Year 5 – Miss Welsh, Miss Riley (5WR) & Mrs Atar (5A)

Welcome to Year 5

A huge warm welcome to our year group page.

Our Year 5 team consists of Miss Welsh and Miss Riley (Class 5WR) and Mrs Atar (Class 5A).  During morning sessions, your child may be taught by one of our team for maths and English.  Afternoon sessions are taught in class groups.

During our first weeks back at school, we have spent lots of time settling back into school life and re-establishing our school routines and ensuring everyone feels happy and settled in their new classroom environment.

Each morning, the children are welcomed into a calm environment where time is given to check in with each child and the children also have the opportunity to read.

Parent Partnership is very important to us and we are contactable at school to answer any questions or help you with any concerns or queries you may have. This can be at the end of the school day once all the children have been dismissed or via the school office.

We live out our school vision of being ‘Vibrant, Loving and Proud’ and do this by taking on extra responsibilities.  Members of our class are Anti-Bullying ambassadors, School councillors, Eco warriors, Science ambassadors and Junior Road Safety Officers!  As a class, we aim to embrace a growth mind-set and advocate for practice enabling progress.

Reading

Our first lesson each day is Reading. We have a formal reading lesson Monday – Thursday and our weekly homework supports this too.  The expectation is that your child will read at home independently for 15 minutes daily.  This is monitored and regular reading at home is rewarded with our whole school reading owl system.

 Reading diaries are collected in every Friday morning and individual reads are counted up.

 Whole school reading owl system

25 – bronze

30 – silver

35 – gold

 We are currently reading ‘Danny the Champion of the World’ By Roald Dahl

Maths

 We are currently focussing on revisiting and consolidation of times tables.  These are vital for our maths lessons. 

 This term, we will be working on place value which includes reading and writing numbers up to 1 million. 

We will also be working on our addition and subtraction, and multiplication and division.  These are examples of the methods we use:

Addition

Subtraction

Multiplication

Division

Writing

 We love to write in Year 5 and will be aiming to improve the content and cohesion of our written work and become more proficient at editing and polishing our work to the highest standard.

 As ever, we continue to focus on handwriting and spelling on a daily basis.  The spelling word list for Year 5 and 6 can be found below. 

https://cdn.oxfordowl.co.uk/2019/08/29/13/56/09/5a42eb6a-f57f-4dc4-a66e-bd4c5e27e4b7/SpellingWordList_Y5-6.pdf

 Children in Year 5 are expected to write in a fountain pen.  Their first fountain pen is gifted from the school to the child.  Any required replacements can be purchased from the school office at a cost of £1.40.

Our afternoon sesions 

PE Days

Our PE days are on a Monday and Thursday this term so please can you ensure your child comes into school wearing their PE kits on these days. Over the colder months, it is advisable that this includes jogging bottoms and a school hoody. 

 Homework

• Reading homework – given out Monday and due in Wednesday
• Maths homework – given out Tuesday and due in Thursday

 History-The Industrialisation of the North West

This half term we will be finding out about what the Industrial Revolution was and how Widnes changed as a result.

 Trip to Quarry Bank Mill – Tuesday 22^nd September.

Science- Earth and Space

Our science topic this half term is Earth and Space and we will be finding out about what the Solar System is, why we have night and day and why the Moon changes shape.

 SMSC- RE- Christianity God

This half term we will be finding out about why it is sometimes difficult to do the right thing.

 Design Technology -Structures

This half term we will be finding out about what frame structures are and when are they used. We will be looking at how frame structures are assembled and how can they be reinforced.

Art – Escher

This half term we will be finding out about the life and work of Escher and creating our own in art in his style.

Y5 Residential

 ** Year 5 will be going on their annual residential trip to Robinwood in February.  Dates and payment plans have already been shared with parents and a parents meeting will be held closer to the time.**

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