Welcome to Year 5

Welcome to Year 5!
 
 Our class teachers are Mrs Kennedy and Mrs Pimperton (Wednesday). Mrs Sainsbury is our Teaching Assistant and Mrs Edwards teaches us ICT.
 
Our topic this half-term is Eastern Europe in geography and Properties of Materials in science. Keep an eye on our Class News page to see examples of what we get up to and learn.
We have indoor PE on Thursday and Outdoor Forest Schools on Monday but like everyone to have their PE kit in school all week. Earrings and watches must be removed for all PE lessons.
 
This half-term we are learning to dance.
 
Pencil cases are allowed with HB pencils and blue pens (not biro) - a blue Frixion pen is beneficial but not required. All stationery is provided.
 
Water bottles are kept on tables so please use a bottle with a sports cap filled only with water.
Mrs Lynne Kennedy

Class Teacher

Mrs Rachel Pimperton

Class Teacher (Wednesday)

Mrs Jenny Sainsbury

Teaching Assistant

Each week we have key areas to focus on for homework to help and support the work we do in school:
 
1) Times Tables Rock Stars helps us to learn and improve our multiplication knowledge and we should do this for at least 30 minutes over the week.
 
2) Reading our book aloud to an adult and discussing its content really helps us to understand the meaning and messages within them. Learning the definitions of new words and following a grammatically correct structure helps us to improve our writing skills as well. We should read at least 3 times per week for a minimum of 15 minutes each time to gain the best results.
 
3) Other homework is set weekly - it is set on a Tuesday and needs to be completed for the following Monday.
 
4) Spellings are set on a Wednesday and it is possible to practise the words at home through the Spelling Shed website.