Autumn 2  2025

Next half term, we will be exploring the world of the Ancient Greeks with our exciting topic: Who Let the Gods Out? Children will explore who the Ancient Greeks were, their amazing myths and legends, and how their ideas still shape our world today — from democracy to the Olympics!

We will kick off the topic with a fun-filled immersion day, where pupils can come to school in costume and take part in themed activities. As well as this, the children will have the opportunity to explore historical artefacts to build their understanding of this time period.

In Art, the children will be getting hands-on with clay to create our own Greek-style pots, inspired by ancient designs. In French, we will be learning how to talk about pets, building vocabulary through speaking, listening, reading and writing activities.

Our learning behaviour is 'Independence'.

Check out our 'Big Picture' below:

Autumn 1 2025

In our first Y5/6 topic, 'Spirit of Adventure', we learnt about the natural world. As scientists, we explored how evolution explains how some species adapt over time to their environment. A visit from Jungle Jonathan, showed the children some animals up close and personal! From this, drawing skills were developed in art, as the children recreated animal pattern and texture, using pencil and oil pastels.

In DT, the children continued to develop their sewing skills, using a range of sewing stiches to produce their own bag, designed by themselves with a purpose in mind. On top of this, we produced a range of writing from log books to information texts about the explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton, as well as a narrative linked to our class reader: Skellig.

The half-term has flown by!

Please find attached below our 'Big Picture'.