Welcome to Kingfishers' Class Page!
Welcome to the class page for Kingfishers, the Year 5 and Year 6 class at Southery Academy.
In Kingfishers, we like to work as hard as we can and learn as much as we can! We enjoy a challenge and like to express ourselves in different ways. We always enjoy participating in competitions and challenges. Particularly, striving for the different reading badges, competing in events and challenging each other on Times Tables Rockstars.
I have been busy remapping our Year 5 and Year 6 curriculum and there are some really exciting things to come! From The Victorian Era to The World Wars and from Australia to Western African artwork, we truly follow our Academy aim of being exposed to a broad and balanced curriculum. We enjoy our carefully planned PE lessons each Wednesday and we also take part in Swimming lessons towards the end of the Summer term, in order to reach our goals. We love to learn about the wider community around us and we are keen to develop our understanding some transferable key skills.
We complete weekly home learning tasks that are beneficial and relevant to our learning in class, this includes our weekly spellings. In Kingfishers, we have a competitive and progressive 'can do' attitude. We adopt a growth mindset and we believe that everything is achievable in school and beyond when we try our absolute best.
Meet the Team
Mr S Bothamley - Class Teacher
Mrs N Bradney – Teaching Assistant
SATs
In the Spring of each year, Year 6 will complete their SATs. We plan to prepare the children to be confident and to take these tests in their stride. There will be a weekly after-school club for children who wish to practise specific skills and techniques ready for these tests.
Home learning
We promote the sense of enjoyment across our school community and this extends to home learning too. Any home learning is purposeful and relevant. We expect regular reading to be done, as well as times-table practice and spellings to be done throughout the week.
Below, you can find some useful documents such as our Weekly Timetable and Curriculum Map as well as some links to some helpful sites (children will have these logins) and some useful resources for both parents and children to use. Please also take a look at the left-hand side for each half-term's Medium Term Plan and Knowledge Organisers. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via email, Class Dojo or the school office.
Many thanks,
Mr. Bothamley
Kingfishers Y5/6 Class Teacher
PE Lead
https://ebooks.collinsopenpage.com/
https://mathsbot.com/manipulativeMenu
http://www.timestables.me.uk/printable-pdf-quiz-generator.htm