Welcome to Brecon Class! 

Welcome to Brecon class where years 4, 5 and 6 learn together. Our class is taught by two teachers: Mrs Grinnell and Mrs Gomersall and we are supported by our amazing teaching assistants. In our classroom, we work hard, support one another and celebrate each other’s successes.

We strive to provide as many opportunities for our KS2 children as possible. We are actively involved in local sporting tournaments and festivals and have a weekly session with our sports coach too. This term the children are also involved in an inter-school times table championship, sporting events run by our Year 6 Bronze Ambassadors and they can also attend Stop Motion lunchtime club if they wish.

Please take a look at our photographs to see what else we get up to!

In history, we will be learning about the Anglo Saxons. We will be looking at when and why the Angles, Saxon and Jute tribes came to Britain. We will also learn about where they settled and what clues they left behind both in place names and archaeology. We will gain a better understanding of life in Britain at this time and will explore some Anglo Saxon activities in our forest school area.

Our English lessons will be based on the books, ‘Plastic Planet’ and ‘Greta’s Story’. The children will learn about the problems caused by plastic pollution alongside Greta Thunberg’s campaign to slow down climate change. We will learn about cohesion in writing – synonyms, conjunctions and  adverbials, as well as using parenthesis to add extra information or explain technical terms.

Maths will be taught in line with the National Curriculum expectations for Years 4, 5 and 6. A particular focus for Year 4s will be on their times tables. This term, the children will be learning to recognise and calculate with decimal numbers (to include money for Year 4).  Years 5 & 6 will also learn to use percentages. Towards Easter, we will be learning about length, perimeter and area (as well as volume for Years 5 & 6). In addition to a daily Maths lesson, the children also keep their calculating skills up-to-date during daily morning Maths and times tables challenges.

In Science, we will learn how to separate different mixtures. This will involve using magnets, evaporation, flotation and filtering. We will finish by designing our own human separating machine to separate out a number of different materials.

This half term we will be improving our understanding of  painting techniques to create our art work. We will learn about shade and tone and how to use this knowledge to make the objects we are painting look 3D; we will also look at different painting techniques. We will create a piece of still life art to put into practise everything we learn.

We are learning about computational thinking in computing this term. This gives us a better understanding about how computers work, how to break down instructions and how we can instruct computers effectively to solve problems.

In RE, we will be answering the question: Why do Christians call the day Jesus dies ‘Good Friday’? We will look at the events of Holy Week and how they fit into the big story of the bible. We will consider each event from Mary’s point of view, writing in character before being able to explain why the day is called ‘Good Friday’.

PSHCE. Year 5 and 6 will be learning about ways to be a good citizen. Children will study the environmental impact of food production, what their rights are alongside the responsibilities that we all share as global citizens.

On Mondays, Mr Watkins, our sports coach, will be teaching gymnastics. The children will be working individually and in small groups to develop routines and sequences. On Fridays, Mrs Gomersall will be teaching athletics. We will be developing our techniques in running, throwing and jumping.

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