Welcome to Year 5!
Hello everyone! There are lots of lovely things happening this half-term so please keep an eye on our Class Dojo page and the school calendar for regular updates.
Our most exciting event will be our residential trip to How Hill (Wednesday 5th March- Friday 7th March). This is an amazing opportunity for the children to flourish in a setting outside of school and will support their development of their independence, personal skills and knowledge.
Here is some information about the weekly routine in Year 5:
PE
PE is on Thursdays. Children can come into school in their PE kits. Appropriate school PE kit must be worn, and please make sure hoodies are labelled – it’s hard (and time-consuming) to find the owners of a pile of identical unnamed tops! As the weather turns cooler, please ensure your child has warm clothes, as PE may still take place outside.
Home Learning
Reading
Hopefully, the children are reading independently for pleasure at home several times a week. Although it may seem that your child can read fluently, they should also have a weekly opportunity to read aloud to an adult. This gives them the opportunity to delve more deeply into the plot (of a fiction book) or the content (of a non-fiction book) by answering questions posed by the adult or engaging in a discussion of what they have read.
Times Table Rock Stars
By the end of Year 4, the children should have been able to answer quick-fire multiplication questions up to 12 x 12. Their ‘heat map’ should be completely green, and they hopefully scored somewhere near 25/25 on their official Multiplication Times Table check. We use times tables continuously in maths lessons in Year 5 and 6 (and they will continue to do so in high school). If your child still struggles with some tables, they need to continue accessing TTRS 3 times a week, for 5 minutes, until their heat map is green.
Spellings
We are practising spellings 3X weekly in school and I will be sending out a spellings we are practising each week. The words will come from our school spelling scheme. They will be regularly tested on the words they have learnt during the week.
Our class story: 
Let's have a busy and funfilled half term! Watch out for regular photos and videos of the children's learning on Class Dojo. If you have any worries or queries, please come and see me. I am here to listen and offer support in any way I can.
Thank you for your support,
Mrs Womack
Useful Links
Classroom Secrets
Useful website for support with home learning ideas and resources
Love Reading 4 Kids!
Useful website with access to many books
Maths Bot
Maths website with ideas for daily maths activities
Oxford Owl
Free website with hundreds of audio and e-books
Times Table Rock Stars
Online site to support times tables - please remember to play 'studio' to gain and improve your 'Rock Status'
White Rose Maths
Great website with ideas on maths lessons and resources too