St. Peter’s C.E. Primary School Year 5

Introduction Welcome Teachers: Mrs Eyles, Miss Evans and Miss Green Teaching Assistants: Mrs Gresty, Mrs Dempster, Mrs Munroe, Mrs Bryers, and Mr Smith Classroom location and doors: opposite the hall.

Uniform Uniform consists of a white polo shirt, grey or black trousers / shorts / skirt, navy jumper and black shoes. No boots or bright, patterned tights please. Hair gel, hair braids, nail varnish and make up are not part of our uniform. The only jewellery allowed is watches and plain stud earrings.

P.E. Days 5E will have PE on Wednesday 5G will have PE on Games/swimming will be on Wednesday Please make sure all kit is named.

P.E. Kit Navy St Peter’s T-Shirt Navy or black shorts Pumps or trainers Tracksuit bottoms / sweatshirt (for outdoor games) (NB: Football shirts are for football club only) Please remember that children cannot do P.E. with earrings in. Staff are not allowed to take earrings out. Therefore children need to be able to take their own earrings out, or preferably, not wear them on P.E. days. Nor should they do P.E. in their school shoes. Please could they have pumps or trainers in school.

Asthma If your child has asthma, please make sure that all necessary forms have been completed and that your child has the necessary inhalers and a spacer in school. If your child has any other medical issues or allergies please inform us.

Units: During the Year children will be studying a variety of units in the IPC Curriculum: The Great, the Bold and the Brave A Local Study Growing Up What a Wonderful World Making New Materials Space Explorers Fairgrounds If you have any expertise or interest in any of these subjects please do not hesitate to contact us.

Visits and Visitors Children will have the opportunity to benefit from visits and visitors to school We are fortunate that the school heavily subsidises visits and visitors and therefore the maximum cost of any trip should not exceed £10 and will often be less We have one trip arranged in January to see The Borrowers at The New Victoria Theatre. The Animal Man will also be visiting us next year.

Y5 Home Learning Reading: 10 minutes per day Spelling: 10 minutes per day Tables: 10 minutes per day (about 2½ hours per week) (+ Optional additional maths / topic home learning)

Working Together You can help your child by: making sure they have the necessary kit and resources in school reading with them frequently helping them get into a routine for doing weekly homework being positive and supportive of school policies continuing to work closely with us to ensure we have a consistent approach as co- educators.

Keeping in Touch Routine messages, such as doctor’s appointments, can be left with the office in the morning. If you need to speak to your child’s class teacher, please could you ring the office to make an appointment or, if it’s just a quick query, pop and see us after school. Please avoid registration as this is one of our busiest times of the day where the children must be our main focus! If you have any questions or concerns please speak to us as soon as you can. We can usually resolve issues quickly with your help. Parents’ evenings will take place in the Autumn Term. If you have any suggestions about how we could improve our communication please let us know.