Welcome to the Ocean Class webpage

Year group: Year 5 and 6

Teacher: Miss Amplett

Teaching assistant: Mrs Foxall

Texts this term

Class text:

Guided reading text:

Talk for Writing

Fiction

Focus – Openings and endings

Model text – Alien Landing

Non-Fiction

Focus - Discussion

Model text – Do aliens exist?

Class information

PE

PE will be on a Monday. Children should come to school in their PE kit on their PE day.

Drinks & Snacks

Please ensure that your child brings a drink of water (not fruit drinks or squash) to school each day. These are accessible to children throughout the day. Children may also bring a snack for their morning break.

Homework

Homework will be set on a Monday and will be bought home in your child’s homework book. This will consist of a piece of English and a piece of Maths homework.

In addition to this, please ensure children have regular practice in areas such as spelling and times tables where automaticity will benefit your child.

• Times Tables Rockstars
• Spelling Shed
• Reading

Reading

It is extremely important for your child to read regularly at home. This not only benefits their understanding of a variety of texts but is a ticket to learning new knowledge, enabling an imagination and having a range of ideas that can be transferred into writing.

To support your child at home with their reading you could use lots of different questioning techniques. Asking your child to repeat/ summarise what they have read or picking specific events in the book to talk about will help you to understand what they have learnt. You can find lots of example questions to ask your child below.

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