Welcome to Year 5 - Class Page - Autumn Term 1

We are very excited for the start of the new school year and are looking forward to working with you to achieve the best that we can.  This half-term our topics are:

Wales in Geography and Properties of materials in Science.

The book we will be reading is 'The Clockwork Crow'.  We will occasionally send home projects based on these areas of learning - please look out for them!

Homework will be set on Google Classroom.  It will be posted on Friday with the expectation that it is returned by the following Wednesday.

The children also have 'Reading Eggs' and 'Mathletics' logons.  Children should be spending around 20-30 minutes a day on each of these programmes.

Reading records should be filled in daily by children, there is no expectation for parents to sign these.  School uniform (red school jumper, grey trousers / skirts; red checked Summer dress or grey shorts and red / white t-shirts in the Summer) should be worn every day, including BLACK shoes or trainers.  No tracksuit bottoms or leggings are allowed.

Our PE days are Monday (pm) and Friday (am).  The PE kit (black bottoms and a plain white t-shirt) should be brought in a bag ready to change into.  Children should NOT be wearing their PE kits under their school uniforms.  On Friday morning, children can come to school in their PE kits, with their school uniforms in their bags.

We have trips to The Science Museum (2nd October) and The British Museum (planned for November / December), please keep checking for the dates.  Our first Reading Cafe is 16th September in the school hall.  We have a Parent / Carer meeting for all Year 5 Parents / Carers in the Year 5 classroom at 3:30pm on 17th September.  We look forward to meeting you all then.

We have a 'soft start' form 8:45am Tuesday - Friday.  Please encourage your child to attend this as it is a chance to address any misconceptions from the day before and ensures that we start our learning on time, promptly at 9am.  If there are any questions regarding this or any aspect of your child's learning or welfare, please make an appointment to see us.

The Year 5 Teaching Team

If you would like more information about the curriculum SPSM follows, please ask your child's class teacher.  Thank you.