Welcome to Year 5!

Class Teachers: Mr Johnson and Miss Miles

Additional Teaching Staff: Mrs Kenny, Mr Minei and Mrs Talmage

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Arthurs and Mrs Menella

Spring 1

PE

This half term, our PE lessons will be on Mondays and Wednesdays. 

Spellings

This term, spellings will be set each Tuesday to be tested the following week. Spelling activities will be available electronically on The Spelling Shed, where your child can access a range of activities. They should aim to complete at least 5 Spelling Shed activities each week. Spellings can also be practised using a range of handwritten methods, such as:

- Look, Cover, Write Check
 

- Rainbow Writing  e.g. actual actual actual actual actual 
 

- Waterfall Writing 

e.g. 

a

ac

act

actu

actua

actual

The Spelling Shed can be accessed using the following link

https://www.edshed.com/en-gb/login 

Times Tables

Every Tuesday, we will practise our times tables in the Times Tables Mountain Challenge. We will stick the results in the reading diary for you to review, so please remind your child to bring their reading diary for this day.

The levels progress as follows:

Mountain 1 (Elbrus) 
x10
x2
x5
x10 x2 x5 
 

Mountain 2 (Kilimanjaro) 
x4
x8
x3
x3  x4  x8
 

Mountain 3 (Aconcagua) 

x6

x9

x11

x6  x9  x11

x2  x3  x4  x5  x6

Mountain 4 (Everest) 

x12

x7

All times tables

Division and multiplication facts up to 12 x 12 

Times tables should be practised daily at home. Lots of games can be found on the the websites www.topmarks.co.uk and www.timestables.co.uk.

Reading 

This year, we have introduced a new reading system across the school called Accelerated Reader. This exciting way of reading allows your child to quiz on the books they have read using their unique log in. Once they have quizzed once in school, they can log in to their account and quiz at home using the link below. 

https://ukhosted79.renlearn.co.uk/6700951/default.aspx

If you have books at home or from the local library, you can check whether they are on the AR system and the reading level of the book using the following link: www.arbookfind.co.uk.

Your child should aim to read at least 5 times a week for 20-30 minutes.

Home learning 

For home learning this half term, we ask that your child completes at least 5 activities, due the week beginning 20th February, so that learning can be shared. The English, Maths and RE tasks are compulsory, but your child may choose any combination of the remaining activities. 

We can't wait to see how you get on!

Autumn 2

Welcome back! We hope you had a lovely half term!

Miss Miles enjoyed visiting our link school in Cadiz over the holiday and the children there were very excited to receive the postcards we wrote. We look forward to getting their replies.

See below for information regarding learning that we are doing in school this half term, as well as home learning. 

Autumn 1

Welcome to Year 5! We hope you enjoyed a lovely summer break! Below you will find useful information for the year about our learning, timetable and home learning.