Welcome to Upper Key Stage Two!

    Respect   Relationships   Resilient   Reflective   Responsible

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Meet our team!

A very warm welcome to Upper School from Mrs Price, Mrs Beckinsale-Yates, Miss Monoghan, Mr Langford, Mr Jackson-Savill and Miss Locke!

This year, our teaching assistants are Mrs Della Rocca, Mrs Goodman, Miss Koppel, Miss Emson and Mrs Pearson. 

The following page will  hopefully provide you with as much information as possible. However, if you ever have any problems, concerns or questions, please see a member of the team at the beginning or end of the school day; or by phoning the school office.

Here at Broomhill, we have an open door policy and welcome parents into school. 

We are all looking forward to a brilliant year with the children!

Welcome!

Children are now entering upper KS2 and as well as getting ready for new challenges, they will now become role models for our younger children. Throughout the year, the children will be exploring a variety of exciting and engaging cross-curricular topics including: Revolution, Frozen Kingdom, Blood Heart, Gallery Rebels and A Child's War. 

Our Current Topic: Gallery Rebels 

Colours collide, melting together on the canvas: an impression of light, a rage of red, a lobster perched on a telephone. Come and find out about the bizarre and eccentric minds of the gallery rebels. Art can be an act of rebellion. Can you change the world with a paintbrush, a thought, or an idea? Dream the dream, or show us your nightmares. What do you see? Watches melting? Wheels spinning? A shark in a box? Can you express yourself without words? Well, a picture paints a thousand of them. Try your hand at a Damien Hirst sculpture, exploring the weird and wonderful to create a curious treasure for the next generation. Take up your arms and fight for the cause. Paintbrushes and sketchbooks at the ready. Let’s make art.

Our Focus Text

Throughout the topic, we be reading Pig Heart Boy, a children's novel by Malorie Blackman. 

Malorie Blackman’s poignant and thought-provoking award-winner. Cameron is thirteen and his heart is failing. He needs a heart transplant – fast. Then a pioneering doctor approaches his family with a startling proposal. He can give Cameron a new heart: a heart from a pig. It’s a weird idea. But Cameron is fed up with sitting on life’s sidelines, unable to play sport or swim. He has to give it a try – even if it means becoming the world’s first pig-heart boy.

Soon Cameron is discovering how great it feels to live a normal life. But there are some people who don’t think it’s normal for a boy to have a pig’s heart. Will Cameron’s new life last long enough for him to discover what it’s really all about? Shocking, original and moving, this is the remarkable story of a boy learning who he really is, while going where no one has ever gone before.

Themes to look out for:

-Ethics of transplants

-Relationships

-Value of life

-Choices

-Forgiveness

-Communication

Gallery Rebels Information

Homework

All of the topics in UKS2 have a Creative Homework Project linked to them, which will give your child the opportunity to showcase their talents, strengths and interests. This will be shared on ClassDojo every Friday to be completed by the following Friday. The Creative Homework directly links to what is being taught the following week after it has been handed in.  

Homework expectations:

-We expect children to read as much as possible. Children in UKS2 should be reading daily at home. 

-Children are given a spelling test weekly (every Thursday or Friday), so we expect children to practise their spellings at home. We have two practice sessions in school to support children with learning their spellings. Spelling lists are posted below (half-termly), as well as on their class page on ClassDojo. 

-In UKS2, children should already know all of their times tables. We do recommend that children practise these as much as possible. Your child will have a Times Table Rockstar login to practise these at home. This website has proved to be very popular and practise makes perfect when it comes to times tables!

-In addition to this, we will set an optional piece of English and Maths homework each week using an online platform called Learning by Questions. The link to this website will be set every Monday and Tuesday evening and will be shared on ClassDojo. 

These are the upcoming spellings for the children. Please check ClassDojo for the dates, as they change depending on our curriculum for that week. 

At Broomhill, we follow the the Spelling Shed's approach to spelling. This can be accessed at home, using the following link: Spelling Shed. 

Your child will have a Spelling Shed log in and password to access the programme. 

Spellings will be added shortly, following the beginning of English and Maths. 

Class Dojo

Please support your child and the school with their behaviour and news by signing up to ClassDojo. 

You can do this here at https://www.classdojo.com. 

