Year 5 & 6
Welcome to Year 5 and 6. Your child will be in one of three classes-Cadbury Class, Irwin Class or Shakespeare Class. Below you will find lots of information to support your child's learning journey this year.
2025 / 2026 Academic Year
Rock Kidz Children dressed up as rock stars of the future, practised their moves to an inspirational, Christian song called 'Don't Quit'. Year 5/6 won battle of the year groups.
Commando Joes - 'Be like Ranulph Fiennes.' Children have completed three missions that have concentrated on using teamwork to be record breakers, preservers and rescuers - successfully.
Here are some of the activities that we’ve done since the start of school.
Flamenco, drumming, focus on Germany - crafting, dancing and researching Germany.
On 2nd December, we appreciated a thought-provoking visit to the National Arboretum in Staffordshire, following in the steps of our Royals. In preparation of our forthcoming area of learning of World War 2, we paused for thought at several memorials to those affected by war, such as the Women's Land Army, The Falklands conflict and the Paratroopers, culminating in the poignant Shot at Dawn memorial. The children enjoyed the land train tour of the entire site.
Forget Britain's got Talent, we have St Mary's Got Talent! Just before Christmas, over 20 acts wowed the audience with a wide variety of shows including: musical theatre, tabletop magic, football skills and original compositions. Everyone enjoyed themselves - both the audience and participants. Can't wait for the next one! Baffled, I was!
On 6th January 2026 Shakespeare class enjoyed their hip-hop dancing!
A great lunchtime at Year 5/6 Chess Club yesterday on 7th January 2026! Lots of focused thinking and impressive strategic play!
On 12th January, some of Years 5/6 have been busy making the tallest tower possible from a newspaper and tape.
The winners were!
Year 5/6 enjoying taking part in Minecraft yoga.
On 12th January, the Year 5's took part in an engaging Healthy and Unhealthy workshop, which included a range of activities and discussions. The children learned about making positive choices for their wellbeing and really enjoyed taking part.
On 13th January, Shakespeare class were hard at work constructing bridges!
Spring 2025 in Year 5/6
SATs Meeting 4/2/25
Design Technology. Kites
Year 5/6 have really enjoyed looking at and finding out about the skills and techniques on how to make a kite. Over the last few weeks they have looked at different designs and patterns; practised joins; tested to see if their model kites worked and created their own designs.
Do children access too much screen time?
During English lessons we have been debating whether children are able to access too much screen time or not. We have been looking at balanced arguments and have planned and written our own, surrounding topics such as: sweet consumption, walking to school and the use of mobile phones for children. We were lucky enough to interview two guests who gave very opposing views regarding children and screen time.
Computing in Years 5/6
We have been creating Vector pictures in computing. We have looked at changing the dimensions of the shapes, the colour and the layering shapes. We challenged ourselves to make Vector animals using only two shapes.
Computing
Cityscapes
Looking at buildings and different media, has been the focus in Art this term. We had great fun at looking at cities and trying to copy the lines that were produced by the buildings, in pen. We then chose a single object to bring alive in colour - just one colour. Here are our results. We hope you like them.
Science - Forces
This term we have been finding out about how important forces are in our lives. We have been investigating friction, air resistance, water resistance as well as looking at the workings of cogs and levers. We planned and carried out various experiments to further our understanding.
Maths in Hinckley Town Centre
Some Year Five children were thinking about maths and how the subject came into all areas of Hinckley. We walked through the centre of Hinckley looking for evidence of maths around us. We found lots of examples from numbers and 3D shapes to percentages and money. Our favourite task was to think about how to spend one pound. We had great fun spending our money and discovered that maths was indeed all around us!
The Vikings
As part of our history topic, children had the opportunity to act of the Viking raid on Lindisfarne, 8th June 793. The Vikings raided villages and the monestry and stole gold and jewels. Many people died and the Vikings left victorious!
Year 5/6 had the fantastic opportunity to watch NSWLC performance of James and the Giant Peach. Roald Dahl's classic children's masterpiece was brought to life on stage by the talented drama department of the college. Everyone who went thoroughly enjoyed it! Hopefully we will be invited again next year.
Autumn 2024 in Years 5/6
We have had a great start to the year so far. in History, we have been learning about The Tudors and what life was like during The Battle of Bosworth. This learning was furthered by a visit to the battle site itself with all children taking part in opportunities such as becoming a detective, digging for artefacts and re-enacting the war of the Roses with a march over the battle site.
Bosworth Battlefield Visit
Typography
In Years 5/6 we have been looking at typography and how the placing of print on a page is important. Studying different fonts and sizing of letters has been our focus for the work that we have been producing this term.
Typography
Music
We have spent time looking at pitch, reading and creating graphic scores, following a rhythm and recognising different types of notes.
Computing
Children have been learning how computers send messages to each other through a network. The children sent 'packets' via the routers (which were the children) from one machine to another. The children were only allowed to hold one 'packet' at a time.
Commando Joe's
Year 5/6 were visited by two commandos who showed the children how to organise and deliver missions to younger members of the school during break and lunch times. Children have now been invited to apply to become a Junior Joe.
