Red Kite - Y5/6

Welcome to Red Kite!

We are a year 5/6 class and you will find us in the second classroom from the main entrance, in the KS2 corridor.

Miss Imogen Browne, Red Kite Teacher

Mrs Pascha McGrath, Teaching Assistant

Mr Rob Payton, Teaching Assistant

Mrs Carly Fisher, Teaching Assistant

Mrs Caroline Smith, Teaching Assistant

Our teacher is Miss Browne.

Our TAs are: Mrs Fisher, Mrs McGrath, Mr Payton and Mrs Smith.

If you have any questions, you can email the teacher at FPSredkite@palladianacademytrust.com

Year 5 Pencelli Meeting to parents PPT - please see below in the documents. 

Term 3:

Term 3 is going to be another fantastic term. In History, the children will be researching the question ‘What did the Greeks ever do for us?’. The children were dive into the Greek world, learning about Greek beliefs, how ancient Greece was governed and how Greek philosophers influence us today. In Science, we will be following Darwin’s footsteps; learning about natural selection, adaptation, inheritance and evolution. In Art, we will be looking at architecture and observational drawings. Linking to Art, Design and Technology will be creating structures and bridges. For English, the children will be reading the non-fiction text, ‘Survivors’ and creating a journalistic piece of writing. In Maths, the children will be continuing with multiplication and division, fractions, decimals, area/perimeter/volume and percentages.

Term 2:

An amazing, busy term! In Science, we continued to explore the different types of forces and used our knowledge to conduct more experiments. The children looked at levers, pulleys and gears; creating a wind powered pulley system to lift a paper cup. Our English lessons featured the wonderful story ‘The Explorers’ by Katherine Rundell. Our genre of writing was journey narrative. For Art, children used mixed media to create self-portraits. In Geography this term, explored the question ‘Why does population change?’. DT was really exciting! The children designed and created their own pop-up books, aimed at year 1 children!

Here is a snippet of our science lesson (wind-powered pulleys):

Here are some of our 'changing faces' portraits. The children had to experiment with materials and techniques; representing an emotion or atmosphere. Can you guess what mood they are trying to portray in these portraits?

CHRISTMAS JUMPER DAY & CHRISTMAS PARTY!

Term 1:

Welcome back to all the children in Red Kite class. This is the first term of a fantastic and busy year! The children will be learning all about Vikings, during our history lessons, focusing on the topic question ‘Were the Vikings raiders, traders or something else?’ Over the next 2 terms, our science focus will be ‘forces and magnets’.

During the third week, the year 6’s will be away on their residential for a week and the year 5’s will take part in a project.

Our book this term will be ‘The Viking Boy’, linking to our history topic. The final write will be an informal letter. We will focus on the grammar features of brackets, colons and semi-colons.

Our maths this term will be around the place value of numbers up to 10,000,000.

Towards the end of term 1, we are looking forward to attending the Bath Literacy Festival, to see the author Katherine Rundell!

                                                    Year 6 SATs Information