We use ClassDojo daily to communicate with you. By using the app, we can provide your child with positive points for a variety of reasons. It also allows us to instantly share messages, updates, photographs and your child's success within the classroom. 

If you have not signed up already, please request a code from your child's class teacher to see all the benefits. 

Attendance

Your child will know Mr BY's famous phrase 'The more children are in school, the more they are learning'. Our aim is for children's attendance to be at least 97%.

Within school, we regularly celebrate attendance with the children. 

Here is the current attendance, for the academic year of 2023-2024. 

Attendance updated on 25/03/2024

Class 6: 91.6%

Class 7: 91.9%

Class 8: 90.7%

Class 9: 94.4%

Class 10: 96%

We appreciate your continued support. 

SEAL and our 5R's

Every week, children participate in a SEAL lesson. 

Social and emotional aspects of learning (SEAL) is a comprehensive, whole-school approach to promoting the social and emotional skills that underpin effective learning, positive behaviour, regular attendance, staff effectiveness and the emotional health and well-being of all who learn and work in schools.

During the Autumn term, the whole school will be focusing on 'New Beginnings'. 

This theme focuses on developing children’s knowledge, understanding and skills in four key aspects of social and emotional learning: empathy, self-awareness, social skills and motivation.

The theme offers children the opportunity to see themselves as valued individuals within a community, and to contribute to shaping a welcoming, safe and fair learning community for all. Throughout the theme children explore feelings of happiness and excitement, sadness, anxiety and fearfulness, while learning (and putting into practice) shared models for ‘calming down’ and ‘problem solving’.

The intended learning outcomes for Years 5 and 6 are described below. Teachers will be aware of the different stages that children in the class may be at in their learning, and may want to draw also on intended learning outcomes from earlier year groups

Children will be taught:

1a) to recognise their worth as individuals, by identifying positive things about themselves and their achievements, seeing their mistakes, making amends and setting personal goals;

1b) to face new challenges positively by collecting information, looking for help, making responsible choices and taking action;

2a) why and how rules and laws are made and enforced, why different rules are needed in different situations and how to take part in making and changing rules;

2b) that there are different kinds of responsibilities, rights and duties at home, at school and in the community, and that these can sometimes conflict with each other;

2c) to reflect on spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues, using imagination to understand other people’s experiences;

3a) that their actions affect themselves and others, to care about other people’s feelings and to try to see things from their points of view;

3b) to be aware of different types of relationships, including marriage and those between friends and families, and to develop the skills to be effective in relationships;

4a) to realise the nature and consequences of racism, teasing, bullying and aggressive behaviours, and how to respond to them and ask for help

Furthermore, we will be having an extra focus on one of our 5R's. Our focused 5R throughout this topic is RESPECT. Within this, children will discuss what this is and what it looks like in our words and actions.  Links will be made with our British-Values, through showing respect to others and mutual tolerance. 

If you would like anymore information regarding SEAL, please see the following link https://www.theschoolrun.com/what-primary-seal

Physical Education

A high-quality physical education curriculum inspires all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically-demanding activities.  It should provide opportunities for pupils to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness.  Opportunities to compete in sport and other activities build character and help to embed values such as fairness and respect.

Every child at Broomhill Junior School participates in at least 2 hours of physical education (P.E) a week. Furthermore, we also encourage the children to participate in completing 'The Daily Mile' and/or similar physical activities. Because of this, we please ask that you ensure P.E kits are kept in school all week (including a change of outdoor trainers). 

Our current topics and days are: 

Class 6: Monday and Thursday (Dance, Netball and Swimming for Y5) 

Class 7: Thursday and Friday (Dance, Netball for Y5 and Handball for Y6) 

Class 8: Thursday and Friday (Dance,  Swimming for Y5 and Badminton for Y6) 

Class 9: Monday and Thursday (Dance, Badminton for Y5 and Handball for Y6)  

Class 10: Tuesday and Thursday (Dance and Netball)

Year 5 will also be swimming throughout the whole year, with half of the year group going for a term and a half, and the other half of the year group for the other term and a half. 

Group 1:  Starts on Thursday the 14th of September and ends on Thursday the 8th of February.

Group 2:  Starts on Thursday the 29th of February and ends on Thursday the 18th of July. 

