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 are starting the year writing a narrative based on the film 'One Small Step'.

We love reading in Lion class! Our class novel at the moment is The Final Year. 

In Science we are learning about properties of materials. 

Our Geography topic tin Autumn is all about what life is like in the Alps. 

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

In R.E children will explore the question what do religions say to us when life gets hard?

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 creativity and are enjoying creating their own rules for seated volleyball.

Children are learning how to say, recognise and read about activities and time in French and in music, children are exploring the link between music and technology. Children will be learning about computer systems and networks in computing.

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