WILLOW CLASS

Welcome to Willow Class

The wonderful Year 5 and 6 children in Willow Class are taught by

Mrs Pontet, ably assisted by Mrs Jackson, Mrs Larkins and Mrs Weliwita.

Sports Day fun

Hard labour in a Victorian prison!

Amazing drumming workshop as part of Wargrave Festival

The Year 6's had to present their business ideas to the "Dragons".

Practising for sports day

Summer 2022

We have so much to look forward to this term. Crime and Punishment is our history focus and our key concepts are Grace, Justice and Power. We will be exploring how the law, legal system and punishments have changed over the past 2000 years from the Romans to present day. Lots of our English work will focus on crime as we will be studying the famous poem "The Highwayman" and reading the novel "Holes" - both which will make us question the idea of whether the punishment always fits the crime!

In science we will develop our understanding of the physics topic 'light' and then learn about human development. Portraiture will be our focus in art and in music we will be learning about hip-hop. We will also be applying our programming skills to create sounds and melodies in Computing and thinking about whether saints are encouraging role models in RE discussions.

Fingers crossed the weather will be good, as in PE lessons we'll be over on the field developing our athletic skills and playing some team games including rounders.

And don't forget Bushcraft and PGL too!

So much to fit in - I can't wait!

Don't forget to bring a reading book to school everyday.

You always need your pencil case with 'Super Six', (Handwriting pen, pencil, rubber, sharpener, ruler and glue stick) all named, a refillable water bottle, a reading book and a positive attitude.

P.E. is on Mondays and Thursdays, so please wear your school PE kit on these days.

Useful dates:

Monday 6th June - Back to school

Thursday 16th June - Festival of Drums (Wargrave Festival)

Thursday 23rd June - Junior Sports Day

27th June - 1st July - Year 6 to Treygoyd PGL

4th July - Year 5 Bushcraft Day

4th - 6th July - Year 6 Bikeability

Friday 15th July - School disco

Tuesday 19th July - Year 6 Leaver's service at St Mary's Church

Wednesday 20th July - School term ends at 1.30pm

Ideas for reading books

Practise your times tables with TT Rockstars

Our Reading Den

Year 6 SATs and PGL information

May 2022

Our Jubilee tea party celebrations

Thanks to Mr Miller for teaching us about aerodynamics

We were delighted to invite our parents into school to join us in our Class Collective Worship about 'Peace'.

Some of Willow Class were very naughty this week!

Our wonderful, amazing, fabulous Year 6s celebrating the end of SATs

Making light-shades using opaque, translucent and transparent materials.

April 2022

Celebrating Easter at St Mary's Church

Weeding our allotment ready for planting!

March 2022

STEM Week 2022

The Science Fair

Making silly putty

Learning about motorbike mechanics

Lego Challenge with Dr Stratful

Inter-house Engineering Challenge

Designing buggies and playing badminton

Badminton skills and responding to 'Hoe Down' by American Composer Aaron Copeland.

World Book Day fun!

We spent the day studying the book "Mother Earth is Weeping" by Claire Donald and writing responses to the environmental themes of the story. The poems, descriptive writing and art work were amazing.

Our Phase 2 book swap was very successful and we all enjoyed reading a new book that has been recycled from one of our classmates.

And of course, we loved dressing up as some of favourite books characters: Paddington, Alex Rider, Dennis the Menace, Voldemort and the Dork Diary girls among others.