Year 5
Key Information
Welcome to the Year 5 class page.
Class Teachers
5VP - Mrs Peach
5KH - Miss Hunter
Learning Facilitators
Mr Wilkins
Mrs Wright (1:1 support)
PE days: Tuesday and Wednesday
Kit consists of black shorts or joggers and a white or black plain t shirt. If needed children can also wear their school, black hoody. These should be plain without logos.
Children also take part in swimming in the Spring and Summer term on a Wednesday, with each class alternating each half term. Children require a swimming costume (no bikinis) or swimming trunks/shorts, goggles and swim cap if necessary, and a towel.
Home Learning
Homework will consist of a reading comprehension, maths linked to the week's learning and spellings. Weekly spellings will be sent home on Monday via SeeSaw and children will be tested that Friday. Maths and Reading will be online using the Learning By Questions website. Children will have individual codes to login to the tasks. They will have a due date assigned to them.
Home Reading - Reading expectation is that children are heard read at home at least 3 times a week, and the reading diary to be dated and signed by an adult, stating which pages the child has read.
Newsletters
Book Club
Book Club replaces Guided Reading. Each week, children will listen to or read parts of the book and then have tasks related to what they have read, be it retrieval of facts, vocabulary work or summarising events. We hope the children will enjoy these sessions and gain comprehension skills to work more independently.
This term our text is Cogheart by Peter Bunzl.
Autumn 1 English - Writing will be based on the text 'The Man Who Walked Between The Towers' by Mordicai Gerstein
Topics for the year
Autumn 1 - Under Our Feet
This is a geography topic exploring the earth and what really is going on under our feet. The unit focuses primarily on earthquakes and volcanoes, giving children opportunities to understand the different layers of the earth and how volcanoes and earthquakes are caused.