Welcome to
Upper Key Stage Two
Staff
Mrs Kelly - Phase Leader and Class Teacher 5/6K
Mrs Cooper - Class Teacher 6C
Miss Nuttall - Class Teacher 6N
Miss Day - Class Teacher 5D
Mr Lock and Miss Keen - Class Teachers 5LK
If you would like to speak to a member of the team please pop into the office to make an appointment or e-mail Mrs Kelly on upperks2byron@thewestbrooktrust.org
Children's learning in UKS2 is supported by a team of teaching assistants (TAs).
Our TAs support in all classes, as well as teaching phonics throughout the school.
TAs in UKS2 - Mrs Baker, Mrs Reeve, Mr Allen and Miss Warren-Leighton
Tuesday 2nd September - start of Term 1
Monday 8th September - swimming starts for Year 5 (see below)
Tuesday 16th - Medway Test
Wednesday 17th - Medway Test
Friday 26th September - school photo day
Wednesday 1st October - flu vaccination day
Wednesday 15th October - junior disco
Friday 17th October - end of term 1 and Tag Day
PE - Term 1
5D - TBC
5LK - TBC
5/6K - TBC
6C - TBC
6N - TBC
This term our indoor PE will be gymnastics and outdoor PE will be running.
Pupils should come into school wearing their PE kit.
If you need to contact us,
Curriculum
Information
Phonics and literacy
For more information on the teaching of phonics and literacy at Byron click here.
Maths
The main focus within Year 5/6 is using and applying our Maths knowledge.
Below are links to two documents showing what children should know and be able to do in Maths by the end of year 5 and 6:
Children should practise their times tables using the TT Rockstars app, Purple Mash and activties on the Top Marks website.
Our Curriculum Work Term 1
Art and Geograpy
In the first term of this year, our Curriculum subjects are Art and Geography.
Art
In Art we will be refreshing our knowledge on scale and proportion. We will then study Cubism and create our own artwork based on Picasso.
Geography
This term, we will be learning about grid references then moving on to study climate zones, biomes and local coastlines.
Religious Education
Over terms 1 and 2 we will be learning about Hinduism. We will find out how and where Hindus worship and their understanding of life cycles.
Rights Respecting School
Article 7
The right to have a name. We encourage children to look into the meaning/origin of their names and make a picture any size, any style of their name for a display.
These are some of the websites that we like to use in school which the children have a log in for:
TT Rockstars - https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Purple Mash - https://www.purplemash.com/sch/byron-me7
myON (reading resources and quizzes) https://www.myon.co.uk/login/
Accelerated Reader https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/1893768