Upper Key Stage 2 2025 - 2026

Welcome to our Upper Key Stage 2 Page!

Year 5 - Russet (Miss Hussey)

Year 5 - Bartletts (Mr Seaton)   

Year 6 - Stembridge (Ms Elliott)

Year 6 - Clarinette (Mr Musgrave)

Autumn Term 2025

Welcome to our Upper Key Stage 2 area! We hope that you will find this area of the website useful as we build in documents and photos that will help you understand our curriculum and see what the children have been up to:

Class Newsletters: Please see the files section at the bottom of the page for the latest newsletters. This has also been posted on class dojo by the class teacher. Please message them if you cannot find this. 

What a busy opening to the year we have already had. Please do not hesitate to contact your class teacher via ClassDojo if you need to ask a question and they will aim to get back to you within two school days (but hopefully quicker). If you need to message about change of pickup / absence then please ensure you contact the school office directly on 01460 52686. 

Please remember, as part of their weekly homework, all children are expected to practice their times tables through the TT Rockstars website or APP for a minimum of 20 minutes (four lots of five minutes ideally rather than one long chunk!) and teachers monitor this weekly. There are also certificates given out during our weekly celebration assembly for the best class and children. There is a parent guide and video What is Times Tables Rock Stars? Parents and Carers Guide (youtube.com) which helps explain the different game versions within TT Rockstars as some allow children to pick the times tables they get given (they often pick the ones they know) whilst others use their previous answers to determine which they need to practice more.
Please have a look at the latest information regarding our Reading Expectations that is found below as updated by Mr Whitfield in a message to parents in October 2024. We now expect all children to read for a minimum of five times a week for 10 minutes each time, this can be through listening to and reading texts.  Please ensure you sign their reading records weekly for all these occasions and these are subsequently checked in school. We do offer the children the opportunity to read within the school day at our daily morning reading club.

Year 6 parents/careers, your children will be receiving extra weekly pieces of homework for a few reasons. Firstly, to ensure that they are getting ready for their transition onto secondary schools next year, but also to give them extra opportunities to prepare for their SATs papers which they will be sitting in May 2026.

This year we are beginning a brand-new way to teach our writing curriculum (alongside phonics, spellings and handwriting!). If you hear the term 'chotting' do not worry... your child is using a term we use in class that is a mix of quality chatting or discussions and jotting ideas down. We hope this new way of teaching will inspire many children to gain a love of writing.