Welcome to Year 5 The Year 5 Team

Welcome to Year 5

The Year 5 Team Mrs Pullen: Class Teacher – Mon, Tue, Wed Mrs Roberts: Class Teacher – Thurs, Fri Mr Clarke: Learning Support Assistant Mrs Waine: Learning Support Assistant Mrs Pownall: Learning Support Assistant Mrs Greaves: HLTA (Wed pm) Mr Seary: PE Teacher (Wed pm)

Covid Routines Y 5 start school at 8. 45 am until 3. 15 pm and have a morning break at 10. 30 am in their designated area of the playground. Their lunch is at 12. 30 pm which is structured by having an outdoor break 12. 30 pm until 1 pm and then they go into the hall for their lunch. Lunches across school are staggered to ensure only a limited number of children are in the hall at any one time. We encourage regular handwashing throughout the day and we have hand sanitiser stations in classroom and throughout school. Children have their own equipment in their trays. They have a pencil case with stationary provided by school, a white board and a reading book. We ask if children could provide their own colouring crayons/ pencils please. They are only to bring in book bags (no big bags/ rucsacs) Our PE days are Tuesdays and Wednesdays and children are to come into school dressed in their PE kits. Unfortunately, there will be no whole school assemblies at the moment, so celebration certificates will be awarded on a Friday and photos taken and uploaded onto Parent App.

Expectations Children to wear full school uniform. Please see our policy on the school website. Abide by our Golden Rules.

Independent Learners In Year 5 your child should be able to: Be responsible for their own belongings. Please can names be written into jumpers, cardigans and coats. Ensure that any given homework is completed in pencil and returned to school on time. Ensure that they change their own reading book when needed.

Rewards and Sanctions Children are awarded house points and certificates (MAGIC, achievement and presentation) for exemplary attitude to learning. At the end of each half term, we will continue to have treat days. When behaviour doesn’t meet our expectations or Golden Rules are broken, children will receive a verbal warning, Yellow cards or Red cards (which results in them missing our end of term Treat Day). Please refer to our online behaviour policy on our website for further details.

Homework Reading – Children in Year 5 should read at home daily and write a brief synopsis of what they have read (this only needs to be a few sentences) Reading records will be checked in school. At least four reads must be recorded by a Friday. � We will set weekly spelling/ sentence homework on a Friday, which is to be returned the following Friday. Spelling tests will take place on a Friday. � Maths homework will be set on a Friday and is to be retuned the following Friday. Children are also encouraged to access Times Tables Rockstars at home to improve and increase their recall.

Reading Children are assessed in school and are given a levelled book to read at home. They will also choose one of the 100 books for ‘pleasure’ which is kept in their trays. It is important that the children have an understanding of what they are reading which is why we ask them to write a brief synopsis in their reading records. Questioning your child is also a vital part of developing their reading skills so we have provided bookmarks in reading folders to help with questioning.

Holidays during term time We discourage holidays during term time because children do miss out on a lot. Work will NOT be given to anyone missing school due to holidays.

Trips are still allowed (except residentials) under current Covid guidelines and we are in the process of arranging trips for the forthcoming terms.

Working together You can contact us by: Sending in a note with your child. Contact the school office by phone or by email (we are limiting face to face contact) Parents' evenings are due to take place in the Spring term, however dates and the format in which they will happen will be confirmed at a later date. Regular school/ class updates will be available via Parent. App and/ or our school website. All school newsletters and slips will be via Parent. App – only correspondence from outside agencies will be on paper. From September, we commenced our ‘Cashless Office’ which means all payments are to be made through Parent. Pay. Please contact the school office if you have any queries or need help in setting this up.

Working together We are always pleased and happy to welcome volunteers into school so if you have a spare half an hour, half a day or a full day and would like to join our team then please contact the school office. Our current volunteers enjoy a wide range of activities with our children which can include listening to them read, supporting arts, crafts and baking activities and joining us on our school trips. We will always benefit from an extra pair of hands!

Thank you! Please get in touch if you have any questions