Welcome to
Year 5/6
Mr Cripwell
Mrs Williams
Mrs Suter
Mr Lydon
Mrs Beasley
Responsibilities
Monitors / buddies / role models
 Decision making
 Investigations
 Self evaluation
 Homework
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Independence
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Children are expected to be responsible for:
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Having the correct equipment for each lesson.
Making time to do homework and hand in on time.
Changing their own reading books.
Listening, thinking & learning.
Making good choices.
Presentation of work.
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These expectations help the children to prepare for
the move to secondary school.
Homework
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Given out on Thursday; back in on Tuesday.
Learning Log – more in-depth task based on
Literacy, Science, Topic, RE…
Maths – in separate folder.
Homework club – Thursday lunchtimes.
Reading book lists: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum.
Spellings – written in diaries at the start of week,
tested at the end of the week. Spellings also put
on school website.
P.E. kit in a drawstring bag
White t-shirt
Sweatshirt or
tracksuit top
Navy shorts/skirt
with P.E. pants
Tracksuit/jogging
bottoms
Plain shorts when warm
Plimsolls — for indoors
Trainers — for outdoors
Gloves and hats are recommended in winter.
Normal school uniform such as trousers / shorts /
skirts / jumpers / cardigans / school polo-shirt
are NOT suitable as P.E. kit!
Other equipment
Art apron (named)
 Book bag
 Blue pens, pencil, whiteboard pens
 30cm ruler (not a bendy one!)
 A pencil case that fits into their tray.
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Creative Curriculum
Topic-based learning
Macbeth – Hero or Villain?
Literacy
• Re-enact key scenes
from the play.
• Script-writing.
• Poetry.
• Persuasive letters.
PE
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Athletics.
Dance to music
from Macbeth.
Music
• Singing songs
from Macbeth.
Computing
• We are Web
Developers.
PSHE / RE
• Materialism and
greed.
• Superstitions of
the past.
• Religious values.
Art
Science
• Making props
• e.g. masks, swords • Mixtures and
solutions.
and shields…
Holiday Homework
Use websites or books to help you research
about William Shakespeare.
Make a detailed, well-presented poster.
His life
 Find 10 fascinating facts about his life; who he
was; why he is still famous today…
His plays
 You may want to write about…
 What type of plays he wrote.
 Name four famous characters and identify the
plays they were in.