Mr Richardson
Teacher 

Mrs Barnett
Learning Support Assistant

Mrs Lewis
Teacher

Mrs Horne
Learning Support Assistant

Back to School!

Year 5 have made an excellent start to the new school year. We have got stuck into our new topics and the children have adapted brilliantly to their new classrooms and routines. Well done Year 5!

Congratulations to our STAR AWARD winners for Autumn 1!

Week 1: Finley in 5L and

Week 2: Freya in 5L and

Week 3:

Week 4:

Week 5:

Week 6:

Week 7:

English

 During the Autumn term, Year 5 will be reading the book Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick. They have already made an excellent start to their learning.

We will be continuing to use our whole-school approach of 'I am a clever writer' and focussing upon new key skills each week.

English homework each week will have a Grammar focus. 

Science

Our Big Question for Science this half term is 'Are all changes reversible?'. We will be looking at states of matter, reversible and irreversible changes and the properties of materials. We will be investigating dissolving, magnetism and thermal conductors in our practical lessons. 

Maths

 We have started the Autumn Term by consolidating our understanding of Place Value. We have been practising representing and partitioning numbers, and have also spent some time learning how to read very large numbers. We will then move on to look at the four operations in our Maths lessons.

Every lesson in Maths starts with our '6 a-day' questions which gives children chance to practice their arithmetic skills.

We are encouraging children to increase the fluency of their mental arithmetic skills by playing Times Tables Rockstars and taking part in our 99 club. All children have logins for TTRockstars so please encourage your children to play at home!

RE / PSHE

PE

PE is every Thursday afternoon. Please ensure that children come to school in appropriate PE kit and please ask children with ear piercings to remove these, along with any other jewellery, on PE days.

Curriculum

Our Big Question for the Autumn Term is 'Why do Natural Disasters happen?'.

We will be learning about plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis as well as other Natural Disasters, along with their causes and effects.

Homework

Homework will be set every Friday.There will be one maths and one English homework for the children to complete each week. We ask for these to be back in school by the following Wednesday. 

Children who have not completed their homework or those who require support will be invited to complete their homework in school on Thursdays.

Children are also expected to read at home to an adult at least once a week. 

Please see the Y5&6 statutory spelling list below which the children can also practise.