Year 5 Meet the Teacher Thursday 14th September 2017

Year 5 staff 5B – Miss Ballard (Monday and Tuesday) & Mrs Burdett (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) 5F – Mrs Fielder 5M – Mrs Mavin Miss Teasdale, Mrs Sleight and Mrs Edgecumbe – TAs

Curriculum Map

Curriculum newsletter As in previous years, you will receive a copy of the curriculum newsletter every time we begin a new unit. The newsletter details the learning that will take place in the ‘lead’ and ‘applied’ curriculum subjects. Other subjects may be taught discretely and may not feature on the newsletter.

Trips The two main trips in Year 5 are: Winchester Science Centre and Planetarium (To Infinity and Beyond!) The British Museum (The Legacy Lives On!)

Phase Expectations

Timetable

PE 5F – Tuesday and Thursday PE KIT (contained within a named bag – not a rucksack) Red shorts and white t-shirt Winter – additional dark-coloured tracksuit Trainers suitable for indoor and outdoor wear

Embedded in our classrooms Foundations of Learning Thinking Skills Self-Awareness Collaboration Independence Christian Values Love Hope Grace Traffic Light System

Homework Maths and English tasks will be set weekly. Weekly spelling words. Homework will be handed out on a Friday, with a return date of the following Thursday. Homework Club is every Tuesday and is run by Mrs Woods in the Yr 3/6 shared area.

Spelling No Nonsense Spelling Program Spelling Autumn Term OUGH word string ABLE and IBLE suffixes Homophones Plurals- adding s, es, ies Hyphenated words Statutory Words

And finally… Any questions?