Year 5
Welcome to Year 5!
We are delighted to help your child on their journey through the engaging and challenging Year 5 curriculum.
In Year 5, we love reading! Stories, poems and factual texts help to increase a child’s knowledge of vocabulary, their ability to comprehend and help them to write their own imaginative pieces of work. Please listen to your child read regularly, even just one page of their reading book, and talk to them about what they have read and any words that they found challenging.
Every week, pupils will be given homework on Purple Mash to continue their learning experiences beyond the classroom. Please help to ensure that your child completes this homework byTuesday. The children also have access to TT Rockstars to continue practising their times tables. It is very helpful for their learning if they practice their times tables so that they know the answers quickly. If there are any issues regarding homework, or your child finds a particular piece of homework challenging, then please do not hesitate to speak to us.
We teach PE on Mondays. Please make sure that your child comes to school in the appropriate PE kit for the weather to keep them warm. It is very important that they have appropriate footwear for PE outside – like trainers or pumps.
We look forward to helping your child thrive as an independent learner. If you have any questions, please get in touch.
Macbeth- play in a day
Date: 26/03/2017
After watching Year 6 perform their play in a day on Friday, we were very excited to be having a go ourselves. Today was the day! We followed in their footsteps by putting on the play of Macbeth, one we…
Zoolab attendance incentive
Date: 24/03/2017
Today, 20 of our class went to the community room to have their treat for having 100% attendance for the last 3 weeks. Once in the community room, Caz, from Zoolab, told us all about the different animals…
Rainforest research
Date: 13/03/2017
Today, Year 5 started a new project as part of their topic work. They will be researching the different animals of the rainforests around the world. They will be using these to create a fact file of the…
World book day with Year 2
Date: 02/03/2017
Wow, we have had a fantastic World Book Day 2017! The day started with us all going to the hall to show off the wonderful costumes we were wearing. Even the teachers got involved! Once we had shown off…
Disaster Day
Date: 09/01/2017
On Monday, Year 5 and 6 were welcomed with the devastating news that a severe flood had occurred over the weekend and their role was to be a volunteer for The Red Cross. Straight after registration, they…
Christmas time!
Date: 15/12/2016
We've had a very busy few weeks in Year 5. Last week, we had a visit from David who works to promote Fairtrade. We learnt all about how Fairtrade works, especially how each person in the production line…
Sam the dog comes to visit
Date: 25/11/2016
For the first time this academic year, Sam the Dog has been to Year 5. This is because we had the best attendance in school last week. He joined us for all sorts of exciting activities. We have been working…
Angles, angles everywhere!
Date: 18/11/2016
On Tuesday morning, we learnt how to measure large angles in our playground. On Monday we measured angles on paper using a protractor, but Mr Smith challenged us to measure angles on the trim trail. However,…
Going on a leaf hunt...
Date: 21/10/2016
On Friday 21st October, Mr Smith's Maths set went outside to do an investigation, using leaves. The school playground has plenty of fallen leaves, so we went to collect some. Once we had collected them…
