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Class 4

Welcome to Class 4

A taste of class 4

 

Class 4

Welcome to the Autumn Term - Year 5 and 6

 

1st September 2025

Class 4 – Welcome to the New School Year 2025

Dear Parents and Carers

I hope you are all well and have had a wonderful summer. We are looking forward to hearing all of the children’s news from the holidays and have lots of exciting plans in place for everyone to enjoy.

Class Four are taught by Mrs Monteverde (Monday) and Mrs Thornton (Tuesday-Friday).  We also have French lessons with Mme Walsh on Wednesdays and Guitar with Mrs Makinson on Fridays.

Following our very exciting discovery of ‘Wainwright’s Rucksack’, and all his belongings, during discovery day, this term our topic will be ‘Explorers and The Lake District’. We will be learning about our amazing local area and famous explorers who have travelled far and wide!  Please see the separate letter, coming soon, about the exciting trip we will be going on in a few weeks to Catbells! We have also been lucky enough to receive tickets once again to the Kendal Mountain Festival later in the term, which is always very exciting and inspirational.

In Science, we will be learning about the ‘Living things and their habitats’ and ‘Earth and Space’.  We will be working on our explanations and understanding of enquiry style questions.

Spelling – New spellings for this term are now on our new Google Classroom page and will soon be available on our class web page and Spelling Shed. 

Please add your child to the new Google Classroom page when you log in.

Within our weekly spelling work we will start with a group of 10 spellings and add 5 new spellings each week to the same list in order to further consolidate the learning.  Weekly spellings should be practised at home regularly.

Guided reading – We will be starting the term with an exciting book, linked to our class topic, entitled ‘Shackleton’s Journey’.  The children will be given homework based on the text which will usually include some reading to do at home as well.  The children will also be reading ‘When the Mountain’s Roared’, by Jess Butterworth, with Mrs Monteverde on Mondays. Children are also expected to read daily at home from their own chosen text and log their reading on Boom Reader (link available on Google Classroom).  Later on in the term we will also be reading a wonderful Michael Morpurgo text, ‘King of the Cloud Forests’.

Maths – Please continue to help your child learn all of their times tables. The children can also practise these using ‘Times Table Rockstars’ (the fun games website school subscribes to; each child has a log in for this). They will have a class tables test each Friday alongside a Big Maths test – the ‘Learn It’s’ are based on the previous week’s test.

Maths homework will continue to be set on Google Classroom on a Monday to be completed for the following Monday and submitted online.

This term, PE will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays with Gymnastics at Penrith Leisure centre starting on Thursday 11th September and each Thursday afternoon following that during this half term.  Please remember your child should attend school in their school PE kit on these days. Please also ensure they also have some warmer PE layers in their bag as well as spare socks in case of changeable weather. On Thursday 4th September we will be doing PE in school so please wear your PE kit this Thursday as well.

Homework – Homework will be available on Google Classroom and should be submitted back there every week. Maths and guided reading homework will be uploaded weekly and should be completed and returned before the following week.

Equipment – please ensure your child brings a water bottle every Monday. Water bottles should be approximately 500ml in size and unbranded.  Water bottles will stay in school during the week and the children will bring them home on Fridays. 

The children will also need their coat, book bag/school bag, indoor shoes, trainers, waterproof over-trousers and wellies in school each day.  No pencil cases will be needed as the children will have their own pen pack in school. The children will be allocated a numbered school guitar and should bring their school guitar on each Friday. They will bring it home to use and practise at home throughout the week. Please ensure guitars are kept in a safe place at home. 

As always please ensure all clothing, belongings and shoes are clearly labelled. 

We are all looking forward to seeing you and having an exciting term at school.

Yours sincerely

Mrs Thornton and Mrs Monteverde

Spellings Year 5 and 6

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