Year 5
Key Information
Welcome to the Year 5 class page.
Class Teachers
5VP - Mrs Peach
5KH - Miss Hunter
Learning Facilitators
Miss Flynn
Mrs Wright (1:1 support)
PE days: Tuesday and Wednesday
Kit consists of black shorts or joggers and a white or black plain t shirt. If needed children can also wear their school, black hoody. These should be plain without logos.
This term, children will now take part in swimming until the end of the Summer term on a Wednesday, with each class alternating each half term. 5VP will start swimming in Spring 1 for 6 weeks and then will change to 5KH for the next 6 weeks. Children require a swimming costume (no bikinis) or swimming trunks/shorts, goggles and swim cap if necessary, and a towel.
Home Learning
Maths homework will now be sent home in booklet form. Each week, the children will complete a ten minute task. Booklets will be sent home every Friday and should be back in school no later than the following Wednesday. Weekly spellings will be sent home on Monday via SeeSaw and children will be tested that Friday. Children can continue to practise their times tables on TTRockstars. There will be a weekly times table test.
Home Reading - Reading expectation is that children are heard read at home at least 3 times a week, and the reading diary to be dated and signed by an adult, stating which pages the child has read.
Book Club
Book Club replaces Guided Reading. Each week, children will listen to or read parts of the book and then have tasks related to what they have read, be it retrieval of facts, vocabulary work or summarising events. We hope the children will enjoy these sessions and gain comprehension skills to work more independently.
This term, we are starting a new text: Bright Stars of British Black History
Spring 1 and Spring 2 English - Writing will be based on the text 'The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries' by J.T Williams
Topics for the year
Spring 1 and 2
Year 5 are now moving on to their Arts topic for 3 weeks, each week focussing on art, music and design technology. We start with music, looking at tempo and beats within a piece of music. We then move on to art, creating a Mayan glyph out of clay. In DT, children will make a pop-up book relating to a popular nursery rhyme.