Welcome to our fantastic class for the oldest pupils in school!
A bit about us…
Class 4 is our upper Key Stage 2 class for Year 5 & 6 pupils. Our class teacher is Mr Vincent and he is supported by Ms Kitching. As a team, they are constantly keeping their pupils on their toes, stretching and challenging their learning, helping them to collaborate with each other, encouraging them in their strengths and supporting each pupil as they demonstrate determination, perseverance and resilience, in order to make the very best of themselves.
Whilst we work hard in Year 5 and 6, be prepared for lots of fun and to take part in lots of sports! We love sports in Class 4 and take part in local sporting leagues, where we learn new skills and how to work as part of a team!
Year 6
Year 6 is an incredibly important year, giving children the opportunity to bring together all of their prior learning in preparation to achieve the highest academic level possible ready to embark upon the next step at secondary school. It is also the year that pupils take parts in SATs (Statutory Assessment Tests) in Reading, Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling and Maths. These take part annually in the month of May.
To find out more about our curriculum, you can read our curriculum over view, view our Long Term plans below, or read the whole-school curriculum offer by clicking here.
Things you should know:
*Each child is given a reading book to read at home. Children will be listened to reading during shared reading sessions, as well as by different adults in school. Reading at home is expected and encouraged; we aim for at least 3 times a week as this will really help your children’s progress.
*Your child will bring home 10 spellings each week to learn for a spelling test on Friday.
*One of our key focuses in numeracy is times tables, ensuring children are ready for the multiplication check in year 4. Every child, from Year 2 onwards, is expected to complete 20 minutes of multiplication practise each week on the TTRockstars app.
Class Four Planning Documents
English Long Term Planning
Y5 & Y6 English Cycle A Y5 & Y6 English Cycle B
Foundation Subjects Long Term Planning
Class 4 Cycle A LTP Class 4 Cycle B LTP
What have Class Four been up to?
Saying goodbye to Primary School for Year 6 06.07.23
Year 6 children went for lunch at The Copper Mine with Mr Vincent and Ms Kitching for their leavers meal. The children got to order a drink, main meal and dessert from the menu. It was lovely to spend time with the children, see them chatting and having fun for one of the last times in Primary School. Their manners and behaviour were impeccable. We couldn’t be prouder of our wonderful pupils.
The First Three Weeks (22.09.23)
Class 4 pupils have really risen to the challenge of being the oldest pupils in school, and we are so proud of how they have returned after the summer break. As you all know, Year 6 is a very busy year but our motto is that we work hard and play even harder-especially with our sports! So far this term, we’ve played a Handball festival at Parkside where our second team won their league and our first team came second. We’ve played 2 rounds of Tag Rugby fixtures at Wolsingham and we’ve played our Level 2 Netball competition and came second!
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October in Class 4
Class 4 have been working hard this month-there is never a spare minute in the day and every day is so different! We’ve been learning about the life of the Ancient Greeks in History, dissecting eggs to learn about the different parts in Science and writing and improving diary entries in English! On top of that, we’ve had a visit from Crook Firefighters to remind us about Bonfire Night safety and we took part in our school Harvest celebration at St. Stephen’s church! What a fabulous month!
November and December in Class 4
Wow, time is speeding by! It’s been a whirl of festive preparations, lots of learning and sporting fixtures. Some of our highlights have been our class Christmas party, taking part in our production of ‘Baubles’ and going to Panto. We were incredibly proud of the children who took part in a visit to Willington Care Village to sing Christmas carols for the residents. In DT, we made pop-up books. We chose our younger children as our target audience and used Christmas as our theme.
January 2024
Class 4 have gotten off to an electric start this year and have been enjoying our electricity topic in Science. We’ve been exploring circuits and have really enjoyed the practical side of the topic!
February 2024
This month we’ve been very busy in class. We’ve celebrated LGBT+ History Month, Safer Internet Day and Children’s Mental Health Week. We’ve also had a visit from Chartwell’s Food company, who showed us how to make simple, healthy food which we can all enjoy! The children in Year 6 finished 4th in the local dodgeball league, and we are all working hard in class with the year 6 children now building towards their SATs in May!
For Children’s Mental Health Week, we took part in a competition against the other classes where we had to prepare a healthy 2-course meal. One of our school’s ‘5 Ways to Shine’, is all about the importance of healthy eating. We prepared a chicken stir-fry dish and some healthy raisin biscuits. We loved chopping and putting all the vegetables together. Everyone agreed it looked, smelled and tasted really good.
Continuing with the food theme, we had a visitor from the people who make our school dinners (Chartwell’s Food). They talked to us about the benefits of healthy eating and how important it is to maintain a balanced diet. We talked about the different food groups and the types of food we might expect to find in each. At the end, we were shown how to make a healthy smoothie from fruit juice, strawberries, bananas, spinach and yoghurt. We all had a go at tasting it, even though some of us weren’t keen on the smell at first!
As part of LGBT+ History Month, we created fact files on a significant LGBT+ person. The theme this year was ‘Medicine #UnderTheScope’. So we looked at numerous significant individuals from the world of Science and Medicine. We learnt some amazing facts and produced some very colourful and bright pieces of work. We all know how it important it is to raise awareness around significant LGBT+ individuals to show everyone that anything is possible.
The theme for Safer Internet Day this year was ‘Inspiring Change?’. We talked about the benefits and the dangers which the internet has for all of us before focusing on AI. We had a very interesting class debate around whether we believed AI was a good thing, or a bad thing. We shared all of our ideas and then split the class in half, to argue the reasons for. and against, the use of AI.
March 2024
It’s been such a short half-term, it feels like we’ve packed so much in over the last 5 weeks. We’ve celebrated Careers Week and Science Week. We’ve welcomed the NSPCC into school for a workshop with our class. We’ve also taken part in the Badminton World Cup at Bishop Barrington and celebrated World Book Day. At the end of the month we will be taking part in the Girls’ Football World Cup when we will be trying to win it for the second year in a row! We’ve also got our Holi colour run on the last day of term to celebrate the Hindu festival. In class, we’ve been working on formal letters and play scripts in English, looking at Statistics in Maths, while continuing with our foundation subjects too.
For Science Week, we took part in an investigation exploring whether or not the children with the longest legs run the fastest. We found that it was actual the children with the shortest legs who ran the fastest in our class.
Careers Week was a fantastic opportunity for us all to listen to a variety of professionals about their job, and why they decided to get a job in a certain profession. Everyone who came in to speak to us were very informative and inspirational. We had talks from a sports coach, nurse, hairdresser, police dog handler, teacher and a professional BMX rider who has represented Great Britain!
The NSPCC came in to talk to us about the importance of ‘speaking out to stay safe’. Everyone was really sensible and asked some excellent questions. Everyone was able to name a trusted adult and talk about situations we might find ourselves in which are tricky or might make us feel uncomfortable and upset us.
World Book Day in school was great fun! We came into school wearing something which made us feel happy. We took part in a quiz about the teachers. We had to guess the teacher based on an extract from their favourite book and 3 clues about them! Throughout the day we also took part in, ‘Stop, Drop and Read’. Whenever the bell was rang, we would have to stop whatever it is we were doing, drop everything and pick up our favourite reading book to read. We also had hot chocolate and our amazing reading ambassadors delivered a very informative assembly for us all.
Archived Class Information
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