latest Year 6 Learning Update!
Year 6 have been working extremely hard to revise their reading, SPaG and maths skills in preparation for their SATs, and this focus will continue throughout the rest of the week.
The Year 6 team would like to remind parents and carers that there is now just one week until the children’s exams. Attendance and punctuality are essential during this important period. We also encourage families to support their children in completing any revision or homework set by staff.
