Above you will see just a small selection of some of the excellent work Year 5 have been producing at home. What superstars!

Welcome to Year 5

Our delightful Year 5 cohort is divided into three classes: Edinburgh, Dublin and Sheffield.

The Year 5 teachers are: Mr Bland, Mrs. Waite, Miss Armstrong, Mrs. Roberts and Mr. Wood.

The Year 5 support staff are: Miss Clark, Mr. Hill and Mrs. Ault.

We’ve missed having our whole classes together, and seeing their happy, smiling faces every morning.

We have planned some very exciting lessons, themed days and events to support their learning up until we break up for summer, and we can’t wait to get stuck in!

For the remaining four weeks of the Spring Term, we shall continue with our ‘Journeys’ topic which is all about Space. After Easter, our new topic will be ‘Origins: Victorian Langley Mill’.

When they return on Monday, you’ll be pleased to know that we have reverted back to having TWO PE lessons per week.

PE days are as follows:

Dublin: Monday and Wednesday

Edinburgh: Monday and Friday

Sheffield: Wednesday and Friday

A reminder about uniform and PE Kit: We know that some of the children will have grown and without all the shops open there may be some challenges with providing correct full uniform at the moment. We understand this but can we please ask that you ensure your child’s uniform is as close to normal as possible. You may want to layer up under the jumpers on colder days as again, we will have the windows open for ventilation. We do have some spare clean, pre-loved uniform in school. If you could make use of this uniform, please contact Mrs Naylor.

Our uniform is:

Black or grey trousers, skirts or pinafores.

White or royal blue polo shirt or shirt.

Royal blue cardigan, jumper or fleece.

Black shoes.

Hair tied up.

PE kit:

Black, navy or grey shorts or joggers weather dependent.

White plain t-shirt

Trainers that support your child’s feet for sport.

School jumper/cardigan or dark plain jumper.

No jewellery on PE days please.

Many thanks once again for your unfaltering support,

The Year 5 Team.

Click here for the full details of your Hidden Figures home learning project: Hidden Figures Project

This project is open-ended, can be completed at any time during lockdown, and it can be adapted to suit your brilliant ideas! We can't wait to see what you produce!

What's life like in Year 5?

We use Class Dojo to communicate with families and carers, and are very proud to say that 100% of our parents are signed up to it!
We can change our reading books and library books as often as needed;
We're getting even better at reading and understanding texts because we read five times per week at home and we really enjoy our Themed Reading lessons in school;
Ask us ANY multiplication question - seriously! We love our maths lessons and get very competitive with learning and remembering our multiplication tables;
Our learning in school is supported at home through weekly spelling/grammar/punctuation/maths home learning tasks which; link to our work in class;
We come to school in our outdoor PE kits when it's PE day;
We stick to our school motto: Live, Laugh, Learn.

What are we learning?

This term, our topic is Journeys - To Boldly Go and is linked to Space and the planet we live on.

Here's an overview of our Curriculum this term:

Here is a list of the Year 5 and 6 spelling words:

RSHE:

With a renewed and passionate understanding of the importance of teaching children about relationships, health (including mental health), and social skills, we teach RSHE twice a week, and it also interlaces within most of our other subjects, class novels and class assemblies. We want all of our children to be happy, confident, well-rounded individuals.