Curriculum Newsletter

Parent Presentation

Welcome to Galaxy Class!

The class adults are Mrs Heath and Mrs Groves (Class Teachers) and Mrs Hamblin (LSA / Year 6 Intervention). 

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Learning Experience

To inspire the children at the start of this Learning Experience, they will be visited by the Rainforest Roadshow, where they will explore rainforests in depth and the animals and people that are found within them.

Rationale:

In this experience, the children will locate rainforests and explore the issues concerning these habitats around the world. A visit from the Rainforest Roadshow will give them some first-hand experience of this kind of habitat and the animals and people that are found in them. The children will develop a deeper understanding of all living things and how plants and animals have adapted to their environment. In addition to this, they will create artwork inspired by the colours and textures of the rainforest.

Hook: The children will be visited by the Rainforest Roadshow on Thursday 11^th September 2025. During the day, the children will have the opportunity to: explore life in the Rainforest, look at some live invertebrates, explore tribal artefacts and make tribal jewellery.

Outcome: The children will display their rainforest artwork inspired by John Dyer in an Art Gallery for parents and family to visit. The date of the Gallery opening will Thursday 16^th October 2025 at 3.15pm.

Take home tasks:

Choose from one, or even more, of the following. Alternatively, choose something of your own – get creative!

• Produce a 2D or 3D rainforest habitat
• Draw animals found in the rainforest
• Produce a PPT about the endangered species found in the rainforest
• Write an adventure story set in the rainforest
• Research some interesting rainforest facts

Hand in date: Friday 17^th October 2025

How you can support your child at home:

• Use maps to locate rainforests and discuss the environmental issues surrounding them.
• Explore what life is like in the rainforest and the people/animals that are found there.
• Learn tables facts up to 12 x 12 – recall should be quick and accurate.
• Ensure that your child reads at least 5 times a week and has the opportunity to discuss their reading. with you. Please could you ensure this is recorded in their reading record.
• Ensure that your child completes a weekly reading activity in their reading records.
• Ensure they complete their weekly Maths homework and hand it in on time.
• Support your child with learning their weekly spellings.

Our PE days will staying on a Wednesday and Friday.  Please ensure children come to school in the correct kit on these days and that long hair is tied back. We do not allow the children to wear earrings for PE so please can they be removed on these days or taped over. 

Thank you for taking the time to read all the information. 

Mrs Heath & Mrs Groves

Class rewards 

In order to promote positive behaviour, we reward the children with: raffle tickets, smiley faces, fishy points (house points) and a reading treat. If the class is able to achieve 100 reads, then the children who contributed significantly will be able to choose a reward. In addition, we have a traffic light system for behaviour and if the children are on the star at the end of the day, they will receive a raffle ticket. This allows us to encourage the students to engage in their learning and reward those who are participating and show a positive learning attitude.  

Greater Depth 

To support our Greater Depth children (those working above the expected level), we always try to challenge them within lessons with the work set and our level of questioning.

In Year 6, some of our Greater Depth (GD) children were involved in a Maths Challenge online, where they had to answer a range of difficult problems using their mathematical knowledge and understanding of many different concepts. They enjoyed this, as it made them think ‘out of the box’.

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