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

PE – Monday and Friday

Swimming- Oak will start swimming after October half term until Christmas. Chestnut class will start swimming after Christmas until February half term. Any parental help to walk to the Pavillions would be much appreciated. Please contact the school office if you are able to help us out.

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.

Additional Homework

Here are some optional tasks that you can complete in addition to your homework. 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 Times Tables Challenge 1 Times Tables Challenge 2 Times Tables Challenge 3	Direct Speech Verbs and Adverbs Nouns and Verbs Main Clauses Subordinating Clauses	Reading Comprehension 1 Reading Comprehension 2 Reading Comprehension 3 Parliament Quiz (On Pg. 17)

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