6Gardenia 2025-26

6Gardenia Team

Mr A Gray: Class Teacher

Mrs V Thomas: Y5/6 Teaching Assistant

Mrs C Richardson: Individual Need Assistant

Mrs P Jarman: PPA Cover (PE)

Mrs R Pullinger: PPA Cover (Music)

Please feel free to contact me at the following address if you have any queries or concerns:

agray@ashdown.e-sussex.sch.uk

Class Information

PPA (Planning, preparation and assessment) time will be on Friday afternoons this term. Mrs Jarman will be teaching PE and Mrs Pullinger will be teaching Music.

PE times will be on Wednesday and Friday. Please check that your child's kit is fully labelled.

Times tables will be tested every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Please make use of:

https://ttrockstars.com/

Please record daily reading:

https://www.boomreader.co.uk/

SATs Revision Resources

These are a bank of resources that you can use as much or as little as you would like.

Regular revision in short bursts - little and often - is a really effective way to keep your mind ticking over and prepare you for your SATs in May (11th - 14th May 2026).

I have attached resources to help with your GPS (grammar, spelling and punctuation), reading, arithmetic and reasoning, but you can also buy your own resources from book shops if you prefer to use a work book. This is not intended as homework but as an opportunity to do some extra preparation if you would like to do some.

Maths

https://mathsbot.com/primary/ks2

https://www.satspapers.org.uk/Page.aspx?TId=5

Reading

GPS

PGL Windmill Hill

pgl 2025 website.pdf

6Gardenia 2025-2026

Current Learning

Our topic for Term 3 is: "How human decisions affect the world."

We will be investigating the use and misuse of the Earth’s resources. Children will research environmental issues focusing on climate change and global warming. They will ask questions to determine what these issues are and how they are being addressed. Using satellite images, children will view the hole in the Ozone over Antarctica and consider the implications for future generations.

We will also be learning about evolution and inheritance, focusing on the formation of fossils and what they can tell us about organisms from the past. We will then move on to evolution and consider how animals and plants have adapted to various environments before finishing this unit by studying inheritance and how certain traits and characteristics can be passed from parents to offspring.

A most exciting event will also be taking place 3rd February, where we will be visited by an artist specialising in mixed media collage. She will be demonstrating how to tie-dye and then we will all get the opportunity to dye our own surrealistic designs onto T Shirts.

I would encourage you to look at the following links to prepare you for the upcoming term:

term 3.pdf