Welcome to our Falcons page.

 

 

 

"Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become

children of light.”

Ready, Respectful, Resilient

 

 

Meet the Falcons Team- 

 

 

        Miss Byrne                                                                         Mrs Armstrong                                                     Mrs Critchley                                                    Mrs Baker

      Class Teacher                                                                    Teaching Assitant                                               Teaching Assitant                                          Teaching Assitant

 

                                                                                

 

 

The following information tells you a little more about the coming term in Falcons and your child's learning. However, if you have any queries or questions please don't hesitate to contact me.

byrne@kingsleystjohns.co.uk 

 

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Autumn Term 2024

 

Welcome back Falcons!

 

Our Christian Values

During the Autumn term, our Christian values are friendship, thankfulness, peace and hope.

 

“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.” Peter 4:8-10

“Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing”- Thessalonians 5:11

 

 In Falcons, we all have different strengths and characteristics, and we are going to use them to help support and guide each other through our year in school. We will be there for each and help encourage each other to make the right decisions, along with celebrating for our individual wins.

 

Our class novel for this half-term is ‘An eagle in the Snow’ by Michael Morpurgo

 

 

English

In our first half term we will be using the text 'Star of Fear, Star of Hope' by Jo Hoestlandt to develop our writing skills and end with an independent piece, focusing on writing a story that contains a flashback from another character’s point of view.

 

In the second half term our text will move to ‘Can we save the tiger?’ written by Martin Jenkins and we will work on a variety of skills and end with a report focusing on an animal.

 

 

Spelling

We will continue to use Pathways to Spell as part of our English lessons to develop spelling strategies and learn spelling rules, as well as the Y5/6 common exception words.

 

Maths

We are continuing to use and follow White Rose Maths. During the Autumn term, both Year 5 and 6 will be covering place value, the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), fractions, and Year 6 will also complete the converting unit’s unit.

As mathematicians, the children will learn through concrete experiences moving onto pictorial and abstract methods as their confidence builds. They will also be expected to use their learning to reason about maths and solve problems. 

 

Science

For the first half term we are focusing on Evolution and Inheritance. As scientists, we aim to develop our knowledge and understanding, scientific skills and measuring and recording abilities.

We will have a focus on Charles Darwin and look into his research and findings to help further our knowledge.

 

For the second half term, we will move on to Living things and their habitats.

 

History and Geography

As historians and geographers, we will be studying the question ‘Raiders or settlers- how should we remember the Vikings? How have the influenced our lives today?’

We will explore a variety of texts and artefacts to understand and learn about the Vikings about who they were as people, why they moved to Britain and the rivalry between the Vikings and Saxons. We will also explore how much from Saxon and Viking times are in todays world.

 

RE

For RE we will continue to use the Questful RE planning. For the first half term we will be focusing on ‘Life as a journey’ with our question being ‘Is every person’s journey the same?’.

We are going to discuss and explore our own journeys that has happened so far. We will explore Christianity and how people may take the journey of being a Christian within their life and compare to other religions and faiths.

 

PE

Our PE will concentrate on gymnastics with Kick PE looking at how we can develop and improve our skills. PE will take place on a Wednesday afternoon.

During the Autumn Term, we also have our swimming lessons that are due to take place on Tuesday afternoons.

 

Art

As artists, we will be looking at Viking Art.

 

DT

As designers, we will be looking at mechanisms.

 

PHSE

For the first half term, we are going to be focusing on our Health- physically and mentally. We will be exploring how it’s important to look after both. We will explore topics that can have an effect on mental wellbeing as well as physically such as dealing with stress and looking into why people do and don’t use drugs/smoking.

We will also have focused time on our British Values: democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs as well as the nine protected characteristics.

 

Music

As musicians, we will be using Charanga to explore musical styles and different sounds.

 

MFL

As linguists, we will continue to have Madame Carter on Wednesday morning to deliver our French lessons.

 

Homework

Homework will be sent out on Friday to be returned on or before the following Wednesday.  We expect each piece to take about 20 minutes.  Please come and see us if there are any difficulties or write a note on the piece of work.

 

General information

• Please tie up long hair.
• Please have a bottle of water at school every day. This can be refilled as necessary.
• Please bring a small school bag.
• Please return your homework book on or before Wednesday for marking. Homework will be sent out on a Friday.
• All school uniform needs to be named but particularly jumpers and cardigans. 

PE is timetabled for Wednesday and will be outside whenever possible. In cold weather, please add a jumper, trousers and gloves as we will still go outside. Should it be sunny, please add sun hats and suncream if needed.