Welcome to the Autumn Term 2025 in Owls’ Class

Our topic this term is about the invasion of Britain by the Anglo-Saxons, Scots and Vikings in the fifth century, and our class book is Michael Morpurgo’s ‘The Sleeping Sword’.

We have a very busy autumn term ahead, including our exciting Residential Trip to Hill Top in Norfolk, class trip to Sutton Hoo, and  Bikeabilty for Year 6s.

Please make sure that you have a named water bottle with you every day at school. Remember you do not need to bring pencil cases to school in Owls’ class as pens, pencils etc will be provided in class and any pencil cases brought into school will have to remain in bags to maximise table space.

This term, swimming lessons will be on Tuesdays and PE on Fridays.

At the beginning of term you will have the chance to nominate and vote for the school House Captains, so start thinking about whether you would like to stand as a House Captain and why you would be a good choice.

On the curriculum overview, you can see what we will be learning about this term. At the beginning of the term, you will receive a homework grid, with options of different activities to choose from. This homework needs to be returned to school as you complete each piece. It can be returned to either of your class teachers for marking.

You will continue to have spellings to learn each week, ready for a spelling test on the following Thursday or Friday. Remember to practise your tables frequently, as you have a log-in to the times-tables website. Times table knowledge is important to all maths topics, so keep practising!

Please share your Learning Conversation with your parents, and ask them to sign to show that they have seen it. It is also really important to read regularly, so remember to take your reading book to share it with the adults at home.

Our learning conversations are glued into Reading log books, at the beginning of every week, but here is an example of one: