Welcome to Class 5 2025 -2026
Homework for Friday 5th December 2025
This week in school we are rehearsing the Christmas Performance, the children are all doing an amazing job! This week for homework we are asking children to prepare for their part in the nativity performance and rehearse their lines from the script.
Thank you for your continued support!
Christmas Tree Decorations
Christmas has officially began in class 5! We all decorated our class tree and began our love to read text ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens. We are excited to make all of our Christmas crafts and put on our nativity performance for our loved ones.
PSHCE
This half term we are working hard on all of our emotions and how we can help manage them. We worked in small groups to act out different scenarios and discussed how we could and should respond to them.
Gymnastics with Leanne
We are loving our current PE topic with Leanne Kemp, showing off our amazing gymnastics skills! Leanne can not believe the amount of talent in just one class! Keep up the amazing work!
Homework for THURSDAY 27th November 2025
This week in class we are working on our math’s skills and ensuring that we have an excellent understanding of the four calculations. Please complete the task below to help you with this very important skill!
Reply from Luke Akehurst
Today we were delighted to hear back from local MP, Luke Akehurst. He replied to our letters about ocean pollution as part of our recycling week work. We are looking forward to seeing him soon.
Homework for Friday 21st November 2025
This week in class we are continuing our work on Revolution and the Victorian era. In Literacy we are working on the workhouses and are beginning to learn about Dr Barnardo and his work for the people during this time.
Crisis Sleepover
Well done to all of our year 6 children who attended the sleepover at the weekend. They were all amazing and had so much fun joining in lots of activities to raise awareness and money for crisis, a charity that helps people who find themselves in difficult situations. We made shelters, designed outfits and joined in a soup kitchen. A massive thank you to Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Edwards for sleeping over and helping out too. As well as Chris, school governor, for his help in the soup kitchen.
Sports Hall Athletics
We are so proud of our class 5 children who took part in a range of athletics events at the sports hall athletics competition at maiden castle. We worked so hard as a team but also individually, where some children even came first, second and third in individual heats.
Well done everyone!
Poppy Art
We have worked hard in art this week to create amazing poppy art for remembrance day. You can view our work on the fence outside of school. We are proud of the work created and the understanding of the importance of poppy day.
Homework for Friday 14th November 2025
This week in class we are beginning our Science topic of electricity. We are working hard to recap the scientific vocabulary we already know and how we can create a range of different curcuits. Please see the homeowrk linkin to our learning.
Thank you for your continued support.
Rugby with Marc
This week we have started our weekly rugby sessions with Marc. We recapped all of our previous knowledge and impressed Marc with our skills and play.
Science Investigation
We have enjoyed our mini project on light this week. We enjoyed using the resources to investigate the way in which different materials react to light sources.
Memorable Experience
What an amazing afternoon we had with Adam Bushnell. He worked with us to help us plan out a Victorian ghost story! We can’t wait to write them, watch this space …
Cricket with Leanne Kemp
We had lots of fun working with Leanne to improve our cricket skills. We are all talented in this game!
Homework for Friday 7th November 2025
This week in numeracy we are continuing with our knowledge of multiplication and division. Please work with your child to complete the task below.
Any questions, please ask.
Thank you for your continued support.
Welcome to Autumn 2
It is lovely to welcome the children back to the second half term. We are looking forward to learning all bout our new topic: Revolution. We also have our annual sleepover happening this term, keep an eye out for letters about this. And not forgetting Christmas! The year 6 children are so excited to celebrate their final Christmas in primary school.
Halloween Disco
We all had lots of fun at the Halloween disco. Our costumes were amazing!
Halloween Treats
We loved working with Class 1 to help them with their Halloween crafts.
Clay Celebration
Today we made clay tablets to celebrate the end of our Hola Mexico topic. We took inspiration from the Mayan Civilization art work and craved symbols that we felt represented ourselves.
Speed bounce with Darren
We loved having Darren, from the SSP, work with us on our first inter house event … speed bounce! We are super impressed with the skills demonstrated!
Cricket with Leanne
To celebrate our half term of work with Leanne Kemp she gave us a lovely treat .. cricket! We were so impressed with the skills demonstrated and at how quickly the children picked up the rules of the game.
Halloween Music
We had a special treat in ukulele this week with Mr Stokoe …. Halloween music! Mr Stokoe taught us how to play the monster mash! Spooky!
Homework for Friday 24th October
This week in class we are completing our rising stars assessments for the first time in year 6! We are all doing an amazing job! Please complete the SPAG homework, which will help with our Grammar test this week.
Many Thanks
Mrs Aspinall
Poetry Competetion
We have worked so hard in Literacy this half term, really working on our writing to show off the skills needed in year 6. We have loved our poem work and as a result have entered a young writers poetry competition. We read out our poems to the rest of the class and are keeping our fingers crossed for a response!
