Welcome to Year 5 JW

Mrs J Waudby – Class Teacher

Mrs K Oldfield – Teaching Assistant

Start time: 8.45am

End time: 3.30pm

PE:

Tuesday (Outdoor) Children come to school dressed in their PE kits.

Thursday (Indoor) Children come to school dressed in their PE kits.

PE Kit

  • White t-shirt
  • Navy blue shorts
  • Trainers (any colour) or plimsolls
  • Plain black, navy or grey jogging bottoms t-shirt, shorts and trainers.

Movement Break

Every day, we take part in a movement break which includes activities such as: skipping, ball skills, outdoor gym, trim trail and the daily mile.

Reading

Reading is tremendously important to learning in school and is a fantastic life skill. The school use the Accelerated Reader scheme and all children are heard read by an adult at least once every week. It is extremely important children bring their reading books in every day. Children also have access to our class and school libraries to enjoy a variety of texts.

Homework

In Year 5, homework consists of reading, times tables and spellings. I may leave other tasks to complete throughout the year on Google Classroom.

Children should read every day at home for 10/15 minutes. Reading books are to be brought back into school daily.

Spellings are learnt in school over the week and are available on Spelling Shed for pupils to learn at home. Children should play at least 3 games every day at home. Children who do this will be rewarded with stamps and prizes.

TTRockstars is still accessible for children wanting to continue to make progress on their times tables. Weekly times table quizzes are on a Friday.

Codes for TTRS and Spelling Shed can be found on the inside cover of your child’s reading diary.

Autumn topics

This Autumn, the children will be learning about:

Maths: Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division and Fractions.

English:  ‘Into the forest’ by Anthony Browne, ‘Cosmic’ by Frank Cottrell Boyce and ‘Cosmic Disco’, a collection of poems by Grace Nichols

Science: Earth and Space and Evolution and Inheritance

Geography: Brazil

Art: Photography

DT: Doodlers

Music: Blues

PSHE: Kidsafe

R.E: Local Religions and Islam

French: School

PE: Tag Rugby, Gymnastics, Basketball, Dance

Commando Joes

 

Spring topics

This Autumn, the children will be learning about:

Maths: Multiplication and Division, Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Area and Perimeter, Statistics

English:  ‘The Chocolate Tree’/ ‘The Great Kapok Tree’

Science: The Heart and Circulatory System

History: Mayans/ Local case study

Art: Make my voice heard

DT: Bridges

Music: Dynamics, pitch and texture (Fingal’s Cave)

PSHE:

R.E: How and why do people care about the environment?/ Why are Good Friday and Easter Day the most important days for Christians?

French: Food and Drink

PE: Dodgeball, Swimming, Fitness

Commando Joes

 

Respect Rules

We follow our Respect Rules in school which include:

  1. Listen to and follow instructions.
  2. Keep hands, feet and objects to ourselves.
  3. Be polite and show kindness to the whole school community.
  4. I will do my best at all times.
  5. Use appropriate school language: no name calling, teasing or bad language.

 

 

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