Silkstone Primary School

Welcome to Class Five  

In Class 5, the children will be working with Miss Glisson and Mrs Ellis. Our aim for this year is to make sure the children feel happy, safe and valued in order to make progress in their learning. We want the children to learn new skills, take on new challenges and grow in confidence throughout the year.

We will be rewarded each week for good behaviour, following our school rules and working hard. We can earn Dojo points individually, positive letters home and can be named Star of the Week. We can also earn a whole class reward if we work well as a team to achieve our goals.

Children will have weekly spellings, reading and homework tasks. Please encourage your child to complete their home learning and continue to practise their times tables. Spellings are practised on Edshed and are set weekly and for times tables we use TT Rockstars. We have also sent a reading record home with your child and ask that you read at least 3 times a week with them and note this in their record. Please can children hand their reading record in on a Thursday so we can reward excellent reading behaviour.

Our PE days will be a Wednesday and Thursday (swimming). Your child needs to have their PE kit/swimming kit, including suitable footwear on these days and earrings must be removed.

We will use Class Dojo to post class information, reminders and a termly overview so please login if you haven’t already.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have, we are always happy to help.

We look forward to a fantastic year ahead with your children, creating wonderful memories, working hard and being our best selves!

Curriculum Map for Autumn 2025

Academic Year 2024 - 2025.

Summer Term Curriculum Overview

We are Historians

We had an amazing day at the Coal Mining Museum - it linked really well to our local history study and we saw the conditions that the children of the Huskar Pit would have worked in.  The showers were a bit gruesome! 

We are Artists

We have enjoyed creating Zines using imagery from the Berlie Doughtery poem, 'Ghost in the Garden'.  We selected our favourite lines from the poem and used acrylics and water colours to create our images.

Our Curriculum Map for the Spring Term

We are Designers and Makers

We worked hard to design and make our CAMS Christmas toys.

Run for Epilepsy Action

We ran a mile around the school to raise funds for Epilepsy Action.  

We are Scientists.

In Class 5, we are learning about Forces in Science - this afternoon, we have created parachutes and thought about how air resistance affects how they fall to the ground. We got the large parachute out and explored how gravity and air worked to affect the parachute. We also used our knowledge of air resistance to build a little parachute den - it was so good, we let Year 1 have a go too. Lots of fun and lots of learning - a perfect afternoon. 

Curriculum Information Autumn Term 2024

Academic Year 2023-2024

Curriculum Overview 2024

Street Dance

We loved our street dance workshop today.

Fabric Lenny

We worked with the artist Fabric Lenny to create these wonderful pieces of art linked to Windrush as part of our topic on the British Empire and the important contribution made to our culture and country.

Opera North

We had so much fun with Marie-Claire and Peter at our first Opera North rehearsal - we love the quirky Wonderland Restored and cannot wait to perform at Barnsley Metrodome in July.

Curriculum Map Spring Term

Father Christmas

We enjoyed having a chat with Father Christmas when he came to visit us.

Dance

In PE - we have been learning Bollywood dance moves - we have been using the music Jai Ho and Spice up your Life - both great for doing our specialist move of Shimmying! 

Reading for Pleasure

We have enjoyed our Class book so much; we wrote a persuasive letter to Mrs Adams to get some more books by the same author.  She was so impressed she said 'Yes'.

Typography and 3D designs

In Art, we have learned about typography and map work and linked this to our work on Mountains and Everest - we created 3D models that were so brilliant we held a little impromptu art exhibition for Mrs Dolan and Year 4 - we have created digital artwork from the models and will share these when we have perfected them.

Science

In Science, we have been exploring the properties of different materials.

National CoalMining Museum

Children were exemplary and a credit to Silkstone - enjoyed learning about the Victorian workers in the mine and meeting Sam - whose family were actually very prolific in instigating change and better conditions in the Welsh Mines. We loved meeting the pit ponies, especially Flynn - who was huge! We also learnt how to protect our packed lunches from rats - which linked brilliantly to our learning in Science about properties of materials.

Self Portraits

We are incredibly proud of our self portraits, created in the style of Romero Britto.

Dan the Skipping Man

We enjoyed learning different skipping styles with Dan the Skipping Man.

Run for Macmillan

Well done everyone for running a mile to raise funds for Macmillan.

Curriculum Information for the Autumn Term