Down at the farm food experience
We really enjoyed our work with Chartwells, experiencing a variety of foods and learning more about where our food comes from. A valuable experience all round!
Career Encounter
A big thank you to Michael Pierre for talking to class 5 all about how he has recently published a children’s book. He told us all about his career journey and how he uses computing to make books.
Thanks again – we all really enjoyed it!
Letter to Luke Akehurst Local MP
Hello Luke
We hope this email finds you well.
I am forwarding letters to yourself on behalf of my year 6 children at Nettlesworth Primary School. This week is recycling week and we have learnt all about the impact plastic pollution is having on our oceans.
We have written letters to raise awareness of this matter.
We were hoping that you would be able to read them and hopefully reply, letting us know what the government are currently doing to help with this issue.
We will look forward to hearing from you soon.
Many Thanks
Mrs Aspinall
Homework for Friday 17th October
This week in class we are finishing off our materials topic in Science. Please work with your child to complete the task, showing off their newly acquired scientific knowledge.
Meditation
We loved joining in with the whole school meditation session to celebrate mental health awareness day.
Chocolate Bars
In DT we have designed and made our very own chocolate bar. We thought carefully about the ingredients we would like to include. We then melted the chocolate carefully and added in all the lovely ingredients before popping them in the fridge. We are excited to eat them!
Music with Mr Stokoe
We are continuing to impress with our amazing music skills. We are experts at reading musical notes and playing. We can not wait to show off our new skills with the whole school.
Cross Country
A massive well done to our year 6 runners … we are so proud of you all!
Homework for Friday 10th October
This week in class we are looking at shape. Please work with your child to recap the key information learnt in previous years.
Any questions, please ask.
Class debate
In Literacy we have learnt all about Apollo 13. The end result being that we wrote a balanced arguments so that people can make their own informed opinions. To put our knowledge to the test we held a class debate. We defiantly have some future Politian’s in class 5! What wonderfully, clear speakers we have!
Homework for Friday 3rd October
This week in class we are beginning to learn about the Apollo 13 mission. For homework we are reading a little more about the mission and enhancing our knowledge of the project, ready for our writing task on Friday.
Baking with Mrs Burton for Macmillan
We had an amazing time baking with Mrs. Burton ready for our coffee morning. We loved looking at the recipe and measuring out the ingredients. We must say … the results were amazing!
Local places of worship
In Class 5 we are really enjoying our RE topic of researching and learning all about the different local places or worship. We learnt so many facts about the different ways that people who follow Christianity worship. We loved presenting our findings to the rest of the class.
Homework for Friday 26th September 2025
This week our homework is focusing on Science. In class we are learning all about different materials and carrying out different investigations to learn about their suitability.
Jeans for Genes Day
Everyone looked amazing in their denim today! Thank you all for your kind donations for such a wonderful charity.
Athletics with Mr. Beveridge
We are all working so hard in our PE sessions to improve our athletics skills. This week we focused on running and being be to run for a sustained amount of time. Well done to everyone, you all ran so well.
Homework for Friday 19th September 2025
This week in numeracy we are looking at addition and subtraction. We are working hard on our mental and written methods of calculation.
Day of the Dead Skulls
In art we have created a day of the dead paper mache skull. We looked at designs and then created our own personalised one. We then used paint and other materials to transfer our design onto the 3D structure.
Science Investigation
This half term our Science theme is materials. This week we carried out an investigation around the properties of given materials. We used a variety of tools to test the hardness, magnetism and transparency of different everyday materials. We were then able to draw conclusions based on what we found.
Ukulele with Mr Stokoe
This week we began our music lessons with Mr Stokoe. He was impressed with our knowledge and understanding of musical notes. We played the instruments so well!
Cricket Legends!
We are so proud of Harry and Archie for having the honor of walking out with the England cricket team at the weekend. What an amazing opportunity and exciting event for you!
Homework week commencing 8.9.25
This week in class we are enjoying reading our key text ‘Journey to the River Sea’. We are loving listening to the story and then using what we have heard in our writing.
This week for homework we are working on our comprehensive skills. Please complete the reading comprehension attached.
Memorable Experience
Hola Mexico! Class 5 enjoyed tasting traditional food and drink from Mexico! We are all now amazing at making tacos and watermelon smoothies!
Welcome to Year 6!
Welcome back to school everyone and a very big welcome to year 6! I hope you have enjoyed your summer break and are looking forward to the new school year. We are so excited to see you all and are ready to learn lots of new exciting things! I am looking forward to all of the exciting things throughout the final year of your primary school journey.
We are excited to begin our new topic of Hola Mexico! Tomorrow we will have our engagement activities … we are looking forward to them!
