Otters - Year 5 Class

Otters Class teacher is Miss Parkinson. Miss Parkinson loves teaching History and Computing. In her free time, she likes to get creative through arts and crafts or reading a good book. Our class teaching assistant is Mrs Saiyai who is also our school ELSA support. Mrs Saiyai is always happy to have a friendly chat and loves art (especially making collages). When Mrs Malcolm has Planning, Preparation and Assessment time, the class is taught Art by Mrs Saiyai.

• Read as often as you can! Please record reading in their diary and ensure it is in your child’s bag everyday so it can be check
• Name all belongings
• Bring a healthy snack such as fruit or vegetables for break time
• Please ensure your child has a water bottle everyday
• Please ensure your child is wearing full school uniform or PE kit if a PE day
• Please ensure you do not wear jewelry on a PE day and long hair is tied up
• Complete your homework when it’s given, this helps consolidate learning. If you need support homework club is open every Thursday lunch time and spare homework is available all week if anything is lost

Medium Term plan

Reading is incredibly important for everything we do in school so it is important to read as much as possible at home. Children are expected to read at least three a week at home and when you’re able to read 5 or more times in a week you’ll earn house points! I encourage children to read their book banded book that is sent home because this is designed to target your child’s reading level and help them improve areas they struggle with. Further banded books can be found on the Oxford Owl website. However, any reading completed at home is superb and valuable, so please write down whatever it is you’ve been reading at home!

YEAR 5's STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS

YEAR 5 READING SPINE

In Year 5, we focus your home learning on reading and maths consolidating or extending learning done inside of school

Reading Homework – A text will be provided along with a set of questions on the information to be answered

Maths Homework – A worksheet related to a recently covered topic or key mathematical skill (such as times tables). Your child will have a coloured maths group in the back of their homework book which will tell them which parts of the worksheet to complete.

Spellings – A small slip with 10 spellings we have been learning in class. Any spellings they struggle with should be practiced at home to prepare for the test on Friday.

All homework will be set on Friday and collected the following Friday.

Over the holiday, your child will receive a creative home learning project relating to upcoming topics which will be collected the first Friday of a new term. This allows pupils to get excited about upcoming learning as well as gaining a chance to make something that suits their creative interests such as writing a poem, building a model, or painting a picture.

General:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary#england – BBC bitesize provides many excellent resources for revising and recapping learning covered in school

Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share (mit.edu) – a great website we use in computing. It has many tutorials and allows children a chance to experiment with coding

Maths:

Topmarks: teaching resources, interactive resources, worksheets, homework, exam and revision help – a great website filled with helpful resources for practicing skills. This site also provides helpful resources for other subjects

Times Tables Rock Stars – Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com) – a fun way to practice timestables. Each child has their own avatar and can gain points through practice. This site requires a login which we can provide you with if it’s forgotten.

Reading:

Login (oxfordowl.co.uk) – an online library for accessing virtual books targeted towards your child’s reading level. This site requires a login which we can provide you with if it’s forgotten.

Wob | World of Books | Buy cheap second-hand books online – a great place to buy books second hand at a reasonable price

• Jigsaw charter
• Spellings word list Years 3 and 4
• Spellings word list Years 5 and 6
• RWI spelling chart