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Class Four
Class Four has children from Year Five and Year Six and they follow the Key Stage Two National Curriculum. Their class teachers are Mr Woodward (Monday, Thursday and Friday) and Mrs Woolliscroft (Tuesday and Wednesday).
To contact either of us, please use
awoodward@inspiream.org.uk
Topic Information
Recommended Book Lists - Year 5 & 6
Recommended book list - Years 5 & 6
Year 5
Wolf Brother – Michelle Paver
Who Let the Gods out – Max Evans
Beatle Boy – MG Leonard
Boy in the Tower – Polly Ho-Yen
The Wolf Wilder – Katherine Rundell
Heidi – Johanna Spyri
Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
The Wonder Garden – Jenny Bloom and Kristjana Willimas
The Breadwinner – Deborah Ellis
The Butterfly Lion – Michael Morpurgo
Charlotte’s Web – E.B White
Clockwork – Phillip Pullman
Danny the Champion of the World – Roald Dahl
The What on Earth? Wallbook Timeline of Big History – Christopher Lloyd
Dial a Ghost – Eva Ibbotson
Dragon Rider – Cornelia Funke
Emil and the Detectives – Erich Kastner
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm – Norman Hunter
I Know what you did last Wednesday – Anthony Horowitz
Peter in Peril – Helen Bate
The Ghost of Thomas Kemp – Penelope Lively
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J.K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K Rowling
Heard it in the Playground – Allan Ahlberg
The Ultimate Alphabet – Mike Wilks
The Hundred and One Dalmations – Dodie Smith
The Iron Man – Ted Hughes
Krindlekrax – Philip Ridley
Scribbleboy – Philip Ridley
Stig of the Dump – Clive King
Hacker – Malorie Blackman
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit – Judith Kerr
Moondial – Helen Cresswell
The Deamon Headmaster – Gilliam Cross
The Witches – Roald Dahl
Bill’s New Frock – Anne Fine
The Mouse and his Child – Russell Hoban
The Clocktower Ghost – Gene Kemp
The Sheep-Pig – Dick King-Smith
King of the Cloud Forests – Michael Morpurgo
The Phoenix and the Carpet – E. Nesbit
The Scarecrow and his Servant – Philip Pullman
A Series of Unfortunate Events – Lemony Snicket
Woof – Allan Ahlberg
Laughter is and Egg – John Agard
The Factory Made Boy – Christine Nostlinger
Aquila – Andrew Norriss
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 0 Kate DiCamillo
Year 6
The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff – Andy Seed
A Boy Called Hope – Lara Williamson
Illegal – Eoin Colder
The Nowhere Emporium – Ross Mackenzie
Time Travelling with a Hamster – Ross Welford
Cogheart – Peter Bunzl
The Girl of Ink and Stars – Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Eren – Simon P Clark
The Railway Children – E.Nesbit
Abomination – Robert Swindells
Carries War – Nina Bawden
The What on Earth? Wallbook Timeline of Nature – Christopher Lloyd
Raspberries on the Yangtze – Karen Wallace
The Crowstarver – Dick King-Smith
Awful End – Philip Ardagh
From Hereabout Hill – Michael Morpurgo
Fruit and Nutcase – Jean Ure
Granny – Anthony Horowitz
The Hobbit – J.R.R Tolkin
Kenzuke’s Kingdom – Michael Morpurgo
Lion Boy – Zizou Corder
The Machiene Gunners – Robert Westall
The Viewer – Gary Crew
My Swordhand is Singing – Marcus Sedgwick
Once – Morris Gleitzman
The Other Side of Truth – Beverley Naidoo
The SIlver Sword – Ian Serrailler
Skellig – David Almond
Superfudge – Judy Blume
Tell me no Lies – Malorie Blackman
The Weathermonger – Peter Dickinson
What Katy Did – Susan Coolidge
The Wheel of Surya – Jamila Gavin
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S Lewis
Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian
Why the Whales Came – Michael Morpurgo
The Borrowers – Mary Norton
Silverfin – Charlie Higson
Oranges in No Man’s Land – Elizabeth Laird
Experiences
Being resourceful
Geography and English collide in our 'Being Resourceful' experience where children learnt about global warming and the skills needed to write a persuasive letter. We then put these skills to good use by writing a persuasive letter to Crystal Palace Football Club, encouraging them to make environmentally beneficial changes and explaining the importance of making the suggested changes.
We started off looking at finite and infinite resources. We then found out more about infinite resources.
We learnt about levels of formality to ensure our letter was written in the correct tone. Some of us looked at how switching between levels of formality could be used to enhance how persuasive our writing would be.
We found out more about finite and infinite resources, learning about how we could recognise whether a resource was finite or infinite and also considering the advantages and disadvantages of both.
We learnt about emotive language which proved to be incredibly powerful when writing our letters.
Out of this world
For a Science and English experience, we went to Otford Solar System to explore the scaled model. We were impressed to see just how vast the model was and it helped us to gain perspective on the size of space and distance between the difference planet.
For our outcome, we wrote and recorded scripts which can be used as a guided tour around Orford Solar System, informing the listeners about the different planets within our solar system.
We started off by looking at the structure of space and defining some of the key vocabulary.
We unpicked features of a script and looked at some of these in even more detail.
We researched our individual planet which provided us with the information needed to write our part of the script.
