Orchard Primary and Pre-School
Welcome to Year 5!
Welcome to Year 5!
Our Class Teacher in Year 5 is Miss Oakley with the class being supported by Mrs Groom.
The adults in Year 5 are available to chat and answer your questions before registration each morning and at the end of the school day. However, if you feel you need more time to talk, please feel free to make an appointment - face to face or virtual meetings can be arranged by contacting the School Office.
Thank you, as always, for your ongoing support – The Year 5 Team :)
Useful Information.
Reading
All children are expected to read regularly (at least 4 times a week) and access accelerated reading, doing the quizzes after they have read a book.
Spellings
We will be using the Ready Steady Spell programme across KS2. Children will keep a personal log of spellings which they can take home to revise. There will be a spelling test every Friday.
Homework
We will be giving the children weekly tasks to be completed throughout the week. This will include a range of different activities to support your child's learning in school. Maths and SPAG homework will be given out on a Monday and collected on Friday.
Maths Fluency Targets
This half-term Year 5 will be revisiting their times-tables, up to 12 x 12. We really appreciate your support and encouragement of this as it is important that the children revisit these regularly at home as well as in school. Please use the following link to our Maths Fluency page, which has lots of great links and games to help: https://www.orchardprimary.org.uk/times-tables/
PE
This half-term, our PE lesson will be on a Monday and a Friday. Please can we remind you that full PE kits, with suitable footwear, should always be in school and can be kept on the children’s pegs. Please also ensure that all school uniform and PE kits are clearly labelled.
Water Bottles
All children need to bring a named water bottle to school each day please.
Music
Every Friday the children will have keyboard lessons provided by SevernArts. Keyboards can be taken home to practice but need to be in school every week for the lesson.
Internet Safety
A big focus this year will be learning how to stay safe online. Important information and updates will be sent home where necessary; the following websites also have lots of information:
We use the child-friendly search engine 'Kiddle' when carrying out research in school and recommend that children do the same when they are online at home (link below). Please make sure you supervise your child while they are online and do not hesitate to ask if you have any questions.