Welcome to Year 4/5 Mars Class

Teacher: Mr McBurnie 

Welcome to Year 4/5 Jupiter 

Teacher: Mrs Chard 

Welcome to Year 4/5 Saturn Class

Teacher: Miss Little 

Enrichment Planner and Cultural Capital 2026-2027

Enrichment Cafés

Bringing Learning to Life

At Willen Primary School, we believe that learning should be exciting, memorable and connected to the world around us. Our Enrichment Cafés are a special opportunity for children to share experiences with their peers.  Our enrichment programme is built around our Enrichment Framework, which ensures that children experience a rich and varied range of opportunities that extend beyond the classroom.

Our Enrichment Framework

Our experiences are carefully planned across key areas:

🎨 Arts and Culture
Developing creativity and imagination through music, art, drama, performance, literature and opportunities to explore different cultures and traditions.

🌿 Nature and Adventure
Giving children opportunities to explore the natural world, develop an appreciation for our environment and experience adventure, discovery and the great outdoors.

🏘️ Civic and Community
Helping children understand their place within their community and the wider world, developing responsibility, citizenship, inclusion and a sense of belonging.

⚽ Sport and Physical
Providing opportunities for children to be active, develop physical skills, work collaboratively and experience the benefits of sport, movement and physical activity.

🚀 Life and Future Skills
Equipping children with the knowledge, skills and confidence they need for life beyond primary school, including independence, communication, teamwork, problem-solving, resilience and exploring future opportunities.

Children from different year groups will have opportunities to learn and take part together, with activities designed to be accessible to children from Reception through to Year 6.

We have carefully planned our enrichment calendar to ensure that our children experience a broad and varied range of opportunities throughout the year, helping them to build confidence, curiosity and a love of learning.

We are really looking forward to seeing the children get stuck in, try something new and discover their own interests and talents!

 Enrichment Planner 2026-27

Remote Learning/Covid-19

For details of our contingency plans should your child's class need to close, please click below:

Information for Parents; Remote Learning

WPS Contingency Planning

For children self-isolating at home, we highly recommend the National Oak Academy for curriculum based learning. This can be accessed HERE.

 Google Classrooms is our chosen platform for Remote Education. This can be accessed here (you'll need the class address and password!:

 Google Classroom

Knowledge and Skills Progression 

These documents show what your child should achieve in Reading, Writing and Maths by the end of the year. 

 Knowledge and Skills Progression Writing

Knowledge and Skills Progression Reading

 Knowledge and Skills Progression Maths

Comes out: FRIDAY

Due back in: FRIDAY

Reading: We ask that all children and their families aspire to reading their school book OR any other appropriate texts a MINIMUM of three times a week. Please log all reading experiences in the Reading Records. Reading Records are checked every FRIDAY in Mars and Saturn and Monday in Jupiter and children are rewarded accordingly.  Thank you.

The bookmark below gives you some ideas of questions you could ask your child as you hear them read. 

Year 4 Reading Book mark

Year 5 Reading Book mark

PE

Our two sessions of PE are on TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY for Mars and Jupiter and TUESDAY and THURSDAY for Saturn

Curriculum Information 2026-2027

Please click on the link below to view an overview of your child's learning journey this term.

Year 4/5 Road Map

 

Knowledge Organisers 

The following link will take you to the Knowledge Organisers that your child will be using to guide their learning over the coming term.

Term 1 Knowledge Organisers

 


 

Other Useful Information/Links

Click on the link below to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account. Times Tables Rockstars