Upper KS2 - Years 5 & 6
Acer   Birch   Chestnut

Welcome to Acer, Birch and Chestnut

Miss Sophie Whittaker, Mr Jeremy Davy and Mr Mark O'Dubhain are pleased to welcome you to Acer, Birch and Chestnut where children in Year 5 and 6 learn together. Teaching and Learning is supported by Mrs Nicola Booth and Miss Kim Wright.

Learning in Acer, Birch and Chestnut

We aim to provide an exciting and enriched learning environment through the use of enquiry learning. We take time each week to nurture the children’s essential skills. We take a particular interest in the recall and use of times tables, to support our number work.


Cursive handwriting is now encouraged, with the children aiming for consistency across all written work. We provide each child with the necessary support to develop their social and emotional wellbeing, by providing positive models.



Spring 2 2024

Term Focus - Dreams and Goals

In an exciting half term Acer, Birch and Chestnut are working on the fascinating geography topic of population growth and how it affects our planet.

We are also working on writing recounts using the wonderful 'Where My Wellies Take Me' as our inspiration. Our Jigsaw theme is 'Healthy Me' where we are learning about making healthy choices.

Our Year 6 children continue to work hard in preparation for their SATS tests in May.  

In music we will be learning about 'Motown' with a focus on 'Dancing in the Street' !

March 2022

Heatree

Year 5/6 had a fantastic week on their residential at Heatree! The weather was more than kind, the food amazing the activities were challenging, exciting and fun. We were so proud of all our children who really Aimed High and Achieved the Best! We hope that these experiences will become wonderful memories for everyone.

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    World Book Day

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On World Book Day, 5/6 played character 'Truth or Dare' in order to guess their secret character's name. We also made our own books, ready for our own stories to be written in them! 

Reading

We value independent reading in Year 5 and 6 and hold the expectation that each child should be reading as much as possible at home.


We keep a reading log on Seesaw in the Reading Reviews folder and encourage the children to keep this up to date with their latest books! This helps us to assist each child in choosing a wider selection of texts, and helps to promote the reading of different texts between friends.


Please encourage your child to read in every spare moment!

Children enjoying our new look Year 5/6 library on World Book Day.





Coding this week! Changing and exploring variables. We really enjoyed an old-fashioned game of ‘Pong’.

January 2022

This week in Year 5 & 6 we have been working on coding Sphero robots to complete a course. Great teamwork and debugging skills on show! 

The children have started learning how to play the Djembe.

November 2021

5/6 have been delving deep into what equality means and how it feels. We celebrate the differences between us all, even between our friends. We are all different and that is worth celebrating! 

October 2021

We are ARTISTS! We designed our own monogram, then created a stamp using a craft knife! We loved our results. 

September 2021

We are GEOGRAPHERS. 5/6 making the most of a dry moment doing field sketches following their learning about OASIS (orientation, annotation, scale, information, what can be seen).

In Birch we are READY! We are have an ‘I can do it’ attitude, we are curious, we are not afraid of the ‘Learning Pit’ and we are organised!

5th - 9th July 2021

5/6 first trip out in 2 years - Haven Banks. All children were a credit to themselves and the school, demonstrating our school values. 

28th June - 2nd July 2021

21st - 25th June 2021

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    Algebra in action!



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    … and Javelin practice. 

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14th - 18th June 2021

Children in Year 5/6 have been making the most of the good weather, exploring our wildlife area as inspiration for our work on poetry. We wrote some amazing haikus and performed them beneath the weeping willow.

7th - 11th June 2021

Our next Literacy unit sees us writing poems about nature so we got inspiration from our very own ‘wild area’. 

24th - 28th May 2021

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The children in Year 5/6 have had an incredibly busy week . We have finished our iMovie films where we practiced editing - some fantastic short films! We also held our 'Festival Feasts' with our completed modroc models where we practiced colour mixing and used paint and oil pastel to finish our models. Have a great half term everyone!

17th - 21st May 2021

An exceptionally busy week has seen us writing essays on the Middle East, painting our festival feasts, filming and editing short films, enhancing our ukulele skills, learning some conversational German and exploring angles in maths. Phew!

10th - 14th May 2021

Our very busy week included making models from modrock for a ‘festival feast’ in Year 5/6. The children were really creative with slices of cake, sushi rolls and fish and chips on the menu! Our next step is to carefully paint our models and photograph them! Look out for the pictures soon!

4th - 7th May 2021

This week Year 5/6 had a fun afternoon completing Middle East activities from our History topic in PE. Pupils completed orienteering, map building and a variety of team building activities. 

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