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Welcome to Falcons 2025/26
We have had a great start to the Spring term. The children seem to have settled in extremely well and are working hard. Until half term our Humanities topic will be How places are different.We will be focusing on the United Kingdom, Spain, Canad and Ethiopia. Our class book is The Fastest Boy in the World by Elizabeth Laird and is set in Ethiopia.
Weekly Homework Expectations for Falcon's children.
Read 3 x weekly (more is always encouraged and will earn house points!) – Reading diaries need to be signed to earn 10 minutes of Golden Time.
TT Rockstars – The expectation is either to complete 3 x 3 minute sessions or 9 x 1 minute sessions over the course of the week. The children should use Studio, to complete these sessions This will earn them a further 10 minutes of Golden Time.
Reading Diaries and TT Rockstars sessions will be checked on Friday mornings.
Topic Homework will be set during the first week of each half term. The Topic home sheet can be accessed via the link below.
English
We will be reading our new class text The fastest Boy in the World by Elizabeth Laird.. This book ties in nicely with our Humanities topic- How places are different. We will also be writing an information text on Ethiopia and a letter to the author.
Maths
In this half-term, we will be focusing on multiplication and division, area and perimeter and fractions.
Science
Year 5 : Earth and Space
Year 4: Animals including Humans
Geography
How places are different.
PHSE
Economic Well Being
RE
Judaism
Computing
E-safety and Computational Thinking
PE
Swimming / Invasion games
