Brownhills West Primary School

Year 5

Welcome to Year 5

We are excited to welcome you to Year 5 and look forward to getting to know our families.

Staff

Class Teacher: Miss A Painter

Teaching Assistant: Mrs V Lewis

 

Useful Information

 

PE

Our PE sessions this term will be on Tuesdays.

Children are to come to school wearing their PE kits. Please ensure that your child has appropriate clothing and footwear for the weather. Our school PE kit consists of black shorts or black tracksuit bottoms, white T-shirt, trainers for outside. A sweatshirt can also be worn in colder months.

 Hair should be tied back and no jewellery should be worn. 

 

Class Dojo

Please make sure you are linked with our Class Dojo page. We use this platform to communicate current learning, share photographs and update you with any important notices.

Learning

Long Term Plan

year 5 yearly overview ltp 2024 2025.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

Termly Overview

year 5 autumn 2024 .pdf

 

 

 

Reading

Children are allocated books suitable to their ability on Oxford Ready Buddy (their login is in their Reading Record). Children also have a ‘Reading for Pleasure’ book which they choose themselves from the class library. This is to share at home and it is expected that good care is taken of the book. Lost or damaged books will incur a like-for-like replacement cost.

All of our children are expected to read at home at least four times per week with an adult recording their reading in the child’s Reading Record book. Reading Records will be checked every Friday by staff in your child’s class. Children who have met the expectation of reading at least four times per week will be rewarded with 5 DoJo points.

Reading is the most powerful gift we can give a child: it puts stardust in their imaginations

 

We will be sharing some great class texts this year including:

 How to Train Your Dragon - Cressida Cowell

How to Train Your Dragon: How to be a Pirate - Cressida Cowell

How to Train Your Dragon: How to Speak Dragonese - Cressida Cowell

The Underpants of Chaos - Sam Copeland and Jenny Pearson

Little Badman and the Radioactive Samosa - Henry White and Humza Arshad 

Spelling

  • Children should practise and learn their spellings which are set each week. School have provided exercise books to keep at home to help with this. 

Maths

  • Using the Times Tables Rock Stars app, children should complete sessions set weekly by their teacher (60 minutes a week).

  

Useful Websites

 

 You will find the following websites useful in supporting your child's learning at home. 

Follow this link to access the Oxford Reading Buddy website where you can use your own personal login to read lots of extra books! Why not try one of the reading quizzes afterwards?

Maths Follow this link for a range of Maths games for mental calculations, ordering numbers and times tables.

Follow this link and use your login details to access the times table rockstar competitions.