Class 17

Class 17 - Year 5

Class Teacher: Mrs Edwards
Class Learning Assistant: Mrs Jackson and Miss Proctor

Welcome to Class 17.

Welcome to Year 5, we hope you had a lovely summer break and are all revitalised for our autumn 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 autumn term the topic will be "Ancient Greece", a  history and geography based topic that allows the children to explore the myths of Ancient Greece, the many City States, Gods and Goddesses and a comparison of the modern Greek islands with the UK.

Year 5 will also be reading the book 'Who Let the Gods Out', where we will follow Elliott on his adventures with Virgo. We will be focusing on this in English and it will tie in with all of our learning. 
 

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 Thursdays and Fridays. 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 15 Biweekly spellings and a test at the end of the second week. The spellings will be given out on a Monday and the test will be the Friday of the second week. On a Friday, you will be given a maths homework sheet to be completed and returned the next Tuesday, in order to go through the answers as a class. 

We look forward to starting our new year together.