Year 5 Parents Information Afternoon Running order: The team Behaviour New curriculum Homework Information Question

Year 5 Team 5M – Jon Myers (Year Leader) 5D – Rachel Davies (Science Coordinator) 5B – Katherine Ballinger (Joint MFL Coordinator) 5P – Sue Perrin (DT Coordinator)/Jo Young (Geography Coordinator) Music Teacher - Anna Rusbatch Jane Johnson- PPA cover Mike Brownlee- PE Teacher Karen Webb – Teaching Assistant Meg Ballard – Teaching Assistant Mrs Bonnel/Mrs Allenby/ Mrs Manley - Individual Needs Assistants

Rewards Star of the Week Pupil of the Term Silver Stickers Gold Certificates Golden Time

Behaviour Warning Mr Franceschi Gold Certificate! Silver Sticker! A word from Mr Franceschi!

ICT has been replaced with Computing.... Throughout the year your child will become..... Animators Opinion Pollsters Bug FixersCommunicatorsPresenters Your child will have 1 Computing Lesson a week, not all lessons will be in our new Computing Lab some will be using...a pencil and paper! Cross Curricular We have a range of technology which your child will be using throughout the year in lots of other subjects. Laptops Netbooks Digital Cameras Desktop iPadsMachines Android Tablets Blogs From November every child in the school will be blogging on our school Virtual Learning Environment - only people in the school community will be able to see this. Why not ask them to share it with you?

French instead of Spanish Introducing P4C SLP Why do philosophy with children? Builds a community of thinkers Develops reasoning skills Creates a culture of respect

This Term’s

Homework Given out on a Thursday Due in on a Tuesday Main task – Spellings Maths (times tables) French (coming soon) Two week homeworks (projects) Advance warning!

Information PE days- Tuesday and Thursday 5PY and 5B swimming on Tuesday’s (5M and 5D after half term) PE Kit – please label clothes! Jewellery Water bottles Healthy snacks

Communicating with your child’s teacher Best time is at the end of the day Thursday morning – play duty Homework diary Make an appointment at the office Send a note with your child Send a message through the office

Important Dates Parents’ Evening – & Class Assemblies- 16 th January 5D 27 th February 5M 13 th March 5B 24 th April 5PY

Thank you for attending If you would like to come into help with reading or can offer any expertise please see your child’s class teacher. IF YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS PLEASE POP THEM IN THE SUGGESTION BOX ON THE STAGE. We look forward to working with you over the coming year.

Areas Top PlaygroundMiddle PlaygroundBottom PlaygroundHallGymMusic RoomClassroom Music Practice Room Monday SKil Netball Yrs pm * C Dance Art-Lynda Forster 4.00pm-8.00pm MultiSKil Year pm Karate 5pm Superchoir Y6 Only Drum kit Tuition Tuesday Outdoor Project O SKil Girls Ftball All Years pm Dance - Helen Whitehouse * Tap Dance - C Thompson * After half term SKil Health Related Exercise Yrs pm DJS Arts & Crafts Club - 3R Drum kit Tuition Wednesday Cricket T SKil Basketball All Years pm Mega Choir am (Hall) Open to all Taekwon-do (Howard) MultiSKil All Years pm Creative Writing ICT Suite Thursday O Yoga Dance Art (Also Canteen pm) MultiSKil Yrs 4, pm Orchestra Y3 Crafty Club 3R Piano Alice Hawkes 9am Friday *COTO Skil Boys Ftball Yr Boys Ftball Yrs Skil Gymnastics Y Y SlverBox Film ICT Suite Piano Alice Hawkes 9am