Welcome to Silver Birch Class

Welcome to our class page!  Year 5 and 6 have made a great start to their year in Silver Birch and have impressed me with their brilliant attitudes to learning and their willingness to embrace the new responsibilities they have been assigned. 

As we don't have set PE days, your PE kit will need to be in school every day from the start of term, so please make sure you have this ready and named! It would be a good idea to take this home on a Friday to wash and bring back in for the following Monday. 

A reminder please that children should not be bringing rucksacks in to school as we simply don't have space in the cloakroom and this is causing a trip hazard. Please ensure that PE kits are in a drawstring bag and that book bags are used to ensure that children have enough space to safely hang their belongings in our small school! 

We have been very busy this half-term, travelling to Winchester to take part in an eco-conference, taking part in our first sports tournament of the year at Amery and tackling lots of challenging learning! 

Next half-term, in History, we will travel forward in time from the Romans to the Vikings, deciding if the Vikings are really the vicious invaders they are often made out to be. In Maths we will start by focusing on multiplication and division, before moving on to Fractions. In Science, we will continue along the theme of biology and begin to look at the classification of animals, before moving on to look at the ways in which animals have adapted to their changing environments. 

Don't forget to keep your Mental Maths skills sharp on TTRS or Hit The Button. I would also like you to review the Year 5/6 spelling list at the top of the page and see which spellings you need to practice.

Homework will be set on a Friday and will be due in on the following Wednesday. This consists of weekly spellings to practice daily, times tables practice, daily reading and a 30 minute activity once a week. I will usually set these on PurpleMash and TT rockstars, so please let me know if you need log in reminders for these!  Spellings will be tested on a Friday each week. 

For the week commencing 21/10/2024 there will be no new spellings. Please consolidate the spellings that you have covered this half-term and spend some time practicing ones you are still finding tricky! 

If there are any questions please just ask! 

Miss Bunce