Micklem Primary School
Year 5
Welcome to Year 5! We’re so excited to have you in the class! Miss Szymkiewicz will be your class teacher and Miss Fazli will be there supporting you all week as the teaching assistant. You'll also see Mrs Potts throughout the week, and she’ll be teaching you on Wednesdays and one afternoon. It's going to be an amazing year - we can't wait to learn and grow together!
From September, PE will be on Thursday and Friday. Please ensure your child has a full Micklem PE kit, including a spare pair of appropriate trainers.
Year 5's Forest School sessions will be during the Autumn 2 and Summer 2. Forest school will take place on a Wednesday afternoon. Please ensure your child has appropriate clothing for cold/wet weather including a pair of wellies in a bag.
Homework
Please read at home with your child and record this on purple mash. The expectation is a minimum of three times a week. Children can also use spelling shed, times table rockstar and purple mash at home for extra learning.
Spelling
Your child will come home every Monday with ten spelling words. Please practise these with your child throughout the week in preparation for a spelling test the following Monday.
Please follow the links to view spelling lists for Years 1, 2, 3 & 4 and 5 & 6.
Reading
Children are expected to read daily at home and record on purple mash. Children are provided with a book, which has been pitched appropriately to their reading level using a colour banded system. In addition to this, children will have the opportunity to get a book from our fantastic library fortnightly and change it once they've finished. In school, we have daily guided reading sessions, reading across the whole curriculum and we also share a book for pleasure every day for fifteen minutes at the end of the day.
Maths
Maths at Micklem follows the White Rose Maths scheme. In Autumn term, we focus on securing our understanding of place value with numbers up to 1,000,000, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division and conclude with an introduction to fractions. Spring term will introduce decimals and percentages, statistics and perimeter and area, whilst further consolidating fractions and multiplication and division. Finally, Summer term will cover shape, negative numbers, position and direction and converting units.
Please scroll to the bottom of the Year 5 page to access the 'small steps' documents for each term. These tell you what your child will be learning on a day-to-day basis each week as part of a block.
Follow this link for White Rose parent resources including free booklets linked to each block.
https://whiteroseeducation.com/parent-pupil-resources/maths/free-downloads
English
At Micklem, our English lessons are predominantly taught through the use of books, both fiction and non-fiction. This year, the children will read lots of exciting books including Wonder, Boy in the Tower, Michael Morpurgo's version of Beowulf, Macbeth, Kick and Stormbreaker. From this, they will then read, analyse, explore and create a range of fiction and non-fiction text types including letters, news reports, adventure stories and poems.
Below is a copy of the Year 5 writing checklist. This outlines what a Year 5 child, working at expected standard, should be able to do by the end of the school year.
Science
Throughout this year, children will explore a range of topic including earth and space, living things and their habitats, forces and materials and their properties. In each of these, the children will have regular opportunities to work scientifically. This means they will be planning and carrying out different types of scientific enquiries linked to teach topic.
Handwriting
Useful websites and links:
https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/
https://ttrockstars.com/
https://student.readingplus.com/seereader/api/sec/login
https://whiteroseeducation.com/parent-pupil-resources/maths/free-downloads
You can also use CGP study and question booklets to support your child with their English and Maths learning. These are also available for younger and older year groups, if your child needs additional support or challenge.
Year 5 Maths targeted study book
Year 5 Reading targeted study book
Year 5 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling targeted study book
Thank you for all your support and we look forward to a wonderful year of learning!
Miss Szymkiewicz, Miss Fazli and Mrs Potts 