Welcome to our fantastic class for the oldest pupils in school!
A bit about us…
Class 4 is our upper Key Stage 2 class for Year 5 & 6 pupils. Our class teacher is Mr Vincent and he is supported by Ms Kitching. As a team, they are constantly keeping their pupils on their toes, stretching and challenging their learning, helping them to collaborate with each other, encouraging them in their strengths and supporting each pupil as they demonstrate determination, perseverance and resilience, in order to make the very best of themselves.
Whilst we work hard in Year 5 and 6, be prepared for lots of fun and to take part in lots of sports! We love sports in Class 4 and take part in local sporting leagues, where we learn new skills and how to work as part of a team!
Year 6
Year 6 is an incredibly important year, giving children the opportunity to bring together all of their prior learning in preparation to achieve the highest academic level possible ready to embark upon the next step at secondary school. It is also the year that pupils take parts in SATs (Statutory Assessment Tests) in Reading, Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling and Maths. These take part annually in the month of May.
To find out more about our curriculum, you can read our curriculum over view, view our Long Term plans below, or read the whole-school curriculum offer by clicking here.
Things you should know:
*Each child is given a reading book to read at home. Children will be listened to reading during shared reading sessions, as well as by different adults in school. Reading at home is expected and encouraged; we aim for at least 3 times a week as this will really help your children’s progress.
*Your child will bring home 10 spellings each week to learn for a spelling test on Friday.
*One of our key focuses in numeracy is times tables, ensuring children are ready for the multiplication check in year 4. Every child, from Year 2 onwards, is expected to complete 20 minutes of multiplication practise each week on the TTRockstars app.
Class Four Planning Documents
English Long Term Planning
Y5 & Y6 English Cycle A Y5 & Y6 English Cycle B
Foundation Subjects Long Term Planning
Class 4 Cycle A LTP Class 4 Cycle B LTP
What have Class Four been up to?
Saying goodbye to Primary School for Year 6 06.07.23
Year 6 children went for lunch at The Copper Mine with Mr Vincent and Ms Kitching for their leavers meal. The children got to order a drink, main meal and dessert from the menu. It was lovely to spend time with the children, see them chatting and having fun for one of the last times in Primary School. Their manners and behaviour were impeccable. We couldn’t be prouder of our wonderful pupils.
The First Three Weeks (22.09.23)
Class 4 pupils have really risen to the challenge of being the oldest pupils in school, and we are so proud of how they have returned after the summer break. As you all know, Year 6 is a very busy year but our motto is that we work hard and play even harder-especially with our sports! So far this term, we’ve played a Handball festival at Parkside where our second team won their league and our first team came second. We’ve played 2 rounds of Tag Rugby fixtures at Wolsingham and we’ve played our Level 2 Netball competition and came second!
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October in Class 4
Class 4 have been working hard this month-there is never a spare minute in the day and every day is so different! We’ve been learning about the life of the Ancient Greeks in History, dissecting eggs to learn about the different parts in Science and writing and improving diary entries in English! On top of that, we’ve had a visit from Crook Firefighters to remind us about Bonfire Night safety and we took part in our school Harvest celebration at St. Stephen’s church! What a fabulous month!
The last few months in Class 4…
Wow, time is speeding by! It’s been a whirl of festive preparations, lots of learning and sporting fixtures. Some of our highlights have been our class Christmas party, taking part in our production of ‘Baubles’ and going to Panto. We were incredibly proud of the children who took part in a visit to Willington Care Village to sing Christmas carols for the residents. In DT, we made pop-up books. We chose our younger children as our target audience and used Christmas as our theme.
January 2024…
Class 4 have gotten off to an electric start this year and have been enjoying our electricity topic in Science. We’ve been exploring circuits and have really enjoyed the practical side of the topic!
Archived Class Information
You can view our archived Class Information on our website.