Welcome to Mercury Class Webpage

Teacher: Miss Thorne

In Mercury class we value respect: respecting ourselves first and foremost, taking pride in our work, and showing respect for others. Together we will strive to become better and do our best, using our growth mind-sets to face any challenges. We are proud of how our classroom is a diverse and respectful place to learn. 

Things to remember:

- PE is on Thursdays so please make sure you come to school in your active wear clothes

- Ensure to bring your school water bottle (filled and ready to go for the day). 

- To bring your reading record and book to school each day and of course, take them home each evening.

- Read at home every day for at least 10 minutes. 

- Practise your Timestables - TTRS is great fun! 

-Hit the Button is a great Maths Timestable game to play for FREE

-Spelling Shed to complete activities

-Spelling and Arithmetic homework to complete each week

English

In Writing lessons this term, we will be looking at writing our own non-chronological report and persuasive letter. We will be covering skills such as fronted adverbials, relative clauses, how to shift formality and parenthesis. We will also be recapping skills from previous years such as: expanded noun phrases and conjunctions to write compound and complex sentences.

We will be:

• Planning, drafting, evaluating, editing and proof reading.
• Composition – apply vocabulary, grammar and punctuation.
• Composition – structuring and organising texts.
• Transcription – spelling/handwriting.

In Reading, we will be practicing use of the VIPERS skills which help the children to read. VIPERS= Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explain, Retrieve and Summarise. We will be focusing on developing one skill each week until we are confident using all of them.

This is our class book this term.

The Boy at the back of the class 

Spelling

We focus on the Year 5 and 6 statutory spellings.

Accommodate, accompany, according, achieve, aggressive, amateur, ancient, apparent, appreciate, attached, available, average, awkward, bargain, bruise, category, cemetery, community, communicate, definite, desperate, determined, develop, forty, frequently, government, neighbour, opportunity, rhyme, soldier, stomach, variety, vegetable, yacht. We encourage children to work on the key spellings and any they are finding tricky- which they can retrieve from their English writing or any other books. All the practise they do at home will help with their work. 

Maths

We use the White Rose programme which is a mastery approach encouraging children to apply their skills via concrete, pictorial and abstract methods. To give children time to consolidate their Maths skills, they will also practice their arithmetic skills and times table skills every week, children are given arithmetic homework each week and work on the skills in class. This half-term we are working on Fractions, decimals and percentages.

Science

Our science topics this year will be:

• Properties and changes of materials
• Space
• Living things and their habitats
• Animals including humans
• Forces

The children will work scientifically by:

• Planning and conducting investigations
• Making predictions
• Record their results
• Evaluating their findings

Physical Education (PE)

In PE this half-term our Units and Focus skills are Dance (Making Connections) and Basketball (Communicating Clearly).

In the summer term we will be going swimming lessons which the children are excited for. 

Useful links

Spelling Shed

Spelling Shed - Spelling Shed - The Science of Spelling

Google Classroom

google classroom - Search

Hit the Button (For timestables and Maths practice)

Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds

Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS)

Times Tables Rock Stars – Times Tables Rock Stars

Launchpad

Launchpad - King's Ford Academy