WELCOME TO YEAR 5 2025

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 Massey is here to help. Email head@hollinhey.cheshire.sch.uk

Our Summer 1 Topic is 

Roots & Routes

We will be learning about the history of our local area and comparing it to contrasting locations bith in the U.K. and beyond.

Please see the files section for curriculum information.

Important information

PE Lessons:

This half term, P.E. lessons will take place on Tuesdays and Fridays.   

Snacks and Drinks

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.  Please remember that we are a nut-free school.

Homework

Yellow homework folders with paper homework and spellings will be sent home every Wednesday and should be completed for the following Monday.

Spelling

A spelling session is taught in school on Mondays, spellings sent home on Wednesdays (in the homework folder) to practise and learn for the following Monday through use of ‘look-say-cover-write-check’ and/or Spelling Shed.  

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

https://ttrockstars.com/

(Learning and memorising timetables is very important as they are used in their Maths lessons)

5 x Spelling Shed games or 5 IDL activities

https://play.edshed.com/en-gb

1 lesson on Reading Plus

https://student.readingplus.com/seereader/api/sec/login

Maths

When homework is set each Wednesday the children will be given 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.