Welcome to the Junior’s Class Page!

We have a mixed age class with pupils from Year 3 to Year 6, who are taught by Miss Duxbury with the help of Mrs Habib and Mrs Southern. 

History- Crime and punishment…

This unit will develop their chronological knowledge beyond 1066 through studying this aspect of social history. The children will find out about the legacy of the Roman justice system and crime and punishment through the Anglo-Saxon, Tudor and Victorian periods. They will also deepen their historical awareness and understanding of how our past is constructed through studying the famous highwayman Dick Turpin. The final lesson allows the children to reflect upon and evaluate what they have learnt in this unit, as well as comparing modern day crime prevention and detection methods with those from the past.

Science

LKS2- Electricity

Children will identify common appliances that run on battery and mains electricity, and name some appliances that do the same job but are operated manually. They will learn the names and functions of simple electrical components including batteries, bulbs, buzzers, wires and switches. They will understand the need for a complete loop for a bulb to light or a buzzer to buzz, and will construct simple circuits to light a bulb and make a buzzer buzz. They will then insert a switch into the circuit to turn the bulb/buzzer on and off.

Working Scientifically, children will raise questions related to electrical insulation and conductivity. They will plan and carry out investigations, make predictions, record results in appropriate ways and draw conclusions.

UKS2- Electricity

Children will work towards answering the Quest question, ‘How can we fix a broken circuit?’ They will recognise and use accepted scientific symbols in circuit diagrams. They will learn that altering the brightness of bulbs and the volume of a buzzer can be achieved in different ways, including changing the number of components, battery voltage, or the properties of the wires in the circuits.

Working Scientifically, children will have the opportunity to choose to investigate altering the brightness of bulbs and the volume of a buzzer in different ways, possibly including changing the number and/or type of components, battery voltage, or the properties of the wires in the circuits. They will predict outcomes relating to the arrangement in electrical circuits and record their results.

This unit builds on Year 4 Electricity.

Homework

Children will receive English and maths homework every Friday, this is to be completed for the following Monday. Homework is always based on work children have been doing in school and set to suit their abilities. If something is sent home that a pupil needs more help with, please inform us on the Monday morning so we can do this.

Spellings and Times Tables

Spellings and times tables are set on Wednesday and the children have their test on the following Wednesday. Children write their spellings in their book and have time to practice in school during the week. They are given times table sheets (with times tables up to 12×) at the beginning of the year. They are to use this to practice at home. While children are given time to practice in school it is important they take the time to practice at home too.

At Home Math Resources/Textbooks 

At home maths- these links allow you to access maths activities and text books for the different year group levels using your active learn login details. 

https://preview.pearsonactivelearn.com/PowerMathsYear3 https://preview.pearsonactivelearn.com/PowerMathsYear4 https://preview.pearsonactivelearn.com/PowerMathsYear5 https://preview.pearsonactivelearn.com/PowerMathsYear6

Meet the class!

Sewing

The children have worked incredibly hard designing and creating their own purses/cases. They looked at lots of examples and thought carefully about their designs. 

Mental Health Day

Mental health is all about the thoughts people are having, how they are feeling because of these thoughts and how these thoughts and feelings are affecting their actions and behaviour.

Sometimes people have happy, comfortable thoughts and feelings. Sometimes, people have thoughts and feelings that don’t feel so good and might feel upsetting or uncomfortable.

Everyone’s experience of mental health is different as no two people are the same.

We explored how children can identify the mood/emotions they are feeling and then be able to seek help or help themselves to boost their moods. We looked at positive affirmations and being kind to ourselves and why we may feel anxiety and how to deal with this.

Mood boosters:

www.bbc.co.uk/teach/moodboosters

Sorting shapes

LKS2 have been exploring the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. They have then looked at sorting them into diagrams based on their properties. 

Types of change

UKS2 have been exploring key terms in science, such as: evaporation, filtration, solution, mixture. They have then carried out practical experiments to test these methods and help secure their understand.

For evaporation they mixed caster sugar, brown sugar and icing sugar in with water and then observed what happened when the water evaporated.

Then they were given a mixed bag of raisins, caster sugar and cinnamon and told they had to explore how to separate the three. They used a sieve to extract the larger raisins, and filter paper to extract the cinnamon and then left the solution to evaporate to get the sugar back. We did note that smaller parts of cinnamon were able to pass through the filter paper, slightly discolouring the water. 

Ottoline and The Yellow Cat- Role play

The children worked in pairs to act out the scene where Ottoline doesn't have time to listen to or work with Mr Munroe. They thought about how both characters were feeling and why, then acted out the scene to demonstrate their understanding. 

Salamander Dream- Freeze frames

The children focused on the chapter where Hailey finds out Salamander had a birthday party and didn't invite her. They created freeze frames to show how the characters were feeling as the scene progressed and then explained what they were feeling at key moments when they showed their scenes.