1. Welcome to Year 5

2. Meet the team:
Mrs Sharma/ Mrs Chestnutt
Mrs Hammel
Mr Steele
Miss Bryant
Mrs Ali
Mrs Pillai

3. Expectations for Year 5
Everyone will try their best
Everyone will come to school on time
Everyone will complete their homework
Everyone will keep positive
Everyone will be happy
Everyone will CHALLENGE themselves

4. Timetable:
8:45-9:10 - Early morning work
9: :10 - Maths
10: :30 - Assembly or PSHE on Tuesdays
10: :45 - Break
10: :45 - English
11: :10 - Spelling, punctuation and grammar, French or Handwriting
12:10 - 1:10 - Lunch
1:10 - 1:40 - Guided Reading
1:40 - 3:00 - Topic (Science, Geography, Art, History or P.E)

5. Homework
This will be given out every Friday. All children will be expected to
complete this and return it by Wednesday.
The English homework will be linked to activities that have been carried out that week and may be a selection of grammar, punctuation and comprehension activities.
The Math's homework will now be to complete a page in the new Times Tables practice book. Each week the children will be allocated a specific times table. Please only complete one page a week!
Spellings will be given out each week and children will be tested on a Friday.

6. Spelling Award
This year the Squirrel's Heath spelling award has been launched. Every half term the children will receive a set of spellings of which they can practice. At the end of the half term they will be tested on 25 random words from the list. If the children get all of the words correct, they will get the award! Year 5 will start on the blue award.

7. 6 house points achieved in a day
6 house points achieved in a day. A gold certiciate is given out in Friday's celebration assembly.
Children can go up and down
within a given day.
Children can redeem themselves
and move back up from red or
yellow to green.
In some circumstances, children
may move down to yellow for a
serious incident, despite being on
gold, silver or bronze.
Each day children start back on
green, regardless of where they
were on the chart the previous day.
4 house points achieved in a day. Children recieve a silver certiciate in class.
2 house points earned in a day.
Green is the starting point. It's fine to remain on green the whole day.
After a verbal warning, children will be placed on yellow to correct their behaviour. Children will be moved to a quiet area of the classroom.
After a final warning, children they will move to red. They will be sent to another class and parents will be 
notified

8. Fruit or vegetables at playtime
NO NUTS!!

9. Are you entitled to free school meals? 
Please contact the school office.
Any questions please see them.
If you haven't already done so, please sign up to Parentmail.

10. PE Kit
All children are expected to wear the correct PE kit 
during games and PE lessons.
red shorts
plain white T-shirt/school logo T-shirt
track suit during colder months
plimsolls or trainers
long hair needs to be tied up (everyday!)

11. The Curriculum

12. BLOOD HEART!
We are now moving towards a topic based curriculum and all activities this half term will be based around our topic - Blood Heart!

13. English for this term
Autumn Term:
Pig Heart Boy (letter, diary, emotive writing, descriptions, persuasive writing)
Grammar (Punctuation, Verbs, Adjectives, Similies and Metaphors,
Conjunctions, Bullet points)
Spelling - Suffixes, Silent letters, Homophones,
Y5 focus spellings
A more detailed Curriculum map for the year is available on our website.

14. Key areas throughout the year:
Maths for this term
Key areas throughout the year:
numberwork (read, write, compare and order numbers up to and beyond 
 rounding a number to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, )
calculations (all operations; recall use of all times tables for multiplication and division; 
money facts and calculations; word problems)
geometry (properties of 2D and 3D shapes, Angles)
Perimeter, Area
Problem Solving
Factors, Multiples, (key facts)
fractions, decimals
statistics (pictograms, bar charts, tables)