There will be no swimming on Thursday the 21st of December 2023 and on Thursday the 22nd of February 2024, due to staff training for the coaches and a swimming gala event. 

Learning From Home

We have put together some links to online resources that can support children learning at home.

Parents- We would ask that Parents consider how to keep children safe when they are online. NSPCC has some fantastic guidance available here: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/.  We would recommend setting parental controls on any devices and keep an eye on your child's history. 

Children- just a reminder if you ever see anything that makes you uncomfortable please speak to an adult. This website is brilliant for learning about how to keep yourself safe https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/ - there are even games!

Every child has been given a login for classroom secrets. They will have work set every Monday, Wednesday and Friday sent via Class Dojo.

Reading for Pleasure

We have produced some suggested reading lists for each year group which might be helpful to provide high quality texts at home for your child.

Audible stories Audible are now offering children free audio books whilst schools are closed.

www.getepic.com (hundreds of free books to read on line)

Maths Games

• TT Rock stars - you will need your school login

• White Rose Maths Select your year group to view videos and activities to complete

• Maths games- all age maths zone

• Year 1 and 2 Maths games Top marks

• Maths games KS2 top marks
• Numberblocks episodes
• https://nrich.maths.org/ - Welcome to the home of rich Mathematics
• www.edshed.com/en-gb
• https://numbots.com/
• https://www.transum.org/

English Games

• Phonics play- Infant 1 and 2 phonics games Username: march20 password: home

• Phonics and Letter formation - Infant 1 Miss Emma

• English games top marks

• Alphablocks- episodes

• Phonics games- Woodlands literacy zone

• English junior games top marks

• Junior writing prompts Literacy shed
• Pobble365 – writing challenges

• World e-books Wide range of e-books all available free
• https://www.teachwire.net/news/5-of-the-best-online-grammar-games-for-ks2-english
• www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home
• www.storylineonline.net/
• www.onceuponapicture.co.uk (images and questions to inspire writing)

Topic Games/ Useful Websites

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach - Free curriculum-mapped videos for your classroom, arranged by subject and age-group; Live Lessons presented by top BBC talent; educational campaigns including Super Movers and Bring the Noise.
• www.dkfindout.com/uk
• www.natgeokids.com/uk/ (geography activities)
• Scholastic classroom - infant 1 A different book, video and activity ideas for every day

• Scholastic classroom- infant 2 A different book, video and activity ideas for every day

• Scholastic classroom Junior 1 A different book, video and activity ideas for every day

• Scholastic classroom Junior 2 A different book, video and activity ideas for every day

• Researchify To research any topic!

• Homework help for kids Geography, History, Art and RE useful information

• BBC bitesize - Infants Fun activities and games for every part of the curriculum

• BBC bitesize- Juniors Information and games about all the different subjects we cover at school

• Home learning padlet A padlet with ever growing list of further links

• Rock Steady Music resources
• https://www.robinhoodmat.co.uk/learning-projects/ (lots of projects for all key stages)
• http://www.lcfclubs.com/ (French games, English games and grammar activities. Use the password LCF2020sch to create a single user account)
• https://www.tts-group.co.uk/home+learning+activities.html

Staying active is really important, but harder if you’re having to try and stay away from others. Here are some websites that might help.

• Joe Wicks Home workouts for kids

• Change 4 life10 minute shake up activities

• Cosmic yoga Home yoga exercises

• Fit kids club Exercise videos currently free (normally on demand)

Our Wonderful Classrooms

Our Values

At Broomhill, we all follow the 5Rs; Resect, Relationships, Responsible, Reflective and Resilient. Here are some examples of our work based on these 5Rs.

Anti-Bullying

Anti-bullying at Broomhill; All classrooms have this Anti-bullying poster displayed, which has been designed by some of our children. Every year, Anti-bullying is marked by having themed lessons as part of our SEAL work and where appropriate, English work. 

National Curriculum Spellings

Curriculum Yearly Overview

Please see below our curriculum overview for the year. 

Curriculum Fliers for the Year

Here are the curriculum fliers for this academic year. Please note, these are subject to change, as we get closer to the topics. This is due to us constantly changing and adapting our curriculum to meet the children's needs. 

Useful Links