Year 5 2024 - 2025
Miss Baggs
Year 5 Teacher
WELCOME TO YEAR 5 2023
To contact us direct, please could you email year5@hollinhey.cheshire.sch.uk
We are here to keep everyone in our school community safe. If you have a safety worry, Mrs Clough is here to help. Email head@hollinhey.cheshire.sch.uk
Welcome to the Year 5 webpage!
I hope you all had a wonderful half term. I am so excited to welcome you back to school and continue our adventure in Year 5 together.
My priority is to ensure that your child is safe, happy and excited to come to school. Please don't hesitate to send me an email or talk to me at the beginning or end of the day, I will always find time to listen and help if I can.
Our learning this half term is inspired by the Windrush Generation and their brave experiences of trying to make a better life in England. Our class reader `Windrush Child` by Benjamin Zephania, will guide us to explore the events of the 1960s and recount the stories of their remarkable lives.
In Science, we will explore Forces and Gravity, We will continue to work scientically, making predicitions and recording our findings.
Important information
- PE Lessons: This half term the children will be swimming on a Thursday afternoon. Swimming lessons will take place every Thursday, beginning on the 26th September and finishing on the 24th October. All children will be asked to wear a swimming hat and children with long hair need to have it tied up. Children need to bring their swimming costume/trunks, goggles, swim hat and towel in a strong bag to carry to the lesiure centre.
- Homework is set every Wednesday and should be completed for the following Monday.
- Please send water in the childrens' bottles and a healthy snack for breaktime. Please consider carefully which snacks will help your child to succeed with their learning, preferably those which provide slow release energy through the morning
Homework
Spelling
A spelling session is taught in school on Wednesdays, spellings sent home that day to practise and learn for the following Monday through use of ‘look-say-cover-write-check’ and/or Spelling Shed, followed by a spelling check on Mondays.
I recommend either using a ‘look-say-cover-write-check’ approach for each word a few times before Monday and/or having a go on Spelling Shed. The word lists put on Spelling Shed match the spelling patterns of this week’s words. A few shorter practices over the week are likely to be more efficient and effective than a single, longer practice session. If time permits, a brief reminder on Monday morning might help too.
The children will be expected to have practised them as part of their homework. We will have a spelling check in school on Monday (carried out sensitively so as to build confidence in test situations while minimising any worries) to allow the children to show what they’ve learnt.
If your child seems to memorise the words more effectively through either Spelling Shed or ‘look-say-cover-write-check’, they can focus on using that method in particular.
Homework
Our Digital Platform Learning expectations are as follows:
2 x 5 min TT Rockstars
(Learning and memorising timetables is very important as they are used in their Maths lessons)
5 x Spelling Shed games or 5 IDL activities (Weds onwards)
Maths
When homework is set each Wednesday the children will be given a maths questions to practise, which will be linked to their maths lessons and will help with their confidence and recall.
English
For this homework children will be set activities to practise their punctuation and grammar skills linked to their English lessons.
Files to Download
Year 5: Calendar items
Non uniform day (Bottles), by Mrs McPike
OPEN MORNING, by Mrs McPike
Professional Photographer photos, by Mrs McPike