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Year 5

Welcome to the Year 5 class page

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We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year and are ready to get back to it in Year 5 for 2025!

The teaching team for Year 5

Miss Walker is our full time class teacher.

Mrs Questa teaches on a Wednesday afternoon.

Mr Ferguson supports us every morning.

PE days

We will teach PE on a Tuesday (indoor) and a Friday (outdoor).

Please make sure your child comes to school in their PE kit on these days and if they have long hair that it is tied back, or earrings are taken out or covered on those days.
Water bottles - Please ensure that your child brings a water bottle for the classroom, containing water only.

Homework Expectations

CPG Weekly Workouts

In Year 5, we use the CGP "10 Minute Weekly Workout" English and Maths books for our homework each week. Please ensure that children have a go at all the activities in the 10-minute test and feel free to guide them, should they need some help. PLEASE CAN YOU GO THROUGH THESE WITH YOUR CHILDREN AND MARK THEM - ANSWERS ARE IN THE BACK. We will clarify any queries that the children may have ON A FRIDAY so children MUST bring them into school on a Friday morning (this will be monitored).

TTRS

This will be used as part of the homework and we expect children to be accessing this regularly to ensure they are confident and fluent with all their multiplication and division facts. Please log in and complete your weekly assigned session in your 'garage' before playing in the other areas like soundcheck, studio, gig. A minimum of 15 minutes per week.

Spellings

Spellings form part of our homework and should be practised regularly over the week. A list of the spellings for this term and dates of the spelling tests can be found on the homework tab.

The children will have weekly spellings tests ON A FRIDAY based on spelling patterns and a list of statutory Y5/Y6 words called 'Orange words'. Following the test in class, children will record the words that they will need to learn again in their spelling log books and we ask that you continue to revise these with your child at home.

Reading

Reading forms part of our weekly homework and the children should continue to read regularly at home. Reading books can be changed on any day of the week. Please continue to record the reading on Boom Reader. You may also want to encourage your child to start to record some of their own reading on Boom Reader too.

Full details of each week's homework can be found by clicking through to the homework section below.

British Values

There are four different British Values that we will be learning about over the year.

The focus for Spring 1 is