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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Spring Term 2024

 

Happy New Year!

 

Our Christian Values

During the Spring term, our Christian values are service, humility and trust.

 

“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 other and help encourage each other to make the right decisions, along with celebrating for our individual wins.

 

Our class novel for Spring 1 is ‘Gulliver’ retold by Martin Jenkins.

 

 

 

 

Our class novel for Spring 2 is The Explorer by Katherine Rundell

 

 

 

 

 

 

English

In our first half term we will be using the text 'The Selfish Giant' by Oscar Wilde to develop our writing skills. We will work on personification, expanded noun phrases, speech, letter writing, report writing, before ending with our independent piece. This piece will focus on writing a version of the Selfish Giant narrative - choosing either a retelling in 1st or 3rd person or from a character’s point of view.

 

In our second half term we will be using the text ‘Island’ by Jason Chin. We will work on newspaper report, persuasive argument, scientist’s field log, short recount, before writing our independent piece. This writing will be to write an explanative report (hybrid) about Charles Darwin’s discoveries.

 

 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 Soring term, Year 5 will work on multiplication and division, fractions, decimals and percentages, perimeter and area and statistics. Year 6 will work on ratio, algebra, decimals, fractions, decimals and percentages, area, perimeter and volume and statistics.

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 this term we are focusing on properties and changes of materials. As scientists, we aim to develop our knowledge and understanding, scientific skills and measuring and recording abilities.

 

History and Geography

As historians and geographers, we will be studying the question ‘Shang Dynasty- what do all the Ancient Civilisations have in common?’

 

RE

For RE we will continue to use the Questful RE planning. For the first half term we will be focusing on ‘The Exodus: Why is the Exodus such a significant event in Jewish and Christian history?’

During the second half term we will focus on ‘The Eucharist: Why do Christians celebrate the Eucharist? 5.4 Easter: Why do Christians believe that Easter is a celebration of victory?’

 

PE

Will take place on Friday mornings.

 

Art

As artists, we will be looking at Jade carvings.

 

DT

As designers, we will be working on textiles.

 

PHSE

For the first half term, we are going to be focusing on Global diversity and Discrimination.

For the second half term, we are going to be focusing on British Values.

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 Friday 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.