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 Autumn 1 we will be learning:

• Literacy- Writing poetry based on ‘The Promise’ and writing a narrative opening and a Non-Chronological Report based on ‘Beowulf.
• Maths - Place Value - decimals including tenths and hundredths
• History – Black History Month- Performing Arts
• Geography- Is living in Devon the same as living in Northwest England?
• Science - Properties of materials.
• Art- Drawing techniques and 3D clay sculptures.
• PSHE- What makes up our identity?
• MFL- French
• Computing- Coding
• RE- What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain today?
• PE- gymnastics and hockey

Books we will be reading this half-term:

• The Promise- Nicola Davies
• Beowulf- Michael Morpurgo
• Rhythm and Poetry- Karl Nova

Things to remember:

• PE days:

5D - Tuesday and Thursday

5HW - Tuesday and Thursday

5TS - Tuesday and Thursday

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.

Homework:

Please have a look at the weekly homework blog below.  This is updated every week.

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.