Welcome to Year 4/5/6

Happy New Year!  I hope that you all had a wonderfully relaxing and happy Christmas break. Thank you, from all of the staff in our Team, for the cards and gifts that you gave us at the end of last term – they were all much appreciated. 

For details about what each Year group will be covering in their units of work, please see the Knowledge Organisers that are available on this website. We do encourage you to read these with your children and talk about what they are learning at school. 

Year 4 have begun the term by looking at fantasy writing in English and are working towards being able to write a narrative in an imaginary setting, with unusual characters and magical elements, using expanded noun phrases and speech dialogue accurately. They are looking at all of the components of a fantasy text and will be developing their settings and characters over the next couple of weeks. In Maths, they are focusing on geometry and will learn about the properties of shapes as well as the different types of angles. 

The children’s History unit this term is Charles I and the English Civil War; by the end of the unit, the children should be able to answer the question, “How did the division of England change throughout Charles I reign and the English Civil War?” In Art, their work ties in well with their RE as they are focussing on Islamic art. In Science, the children have started a unit on Earth and Space and will be learning about why we have night and day and the movement of both the Earth and Moon. 

In Year 5/6, the children have made a great start to an English unit of work based on writing a balanced argument. Their model text is, “Should children be allowed to walk to school by themselves?” As they build to writing their own balanced argument, they will be learning about cohesive devices in writing, adverbs of possibility, relative clauses and modal verbs. In Maths, Year 5 have completed some work on Roman Numerals and are now revisiting place value and rounding numbers. Year 6 have looked at properties of shapes, calculating missing angles and are now busy mastering measuring and drawing angles using a protractor – it’s quite a challenge! 

In Art they are learning all about the different types of landscape drawing, using perspective and charcoal and will soon be introduced to the life and works of Angela Edwards. The children have started their new Science unit which is all about light and vision. In History, the children will gradually become experts in anything and everything to do with The Tudors; they have started by learning about the different Tudor monarchs. 

Many thanks for all your help and support, and I hope everyone has an enjoyable, exciting and happy Spring Term 2026. 

Best wishes,