Welcome to Base Five

Miss Watton and Mrs Robinson teach this class (Monday-Thursday).

Mrs Teece and Mrs Robinson teach this class each Friday.

Autumn Term 2026

Our class reader is…

‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell

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

We have started this term by learning about the Titanic in our Reading sessions. We have been written the non-fiction text “Titanic For Children” by Joe Fullman which is full of facts and real life stories about the famous tragedy. This has helped us with context for our first book in English (“Kasper: Prince of Cats” by Michael Morpurgo), which features a journey on the Titanic. By the end of half term, we will be composing a newspaper article based on the sinking of the Titanic. In English, we will then be going on to write our own poems based on ‘Night Mail’ by WH Auden.

In Maths, we will be place value and the four operations. We will also begin to look at fractions and Year 6 will learn about converting units of measurement.

Our Science topics this term we are learning about classifying living creatures, as well as adaptation, evolution and fossils. To support our understanding of this, after half term we will be reading the text “The Origin of the Species” by Sabina Radeva, a picture book to support our understanding of Darwin and his theory of evolution.

In Geography, we are revising our understanding of biomes from Year 3/4 and will be applying our understanding to learn about deserts. In History, we are learning about censuses and what they can tell us about people through history, with a p[articular focus on Victorian children and the suffragettes.

In DT, we will be exploring monitoring devices. In Music, we have been given the very exciting opportunity to take part in weekly ukulele lessons led by Telford and Wrekin’s Music Service. In Art, we will be covering drawing and craft & design.

In Computing, we will be exploring making music using technology and animations using Stop Motion Studio. We will also be covering online bullying using Project Evolve.

Our RE focuses are Religion and the Individual (Buddhism and Christianity) and Words of Wisdom (Sikhism, Islam and Christianity). In PSHE, we will focus on Being Me in My World and Celebrating Differences (Jigsaw).

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 Monday and Tuesday 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.