Welcome to Year Five!

Here you will find information about Oak and Chestnut classes. We hope your child has a fantastic year!

Useful Information

Curriculum Overview

End of Year Expectations

Autumn Newsletter

Autumn Homework

Autumn Spelling List

Spring Homework

Spring Spelling List

PE – Monday and Thursday.

Swimming- Chestnut Class will swim every Monday (13/01; 20/01; 27/01; 03/05; 10/05)

Forest School– Oak Class will have Forest School every Tuesday .

Spelling Tests – Every Wednesday morning.

Homework – Set on a Wednesday and due in on Monday morning. 

Homework club is on Thursday lunchtimes.

Times Tables club is on Wednesday lunchtimes.

Optional Homework

Here are some optional tasks that you can complete in order to further support your learning at home. All are relevant to the work we have covered so far so should prove useful retrieval practice for you.

Maths	English- Writing	English- Reading
Negative Numbers Place Value Addition and Subtraction Short Division Short Multiplication Long Multiplication Times Tables Challenge 1 Times Tables Challenge 2 Times Tables Challenge 3	Direct Speech Verbs and Adverbs Nouns and Verbs Main Clauses Subordinating Clauses Relative Clauses Modal Verbs	Aesop’s Fables Fact File: Jupiter Sea Serpents The Legend of the Giant

Here are some online games to support your learning too:

https://www.romanbaths.co.uk/know-your-numerals (Roman numerals)

https://www.roomrecess.com/mobile/Zap-A-Zoid/play.html (Odds and evens, factors, multiples and primes)

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/multiples-and-factors (Factors and multiples)

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/place-value/bead-numbers (Place Value- make sure you are playing with 4-7 beads in order to practice using larger numbers)

Recommended Reads

Here are some of the books recommended by Year 5. We have most of these in our school library or our book corners, so why not make one of these your next book to read?

1. The Twitchers series by M.G. Leonard
2. National Geographic Kids
3. Little Badman series by Hamza Arshad
4. The ‘Wonder’ series by R.J. Palacio
5. The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
6. The Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries by Robin Stevens
7. The ‘Accidental’ series by Tom McLaughlin