1. Year 5 Parent Meeting
Thursday 22nd September 2016

2. Meet the Team: Class Teachers: Miss Linnane (Fleming)
Mrs Shorter (Darwin)
Teaching Assistants - Fleming Class
Miss Beautridge (mornings only)
Mrs Endell (mornings only)
Mrs Burborough (mornings only)
Miss Carey (afternoons only)
Teaching Assistants - Darwin Class
Mrs Richardson (mornings only)

3. Our aims for the year ahead:
Love for learning.
Exciting lessons to engage.
Children who have a growth mindset approach and want to learn “more”.
Parent / teacher relationship.
Happy, confident children who take a risk in lessons.
Organised and mature approach to school and their home learning.

4. Our first topic: The Ancient Greeks! We will be learning about:
Greek mythology
Greek gods and goddesses
Amphitheatres – designing and making our own
Famous battles and key dates
The reach of the Greek empire
Olympic games

5. Other subjects your child will be taught on a weekly/daily basis:
Maths and reasoning (different books)
Literacy, RWI and SPaG
History/Geography
Science
PE – rugby and dance for the first term
Music RE
Computing
French
DT and art

6. English Writing Content will be topic based
Text type focus for one to two weeks
Immersion in the text type and content
Short pieces of writing, building up to a big piece
SPaG
Each focus lasts for two-three weeks
SPaG will feed into the writing each week
Spellings to be learnt at home, in conjunction with our RWI programme – letter pattern or high frequency
Reading
Weekly focus on the different aspects of reading
Comprehension – new skill learnt each week

7. Reading Independent Reading
10 minutes after lunch and/or first thing in the morning
Reading for pleasure
Book corner book or library book
5x reading
Book band book
Reading Record signed by adult
Bring in when needing to be changed
Bring in on a Friday to contribute towards class percentage
Library Slot
30 minute slot each Wednesday
Teacher to hear readers

8. Maths
FAST Learning
Focus on basic skills such as number bonds and times tables.
Aim is for speed and accuracy.
Year 4 expectations for times tables is 12 x 12, therefore Year 5 should be fluent by the end of Term 1.
Maths Content
Written methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Place value, fractions, shape,
Problem solving and investigation with a focus on explanation and reasoning.

9. What they will need: Each day: Reading book Named water bottle
Named PE kit Spellings log book
Each week:
To hand in their home learning (two pieces) by Tuesday of each week

10. PE TWO PE lessons a week: Monday - Tag Rugby (Outdoor)
Friday – Dance (Indoor)
PE Kit
Plain white t-shirt
Black shorts/skort/tracksuit bottoms
Black sweatshirt (no hood)
Trainers (especially for the Winter) or plimsolls
Socks!
NO EARRINGS please.

11. Home Learning Regular Home Learning Tasks 5 times reading
Learning spellings (for the Monday spelling test)
Learning multiplication tables (for the Friday test)
One piece of English and one piece of maths based learning (handed out on a Friday, to be returned by Tuesday)
Occasional Home Learning Tasks
Topic-based projects

12. Other Useful Information
Appointments
Via the office please
End of the Day
Walking pupils out to either top or middle gate on the KS1 playground in first few weeks.
Pupils should be collected. Please inform school if the usual person is not collecting.
Greek Day
Tuesday 11th October Greek-style costume - Greek Food (allergies we are not aware of) - Workshops