Lion – Year 6 Miss Wheeldon, Mrs Powdrill and Miss Chapman

Welcome to Lion Class 2024-2025!

We are a mixed year 5/6 class full of fabulous learners who try our best every day. Our class teachers are Miss Wheeldon and Mrs Powdrill who are supported by Miss Chapman as teaching assistant.

In maths, we follow the White Rose scheme and have a mixture of practical, active and written lessons.  At Brockley Primary School we know that the basic skills of mathematics are vital for the life opportunities of our children. In year 5 and 6 we encourage our children to think mathematically, enabling them to reason, solve problems and to confidentially use mathematical language.  We want our children to be able to recognise the importance of maths in everyday life, in science and technology, financial literacy and employment and to use their mathematical skills in a range of everyday contexts. We use a range of resources to aid our learning.

In English we follow the Write Stuff by Jane Consadine. Children will be writing a narrative based on 'Gorilla' by Anthony Browne and a postcard based on Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Children will be learning about relative clauses and parenthesis to support their writing.

We love reading in Lion class! Our class novel at the moment is The Final Year before we move on to Skellig.

In Science we are learning about light. 

Our Geography topic this Spring is all about how population changes. 

Our value in PSHE is Money Matters. Children will discuss, listen and share their thoughts with the class around this valuable topics.

In R.E children will explore the question what difference does it make to believe in ahimsa (harmlessness), grace and/or Ummah (community)?

In P.E, we follow the Real PE scheme, putting children at the heart of the learning. Real PE is a unique, child centred approach that includes, challenges and support EVERY child. This term, children will focus on stance and footwork.

Children are learning how to say, recognise and read about weather and directions in French and in music, children are exploring creative composition. Children will be learning about video production in computing. In Art, children will explore different artists who use paint and mixed media.

There is a lot of exciting learning coming up in Lion class and I will update as we go.