Welcome to our Falcons page.

 

 

"Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become

children of light.”

Ready, Respectful, Resilient

 

 

Meet the Falcons Team- 

 

 

  Miss Byrne- class teacher                                   

 

 

Mrs Armstrong- teaching assistant                                               

 

                                                                                                                         

 

 

Mr Jones- teaching assistant

 

 

Mrs Baker- teaching assistant

 

 

The following information tells you a little more about the coming term in Falcons and your child's learning. However, if you have any queries or questions please don't hesitate to contact me.

byrne@kingsleystjohns.co.uk 

 

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Spring Term 2026 

 

  Happy new year!

 

Our Christian Values 

During the Spring term, our Christian values are humility followed by forgiveness and compassion in the second half of the term. 

  

In Falcons, we all have different strengths and characteristics, and we are going to use them to help support and guide each other through our year in school. We will be there for each other and help encourage each other to make the right decisions, along with celebrating for our individual wins. Everyone will know and feel that there will always be a helping hand, words of advice or just a friendly smile when needed. 

  

“Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.” – Ecclesiastes 4:9-10  

“Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing”- Thessalonians 5:11 

  

 English 

In our first half term we will be using the text 'Arthur and the Golden Rope’ by Joe Todd-Stanton to develop our writing skills. We will work on descriptive setting pieces, character descriptions, and poetry. We will end the half term, with an independent piece based on the children creating their own myth including their own hero and villain or monster.  

 

In our second half term, we will be using the text ‘The Darkest Dark’ by Chris Hadfield to develop our writing skills. We will work on writing a short story, setting description, character description, whilst developing use of new and varied punctuation. Our final independent piece will be based on writing a biography of Chris Hadfield. 

  

 

 

 

 Spelling 

We will continue to use Pathways to Spell as part of our English lessons to develop spelling strategies and learn spelling rules, as well as the Y5/6 common exception words. 

  

Maths 

We are continuing to use and follow White Rose Maths. During the Spring term, year 5 will focus on fractions, decimals, percentages, decimals and perimeter and area. Year 6 will focus on fractions, ratio, algebra, fractions, decimals, percentages, area, perimeter, and volume. 

As mathematicians, the children will learn through concrete experiences moving onto pictorial and abstract methods as their confidence builds. They will also be expected to use their learning to reason about maths and solve problems.  

  

Science 

For this term we are focusing on animals including humans, including the circulatory system. As scientists, we aim to develop our knowledge and understanding, scientific skills and measuring and recording abilities. 

  

History and Geography 

As historians, our main question is ‘What are the countries that make up Europe?’  

Throughout our work we will look at what is the same and what is different. We will 

focus on locating countries using maps, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, and looking into major cities. 

 

 RE 

For RE we will continue to use the Questful RE planning.  

For the first half term we will be focusing on the big question of ‘Why do Christians believe Jesus was a great teacher?’. 

During the second half term we will focus on ‘Who was Jesus?’. 

    

Art 

As artists, we will be focusing on artwork from around Europe, to link with our geography work. 

  

DT 

As designers, we will be focusing on cooking. We will learn new skills whilst ending with some delicious food. 

  

PHSE 

For the first half term, we are going to be focusing on Global diversity and discrimination  

For the second half term, we are going to be focusing on British Values. 

We will also have focused time on our British Values: democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs as well as the nine protected characteristics. 

  

Music 

As musicians, we will be using Charanga to explore musical styles and different sounds. 

  

MFL 

As linguists, we will continue to have Madame Carter on Tuesday morning to deliver our French lessons. 

 

Homework

Homework will be sent out on Friday to be returned on or before the following Wednesday.  We expect each piece to take about 20 minutes.  Please come and see us if there are any difficulties or write a note on the piece of work.

 

General information

• Please tie up long hair.
• Please have a bottle of water at school every day. This can be refilled as necessary.
• Please bring a small school bag.
• Please return your homework book on or before Wednesday for marking. Homework will be sent out on a Friday.
• All school uniform needs to be named but particularly jumpers and cardigans. 

PE is timetabled for Wednesday afternoons and will be outside whenever possible. In cold weather, please add a jumper, trousers and gloves as we will still go outside. Should it be sunny, please add sun hats and suncream if needed.

 

Possible trips & visitors

Following the success of last year's residential we are going to Robinwood, Todmorden for a 2 night trip in June in a joint adventure with the Barn Owls. Details to follow shortly.

We will be looking into further visits throughout the year linking to our curriculum.