Year 5 2024 - 2025

Welcome back to year 5 everyone! We hope you have had a lovely summer and feel fresh and revitalised. We are really looking forward to our learning this term.

Our topic for the Autumn term is going to be North America.  You will find all the information about what we will be learning on our topic web in the files attached below.

As part of our RE curriculum we will be visiting Chester Cathedral on 7th October to learn about Pilgrims.  

We also have a fantastic trip booked to Xplore Science and Discovery Centre in Wrexham, booked for 16th October,  linked to our Science topic on ‘Forces’.

Our PE lessons are on different days.  5P on Monday and 5PWK on Wednesday. The children will need to come into school in their PE kit (Black shorts and a white plain t shirt). For the first half term this will be netball, we are will be outside so black or blue tracksuit trousers or leggings may be warmer. School jumpers may be worn for warmth. 

Please put names in all clothing worn in school especially jumpers and coats and wellies. 

Please always bring a water bottle into school everyday as there are no working water fountains in school.

Homework when set, will always due in on a Monday.

Maths homework may sometimes be set on the computer - My maths. The children will be given a log in and there will be links to lessons and tasks and sometimes other useful websites e.g. Prodigy. (Log ins will be written or stuck into reading record books). Sometimes they will bring home a worksheet to complete.

In year five we recommend reading daily or at least 4 times a week out loud to an adult discussing the unknown vocabulary or helping with tricky words. 

Spelling or grammar homework will be sent half termly. 

Useful websites:

Maths practice https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/

Times tables practice https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student

Spelling practice https://spellingframe.co.uk/

Maths homework https://www.mymaths.co.uk/primary.html

Woodlands Junior has many good games to play. http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths/index.html

Topmarks has many educational games https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn