Year 5
Week beginning 7th July 2025
Our project for this half-term is "Bournemouth to Brazil".
Well done for such an amazing year, Year 5. We have both been very proud and privileged to have been your teachers, and we will miss you all thoroughly. Luckily, we will get to watch you progress through Year 6 and see you in the corridor to say hi and check in. Have the most amazing summer and stay safe! We don't want to see any casts on arms or legs in September! It's not a goodbye, it's a see you later alligator!
Important dates and messages:
Worship theme:
Monday 21st July - Year 5 and 6 Leaver’s Eucharist 1.30 pm with Rev Rachel in the church.
Curriculum.
In maths we are going to be looking at a holiday plan and budgeting a holiday with calculators.
In PSHE we will be looking at our emotions and worries focusing on our big transition into Year 6.
We will also be handing out some books ready for the next school year. With that in mind, please could all children bring a carrier bag on Monday 21st July 2025 (last Monday of the school year) for any books and work that is handed out.
Other news:
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PPA Days - PPA Days will be every other Thursday, and children should come in wearing PE kits.
- PE every Thursday - Children should wear their PE kits every Thursday.
Homework:
- Please find links to the relevant information below for the Project Overview and Homework.
- MyMaths - We will set up MyMaths tasks termly, based on the learning we will be doing this term. Please let us know if you are finding them too easy or tricky, and remember that below, there are many resources you can use to extend your learning from home. Various MyMaths activities have been set for this term. This is to allow children who like to do more to be able to. However, children do not have to complete all the MyMaths activities. One per week is our minimum recommendation.
- Reading books - we would like to remind everyone to have a reading book in school - this can be a school or home book. We want all children to be able to share recommendations and reviews of what we have read recently. We display books we've read in the classroom to get children talking about the stories they love and inspire others to try new titles.
- Reading records - All children should now have a grey reading record in which they can record how often they are reading. They will receive one raffle ticket if they read three times a week and two if they read more than five. At the end of each term, we will draw a raffle to win a trip to Costa. You have to be in it to win it! Activities in the reading records can be completed at home for fun!
Reading:
We are reading 'Kensuke's Kingdom' by Michael Morpurgo and using the following Designation Reader sentence stems to start our answers this term. We focus on different skills in each lesson: inferring, predicting, asking questions, evaluating, clarifying, summarising, and making connections.
Spellings:
Our spellings for this term are below. However, we are moving away from weekly tests, using more discreet learning techniques, and applying our spelling words across our curriculum.
Best wishes,
Year 5 Team
Miss Martin and Mrs Fakorede
Learning as a family in Jesus, through Love, Hope, and Forgiveness.
Matthew 19:26: “With God all things are possible.”