Year 5/6 Autumn Term 2026 Newsletter

Dear Families,

Welcome back after the Summer holidays, we hope you all had a fun and relaxing break.

This half term we will be studying:

Science: Life cycles

History: Aztecs

RE: Christianity

PE: Lessons will be taught on Thursdays and Fridays. Pupils should come to school wearing their PE kit on these days. Pupils can also wear PE kit to school on days when they are attending a lunchtime/after school sports club. On all other days, pupils should wear school uniform. Please ensure that long hair is tied back at all times and jewellery is restricted to a pair of stud earrings and a watch. Please see our website for a reminder of our uniform expectations:

We will set homework on a Friday and will collect on the following Friday. We strongly encourage your child to read daily and ask you to talk to them about their books and discuss the characters, make predictions about what may happen next etc., There are many benefits of sharing books together - aside from encouraging a love of reading. It will help develop your child’s vocabulary, which in turn will make them more confident when reading more challenging books, and learning in other subjects at school.

It is also important that pupils are fluent using times tables as these underpin a lot of Year 5/6 maths. Please encourage your child to practise these using Tackling Tables.

Mobile phones If your child walks home and needs to bring a phone to school, they may do so. They should place their phone in the class box first thing in the morning; this will be secured in the office for the day. Pupils will be able to retrieve their phone at the end of the day but should keep them switched off until they are off the school premises. We have spoken to the children about this and explained it is for safeguarding purposes.

Useful dates:

Half term - Monday 26th to Friday 30th October

Parent Consultations - Tuesday 13th October and Thursday 15th October

PD days - Friday 23rd October and Monday 2nd November

Last day of term - Friday 18th December

Please also check the school’s weekly newsletter and website for any added or amended dates.