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.
Stone Age Workshop.
Date: 30/11/2015
We had a great week last week and finished it in style with a stone age workshop. We did various activities to help us find out what it may have been like to live in that era.
Magistrate's Visit
Date: 17/11/2015
As part of our work in PSHE, Year 5 had a visit from a real magistrate today. The magistrate told us about her job and then gave us some 'role-play' activities to try and help us understand more about…
Arla workshop and Eid party!
Date: 05/10/2015
On Tuesday 29th September a massive inflatable classroom was spotted in the school car park. At 1pm, year 5 made their way to the car park. When they got there, one of the teachers split them in to 2 teams.…
Stars and stripes and more stars!
Date: 18/09/2015
This week, we have begun our topics on America and our solar system. We have learnt that the USA is split up into 50 different states, each with it's own rules and laws. We have looked at some of the huge…
Introduction from Mr Smith
Date: 04/09/2015
Dear parents/carers,I am writing to you to give some information about the coming term in school and the work we will be doing.Firstly, I want to thank you for the excellent start to Year 5 at Sandal…
New Topic - Apprentice 'You're Hired!'
Date: 08/06/2015
Today Year 5 and Year 6 had a launch day for our new topic Apprentice - 'You're Hired!' First we watched a short clip about Alan Sugar's Young Apprentice. Then we had a go at writing our own CVs. We…
Easter Egg Workshop Afternoon
Date: 24/03/2015
Yesterday afternoon children in Year 5 enjoyed making an Easter egg character with their family members. It was a fantastic afternoon, everyone had great fun. There were some really imaginative designs. …
Tropical Butterfly House Trip
Date: 10/03/2015
Today both Year 5 and Year 6 went to the Tropical Butterfly House in Sheffield for our recent topic, 'Under the Canopy.'There were so many different animals to see, but Year 5's favourite animal had to…
RESPECT
Date: 10/02/2015
Today we had a visit from Ash, who works for Barnsley Football Club's Education Trust. He came to give us a really interesting workshop on 'respect'. It's one of our class rules so we think it's very important.…
What utter rubbish!
Date: 07/02/2015
This week we finished our models that we designed and made from a collection of junk. To begin with Mrs Skolas asked us to split up into groups to discuss how we could use the different types of junk we'd…
