Year 5

Here at Whiteways, reading is top priority and therefore children will need to read each night.  They will bring home copies of their RWI book or a book that is linked to their reading level if they are on Reciprocal Reading. Please share these texts with your child every day, taking turns reading to them and for them to read to you. Children who are on RWI will also bring home words from their ‘Read Write Inc’ phonics session to practise reading at home. Please get the children to write in the reading record books and these will be checked weekly.

Please help us get your children fully immersed in our topics by completing the home learning tasks together. As well as our topic homework, we will send home weekly reading and spellings.  Most importantly, have fun and get your children talking about their learning. Year 5 will have their home learning set each week on Purple Mash but there will also be a paper overview also set.

Please see our termly newsletters and theme organisers for more in-depth information about our Y5 learning journey.

Over the year we try to answer three main research questions linked to the three areas of topic. These are:

Autumn Term we will have a History focus, ‘What can we learn from the past?’ with the focus on the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings.

Spring Term we will have a Geography focus, ‘What makes our world special?’ with the focus on Brazil;

Summer Term we will have a Science focus, We are scientists! This will be focusing on space.

PE day:
5SN Wednesday afternoon
5A Friday afternoon
Swimming: both classes will do swimming until February half-term on Tuesday.