Mrs Owen & Mrs Wilson
Teaching Assistants: Miss Shaw & Mrs Warrell
As children progress to year 5, we aim to increase their responsibility as well as developing their skills in the school curriculum in order to prepare them for their time in year 6 and beyond. We want the children to have exciting and challenging experiences through a range of topics.
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Reading is an important part of everyday life. The more our children read, the better readers they will be and the better writers they will become.
Reading promotes achievement in all subjects, not just English. Children who are good readers tend to achieve better across the curriculum.
Parents and family members play an important role in building successful readers. Hearing your child read is vital to your child retaining and building on the skills he or she has learned in school. But most importantly, this is a time for children to engage their imaginations, find amusement in books, and to learn to love reading.
We ask that your child read for at least 15 minutes a day. Books can be of any genre or on any subject that is of interest to your child.
Here are some quick tips to encourage your child’s love for reading.
- READ! READ! READ! Make reading important. Be a role-model for reading. Let your child see you reading throughout the day and use daily routines as reading opportunities. Cooking, reading TV listings, looking for information on-line, reading directions, or following a map all provide authentic reading experiences.
- Give your child the power of choice. Having reading materials available, such as: books, magazines, comics, etc… is key to helping children love to read, and the reading materials they choose themselves are best. Help your child find texts that appeal to his or her interests, yet are age appropriate and ‘just right’ in difficulty.
- Find opportunities to read aloud to your child. Read your favourite childhood book aloud, read signs while driving in the car, read at stores, and read while you’re on holiday!
- Take frequent trips to the library.
- Read a great story over and over again to help your child with fluency and reading with expression.
- Talk it up. Talking about books during and after reading helps improve comprehension. Encourage your child to share their ideas and opinions by asking open-ended questions. Talk about what you read to let them know that reading is an important part of your life. Tell them why you liked a book, what you learned from it or how it helped you— soon they might start doing the same.
We hope you and your family will read many stories and reap all of the wonderful benefits that reading has to offer!
At home, there are many different ways in which you can support your child with their learning this year.
Homework in year 5 alternates between a learning log homework task, a My Maths online task or an English/SPAG task. All homework will be set and due in on a Friday. A more detailed overview of homework can be found on the parent information pack that was emailed out the first week in September and is also linked at the bottom of this page.
Learning Log - This will be topic or science based and children will be given 3 weeks to complete a learning log task.
Reading - Children should continue to read every night and to have their reading logged in their reading record each time.
Spellings - Spelling lists will be uploaded to Spelling Frame each week for the children to practise their weekly spellings. Click on the link below to access Spelling Frame:
Times Tables - A rapid recall of times tables is essential to aid children in all areas of their maths learning. Children will be allocated 5 Soundcheck sessions on TTRS to complete each week.
Click on the link below to access Times Tables Rockstars:
