Welcome to Base Five

Miss Dhaliwal and Mrs Robinson teach this class.

Summer Term 2026

Our class reader is…

‘Letters from the Lighthouse’ by Emma Carroll.

Our overarching topic this term is… World War 2!

This term, we are covering an exciting range of topics across all the different curriculum areas:

In English, we will be reading a range of texts to inform our topic of ‘Fortune and Fate’. We will be exploring a gothic text in ‘Wind in the Wall’ and write our own poems based on ‘Night Mail’ by WH Auden.

In Reading, our class reader this term is ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’ by Emma Carroll.

In Maths, we will be covering shape, angles, position and direction, decimals, negative numbers and converting units.

Our Science topics this term we are learning about reproduction, the circulatory system and lifestyles.

In Geography, we will learning about where energy comes from and in History we are very excited to learn about the World War 2, with a particular focus on the Home Front and the war’s effect on civilians.

In DT, we will be exploring where food comes from and following a recipe. In Music, we will be learning songs from World War 1 and 2 including “White Cliffs of Dover” by Vera Lynn.

In Computing, we will be exploring computers of the past, with a focus on Bletchley Park, before moving onto computers of the future and looking at AI and its uses.

Homework

In Base 5, homework will be given out on a Friday and will be expected to be handed in by the following Thursday.

This will give the children a week to complete it. If they finish the homework before Friday they can bring it in early.

Spellings given out on a Friday will be tested on the following Friday.

Reading Expectations

Reading books and diaries need to be brought to school every day. Your child may change their book whenever they need to. Please continue to listen to your child read as often as you can; we expect children to be reading at home at least five times per week, writing a comment each time. If they accidentally leave their reading diary at school, they can write their comment on a scrap piece of paper ready to be copied in the following morning.

Children will be rewarded with a raffle ticket into the weekly draw if they achieve this weekly expectation of reading five times outside of school with comments for each read. The child whose raffle ticket is drawn is then able to go to our reading vending machine located just outside Mrs Stolic’s office and use a token to retrieve a book of their choice to keep!

Children must include a retrieval, vocabulary and inference comment at least once a week. Assistance with how to write these types of comments can be found in the comments booklet that has been stuck in the middle of your child’s reading diary.

PE and Crossbar in School

Children must come to school on a Tuesday and Friday wearing full PE kit to participate in the lesson.

Children should have a red Randlay or plain white T-shirt, black or navy shorts, socks and trainers as well as black or navy jogging bottoms.

We discourage the wearing of jewellery and for safety reasons, only stud earring may be worn – these must be removed or covered before participating in sport.