1. Welcome to Year 5
The Witches
and
Oompa Lumpas

2. Year Team
Mr Carney – Class Teacher- Witches
Mr Thomas – Class Teacher – Oompa Lumpas
Mrs Franklin – Learning Support Practitoner
Mrs Shekhar – Learning Support Practitoner

3. Year 5 Expectations as a Learner
Self Managers
Enjoy challenges, especially open ended or deeper thinking ones.
Try different ways to solve a problem.
Prioritise the most important things that need doing.
Welcome opportunities to take on added responsibility.
Organise own time.
Not put off by changes that may occur to normal routine.
Describe own strengths and weaknesses.
Effective Participators
Persuade others to accept a proposal even though others may not at first agree with the suggestion.
Know that their ideas can help other people.
Decide when they need ‘time out’ or ‘thinking time’ to deal with emotions.
Determined not to ‘give in’ too easily.
Manage disappointments and keep emotions in check.
Resourceful Thinkers
Ask questions to check understanding.
Tenacious when things get difficult.
Sort and classify information and check it for clarity.
Draw inference and make deductions from a range of sources.
Give alternative solutions or explanations.
Describe effective learning and compare to own learning.
Reflective Learners
Value and use feedback that helps to improve quality of work and learning.
Review learning and identify a factor that could help make them a more effective learner.
Use more than one piece of evidence to support their learning.
Independent Enquirers
Follow up a question to gain clarification.
Use more than one piece of evidence to support their findings.
Complete a task without reminders from others.
Break down complex ideas into steps.
Make lists when helpful to do so.
Sort information and choose what is most relevant.
Team Workers
Take on a specific allocated role in a group.
Respect and tolerate values and beliefs of others in a joint activity.
Communicate capably as a team member.
Keep focused on a task and avoid distractions.
Respect opinion of others when different from their own.

4. Expectations

5. Expectations

6. Learning Challenge Curriculum
Topic based learning:
English
History
D&T
What Links Liverpool and New York?
Geography
Maths
Art
Music
Computing

7. English in Year 5
Writing for a purpose – making links to Learning Challenge Curriculum – Significant Authors and learning from their writing styles.
Key text – Wrinkle in Time (1.1), The Hobbit (1.2)
Guided Reading/Reciprocal Reading – delivered over the course of the week and used to develop decoding and comprehension skills. Working in whole class and grouping as appropriate.

8. English in Year 5
Persuasive writing, Significant Author, Older Literature and Form Poetry this term.
Spellings – tious, cious; ‘y’ as ‘i’ and ‘y’ as ‘I’; further homophones and other rules can be found on the year group website page – half-termly spelling booklet.
Presentation – Book contracts and signed, agreed to and should be adhered to. Handwriting should be worked on to ensure writing is legible and fitting with school policy and curriculum requirements.

9. End of Year expectations
Reading:

10. End of Year expectations
Writing:

11. Maths
Singapore maths – Maths No Problem! Encouraging children to develop use of their reasoning skills; explaining their mathematical understanding and application of knowledge.
Areas of learning this term: Place value – counting to 1,000,000; Addition and Subtraction within 1,000,000; Multiplication and Division introduction to long multiplication; Further Multiplication and Division; Graphs; Word Problems; Fractions (decimals).
Presentation of work – book contracts are agreed and must be followed – we encourage children to respect and take pride for their learning.

12. End of Year expectations
Maths:

13. Homework
Bug Club – updated with a book each week (Monday) and spelling and grammar games added as and when appropriate to support in class learning.
MyMaths – Updated each week (Monday), homework to reflect and support in class learning.
Learning Logs – set fortnightly and shared in class to support learning challenge and other in class learning.
This is school policy, any issues with policy should be directed to Miss Walters.

14. Physical Education
Monday and Wednesday – remember to wear your P.E. Kits on these days.
Swimming after October half term.
Areas covered this term include:
Gymnastics
Dance
Swimming
Invasion Games

15. Trips Jodrell Bank – November.
Tatton Park Anglo-Saxon village – March.
Delamere Forest with Reception Buddies – March.
Cinema – July.
Kingswood Residential – May (November deadline).

16. Healthy Minds Water bottles – Children have access all day.
Morning break snack – healthy snack.
Healthy School Meals.
Healthy lunchboxes.

17. Classroom Plan – Our Class Charter

18. Behaviour and Discipline
Positive rewards – marbles in jar, Dojo points.
Star of the week, Work of the week – star of the week to reflect core value for each half term – current core value is Respect.
First warning – name on the board.
Second warning – 5 minutes back at play.
Final Warning – miss play (or ten minutes at lunchtime) recorded on behaviour log.
Phase leader – Mr Robinson (Assistant head/Y5 class teacher)

19. Positive Thinking
Being a 2%er – creating positive learners and positive children.
Taking responsibility – increased independence
Random Acts of Kindness and Spreading Positivity.
Rephrasing your questioning – “What went well today?”

20. Thank You We look forward to getting to know you all!
Feel free to stay and ask any questions.