Franklin Class - Year 5 and Year 6
Franklin Class Staff
Miss Cox – Class Teacher
Miss Stead – 1:1 Teaching Assistant
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to Franklin Class, we are a mixed age class made up of children in Year 5 and Year 6.
“Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow.” Albert Einstein
The Franklin Class team work tirelessly with the children and parents alike to ensure that everyone can make progress, enjoy their time in school and develop their love of learning so that they can achieve their full potential in our nurturing and vibrant classroom environment. We pride ourselves on giving the children exciting and unforgettable opportunities that are rewarding and challenging so that everyone can shine their light (Matthew 5: 16). We provide a gateway of discovery through our creative and diverse curriculum, with topics covered such as the Britain’s Role in WWII, the Ancient Greeks, Sustainability and Our Natural Environment, alongside all of our curriculum subjects, as we support the children on their journey to becoming global disciples who positively impact on the world around us. We pride ourselves on building resilience as our children reach near the end of their learning journey within our school. The teaching and learning in our most senior classroom will help to ensure that the children are supported to develop confidence and independence in preparation for the next chapter of their lives. Alongside supporting children to reach their academic potential, they are also given many additional responsibilities around the school to help ensure the children are ready for their transition to secondary school. Through hard work, determination, resilience and dedication to their learning the children in Franklin Class also make many happy memories, lasting friendships and develop an increased confidence to take with them on their adventures further up the school and when making that transition to their new secondary school.
Franklin Class 2024-25
Term 4 2024-25
Possibly one of our busiest terms to date, however we have had an amazing time together in Franklin Class. Yet again, our Core Values of school values of friendship, love, hope, tolerance, trust and forgiveness have been shining brightly through our children over this last term.
This term began with the beginning of Lent as we made our way down to the Village Hall for pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, an annual and very much-loved tradition here at St Bart’s. The pancakes were incredibly tasty and both children and staff thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon.
We also celebrated World Book Day 2025 which is a much-anticipated day in our school calendar. Our focus this year was based on different authors. The children visited different classrooms and completed a wide range of activities together in their classes. Franklin Class chosen book was ‘What We’ll Build’ by Oliver Jeffers. It is a beautiful tale of a father and daughter, who set about laying the foundations for their life together. Using their own special tools, they get to work; building memories to cherish, a home to keep them safe and love to keep them warm. The children used this text to build walls of kindness, fill leaves of love to build a kindness tree, design a kindness garden and create beautiful picture of love-filled, happy faces with nature around us. Performance Poetry was on the menu for the afternoon, where each class worked on a piece of poetry and performed it in groups and as a whole class. A truly wonderful day culminated in the whole school welcoming members of our family and friends into school to read with us.
The buzz for learning has once again been alive in Franklin Class, their drive and thirst to better themselves is contagious and they have really thrown themselves into many of the experiences and opportunities they have been given in lessons. Our topic – Ancient Greece – is slowly coming to an end and the children have loved learning about the legacy and significant impact the Greeks had on life today. As part of Art and Design, they have created their own Mosaics as we have delved further into Greek Art with beautiful gifts and cards for Mother’s Day.
The children have brought together their learning in English with the study of Rights and Responsibilities in PSHE as we have explored the text ‘The Day the War Came’, an inspiring text that brings to the fore the plight of refugees across today. The children have completed some beautiful pieces of artwork through text and symbolism when they explored the UNICEF Rights of a Child, and have written some beautifully empathic letters to a number of important people in society to drive change and support, include and accept every child in the world that we live in. We hope to display these at the Church throughout the Flower Festival, which runs from 30th April at St Bartholomew’s Church.
Across the curriculum, the children have learnt about databases in computing both on paper and on laptops, learned how to play and pass the ball in rugby using the expertise of some of our classmates and have developed a greater appreciation of Jesus and his role in the world around us.
On behalf of the Franklin Class Team, I would like to wish you all a happy and peaceful Easter.
Miss Cox, Mrs Edwards and Miss Stead
Term 3 2024-25
Using Crumbles in computing lessons.
We have had another amazing term in Franklin Class!
The children have created some of the most thought-provoking dance sequences as part of their unit, Anti-Bullying. British Sign Language was brought in and taught to the class by two fabulous children once the class had chosen the appropriate music, ‘Fight Song’, to fit. Watching the children incorporate dance and sign language has been truly inspiring, as they were also able to make reference to their learning in PSHE on Diversity and Inclusion.
Maths and English have once again been a huge focus of our attention with fractions, percentages and decimals studied by all with specific learning focuses for Year 5 and Year 6. In English, we went on an adventure to the southern most part of the globe with Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance. The trials and tribulations of their expedition have been studied and the children have responded in the form of detailed diary entries, journals and dialogues expressing concern. Thankfully every man on the mission survived and eventually returned to home once the rescue mission had taken place.
We were also lucky enough to be visited by Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service, who provided a comprehensive and clear workshop for the children about fire safety at home, with a particular focus on devices as these are such a huge part of the lives of many children today. Both children and staff were thoroughly engrossed during the session and there were many suggestions offered to support the children at home and keep them safe.
The children have worked their socks off as they delved deep into the realms of life in Ancient Greece. We have learnt about the different stated and cities and debated whether Athens was a better place to live than Ancient Sparta. This exploration linked perfectly to DT unit on cooking. The children have researched traditional Greek dishes, and the culmination of our learning was making moussaka together, a new dish that the children had not tried before. The children truly shone as they worked collaboratively to chop, weigh, measure and cook ingredients before piecing together the final dishes.
Term 2 2024-25
The children have delved deeper into our study of World War II and have been resilient when collating sources to inform us about specific events that occurred during the war and the role men and women played. They were lucky enough to welcome Zoe, an expert, from the National Holocaust Memorial Centre to Franklin Class. The highly successful outreach programme brought a touring version of ‘The Journey’ to our very own classroom and provided the children with an immersive learning experience where they followed the story of a 10-year-old Jewish boy from Nazi Germany in 1938 to safety in England via the Kindertransport. What a wonderfully subtle way to investigate the impact the Nazi’s had on Jewish people across Europe. The children posed questions, shared theories and investigated thoroughly the entire afternoon. This exploration linked perfectly to our study of Judaism in RE and brought to life the struggles faced by many Jewish people.
The children have truly shone this term, as they designed and created their very own tote bags having studied Batik. We would like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Thorley and Mrs Knight for working with small groups of children to help bring these beautiful creations to life.