Year 5

Welcome to Year 5! We’re so excited to have you in the class! 😊 Ms. Sentance will be your class teacher every morning and Tuesday afternoon, and Miss Szymkiewicz will be there supporting all week as the teaching assistant. You'll also see Mrs. Potts throughout the week, and she’ll be teaching every other afternoon. It's going to be an amazing year, and we can't wait to learn and grow together!

During Autumn 2, PE will be on Mondays. Please ensure your child has a full Micklem PE kit, including appropriate trainers. The children only have one PE session during Autumn 2, as they take part in a forest school session each week, which replaces their other PE lesson.

Year 5's Forest School sessions will be during the Autumn 2 and Summer 2 half-term. During Autumn 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 with your child daily and record this in their reading record. Homework will be set on purple mash and spelling shed each Friday and due back on Wednesdays. Children can also use spelling shed, times table rockstar and reading plus at home for extra learning. 

Spelling

Your child will have a home spelling book with ten spellings that are pitched appropriately. Please practise these with your child throughout the week in preparation for a spelling test on Monday.

Please follow the links to view spelling lists for Years 1, 2, 3 & 4 and 5 & 6. 

Year 1 

Year 2

Year 3 & 4

Year 5 & 6

Reading
Children are expected to read daily at home and record this in their reading records (signed by an adult). Children are provided with a book, which has been pitched appropriately to their reading level using a colour banded system. 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 before lunch.

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 and Michael Morpurgo's version of Beowulf. 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!

Ms Sentance, Miss Szymkiewicz and Mrs Potts