Welcome to Oak Class
Years 5 & 6
Teachers: Miss E Harris, Teaching Assistant: Mrs Z Dycer
Welcome to the Autumn Term 2026
A siren sounds and a Spitfire zooms overhead!
It’s 1939 and Britain is at war.
Our topic this term is A Child’s War.
We’ll plot the Second World War’s events on a timeline and learn about rationing, Pearl Harbour and the Battle of Britain. From a range of maps, we’ll identify safe and dangerous places during the war and make persuasive posters to support the war effort. We will look at The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank to help us understand different viewpoints. From a range of sources, we’ll find out about children and school during the war and learn about discrimination that existed at the time. We’ll learn about what it was like during the Blitz and think about how soldiers might have felt.
For Autumn term we are also doing:
Science – we are doing Forces and mechanisms and Earth and Space.
Art – we are doing Distortion and Abstract and Bees, Beetles and Butterflies.
DT – Make, Do and Mend.
Please see the curriculum overview below for an overview of all of the areas of learning for this school year in Oak class.
Oak Class Curriculum Overview 25-26
Oak Class Information
Communications and upcoming events will be on Class dojo.
Homework and Home Learning
Maths: We will be using White Rose Infinity to set maths homework. The children will either be set a quiz on a topic we have coming up or one we have just covered. Either way please encourage them to do this independently.
Reading Rewards
We would like pupils to be reading at home at least 3 times a week and be recording this in their reading records. They can do this themselves. However, having conversations with them about what they are reading will develop their comprehension skills.
