Class 16 - Year 5

Class Teachers: Mr Davies
Class Learning Assistant: Miss Proctor and Mrs Summerfield

Welcome to Class 16.

Welcome back to Year 5. We hope you had a lovely Easter break and are all revitalised for our Summer term. To make sure that everything runs smoothly and that the children settle back into their learning easily, here is the information you will need. 

Over this Summer term, the topics will be "Summit to Sea", which is a geography and science topic. We will be identifying the effects of water resistance and learning about the water cycle. Additionally, we will be learning about the main features of rivers and mountains as well as understanding how rivers affect human geography. After Half Term, our topic will be ‘Invaders and Settlers’, a history topic, where we will examine why Britain was invaded and settled and how the Saxons and Vikings have shaped the story of our country.

Year 5 will also be reading the book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, where we will follow Harry Potter’s journey through his first year at Hogwarts. The story will be a brilliant inspiration for creative writing through a range of activities such as letter writing, newspaper reports, as well as consolidating their skills at describing characters and setting. As their journey in year 5 continues, the children will be taking on greater opportunities for independent learning in lessons, as well as enhancing vital spelling, grammar, and punctuation skills.

In Maths, we will be enhancing our knowledge of place value, focusing on decimal places. In addition to this, we will be looking at the relationship between decimals, fractions and percentages. We will continue to consolidate our learning about angles at a point and through turns in multiples of 90. We will use all four operations involving measure – length, mass volume, time and money, including decimal notation. As well as all of this, we will continue to learn about the properties of shape, handle statistics and interpret tables, charts and timetables.

What to Bring to School

Please take the time to label ALL belongings, such as lunchboxes, water bottles, jumpers etc. As we are a healthy school, we do ask the children have water only in the classrooms. At break time, the children can have a healthy snack of fruit or vegetables. WE ARE A NO NUTS SCHOOL. All other equipment will be provided. Please leave pencil cases at home to enjoy when you get home.

PE

PE will be on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Just a reminder that our PE kit consists of red shorts, white top and trainers. Black joggers and a black sweatshirt or hoodie are great for when it is colder, especially as PE is always outdoors.

Home School Diaries

Your Home School Diary needs to be in school every day as it contains the login details you need for some of our wonderful online resources. It will be used to record your biweekly spellings as well as the reading you do at home 4x a week.

As reading is so important, we ask that parents listen to the children read at least four times a week to encourage a love of books as well as supporting them with spellings that they bring home. When you listen to your children read, this can be recorded in their Home School Diary and will count towards reading certificates which are awarded in order to celebrate their progress.

We look forward to continuing a really good partnership between home and school. To further this, there are lots of certificates to be earned for reading at home and any other achievements. Please check their bags and look forward to your children bringing home lots of certificates!

Homework

Your homework consists of:

-Regular reading – at least 4 times a week

-Regular times table practise – this can also be completed on TT Rockstars

-15 Biweekly spellings (or 10 weekly spellings for shorter units)

For biweekly spellings, the spellings will be given out on a Monday and the test will be on the Friday of the second week. For weekly spellings, spellings will be given out on Monday and tested on the Friday of the same week.

Please have a look at the ‘Homework Pro forma’ below for more information.

We are looking forward to the new term. If you have any questions, please feel free to discuss them with your class teacher.