Welcome to Year 5!

Staffing:

There are 3 classes in Year 5:

5D- Mr Daly

5HW- Mr Hutchinson and Mrs Wright

5TS- Ms Tang and Miss Salt

Also working in our year group are Mr Tawil, Ms Marina and Ms Guinanne. 

In Spring 1 we will be learning:

• Literacy- recount (and blog entries) and explanation texts
• Maths - link area of rectangles to multiplication, compare and describe measurement using multiplication/division and calculating with decimal fractions
• Geography – Earthquakes
• Science – Materials: reversible and irreversible changes
• Art- colour and self portraits
• PSHE- How can we help in an accident?
• MFL- French
• Computing- Spreadsheets
• RE- Why do some people believe God exists or not?

Books we will be reading this half-term:

• Against the odds- Alistair Humphreys
• Rabbits- Shaun Tan
• Varmints- Helen Ward

Things to remember:

• PE days:

5D - Tuesday and Wednesday

5HW - Tuesday and Thursday

5TS - Wednesday and Friday

On PE days the children need to come to school in suitable PE clothes (white t-shirt, black shorts/leggings/jogging bottoms) and trainers. They can wear their usual school jumper and cardigan over their PE clothes.

• Bring a reusuable water bottle every day
• No jewellery is to be worn to school other than stud earrings.

Separate emails will be sent to 5TS regarding swimming sessions.

Homework:

Please have a look at the weekly homework blog below.  This is updated every week.  Children can also log in to the pupil section of Oak Academy for maths and access Reading Plus at home.

We always encourage home learning if the children want to explore our topics further in their own time and love seeing their work!  

Book bags:

Please bring a book bag into school every day.  The children will be given a reading record and two books (one colour banded book and a reading for pleasure book).  It is expected that the book bag, reading record and reading books are brought into school every day.  We expect children to read their book to an adult at home at least 3 times per week- this needs to be recorded in their reading record. 

Year 5 will change their reading books weekly.