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 2 we will be learning:

• Literacy- balanced arguments and narrative endings
• Maths - Area, measurements using mutiplicatin and division, and decimal fractions
• History – The Vikings: why did they come to the British Isles?
• Science – Earth and Space: how does the solar system move?
• DT- Mechanical systems: cam toys
• PSHE- How can friends communicate safely?
• MFL- French
• Computing- Coding
• RE- If God is everywhere, why go to places of worship?

Books we will be reading this half-term:

• Lunar- Chris Bradford
• DK edition of Space: a children's encyclopaedia 
• 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.