YEAR FIVE
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Year Five
Welcome to Year 5. The DIVERS!
Diving is about…
submerging into the unknown, exploring new possibilities and discovering opportunities through exciting challenges. We will be Surfing to Success on the waves of discovery, learning more about our planet, our oceans and ourselves!
OUR CLASS TEACHER
I am Miss Anderson and I am the proud teacher of Year 5! I feel very lucky to be travelling upwards through the school with my wonderful class and cannot wait to see how they progress in UKS2. My teaching career at St Mary Magdalene’s has already been extremely rewarding as I have learnt so much from the budding writers, scientists, mathematicians and artists. I enjoy sharing my creativity with the children as I have a love of art. I partake in calligraphy design in my spare time and have injected my passion into our welcoming and vibrant learning environment. When I was a school pupil, I loved writing and became fascinated with learning and using new vocabulary. I will continue to share this passion with Year 5 to ensure they develop their own unique flare for writing!
– Miss Anderson

The Divers
Our Class
Extracurricular Activities
PE
If children have earrings in on P.E. days they will not be able to take part in P.E. that day.
Children who have earrings in must either; not wear them on P.E. days or be able to take them out themselves. Staff are not allowed to take them out or tape them over.
Wearing earrings in P.E. represents a potential hazard not only to the wearer but also to other children. Medical advice confirms that jewellery worn in physical education lessons is an unnecessary risk and should be avoided at all times – a risk we at St Mary Magalene’s are not prepared to take whilst your children are on school premises/in our care. Serious accidents have occurred as a result of contact between pupils wearing earrings or studs and other pupils or equipment, thus damaging the ear, or where items of jewellery have caught in apparatus and torn the ear lobe. Thank you for your support and understanding in this matter.
SAT'S
As you may be aware, in Year 2, Key Stage 1 SAT’s will take place during May. Though this may seem a long way off, in reality the children need to prepare now to be ready for the assessments and tests they will undertake.
In addition to the work we are carrying out in school, we kindly ask that you set aside some time each week to support your child in the following areas:
Reading Books
Each child has a reading book from the graded reading scheme. Several pages of this book should be read regularly by the child to an adult, talking about and predicting the story. It is not necessary to read a full book every night. The pages read should be noted in your child’s planner. This will help your child to develop his/her decoding skills and comprehension of the text. We will listen to your child read as much as is possible in school, but cannot stress how important it is that you read with them at home on a regular basis – your input is vital in ensuring your child continues to progress in this area.
Spellings
Every Friday the children receive spelling words to learn. They are tested on these words on the Friday of the following week. The children should choose at least five of the spelling words and put them into exciting and interesting sentences on the back of the spelling sheet. A specific focus for the sentences will be explained to the children when they are given their spelling sheets. (If your child would like to complete all ten of their spelling words into sentences that would be excellent!). Ideally, if an adult is available to help the child with these sentences, it will extend his/her knowledge of vocabulary, punctuation, handwriting, spelling and sentence structure. This will be very beneficial to the development of the child’s writing.
Mathematics
The children in Year 2 are mainly focusing on 2, 5 and 10 times tables, though some children will be introduced to the 3 and 4 times tables. Most weeks the children are asked to revise one or more of these tables.
In addition, homework books are given out on Friday for return to school on the following Friday. This may include worksheets for English or Maths (or both!), to consolidate their learning and understanding in relation to work carried out during that particular week.
BLENDED LEARNING
READ MORE on blended learning guidelines and details of resources to download.
Our News & Activities
Year 5 Dynamic Day 2022
Cohort 2016 15.02.22 Year 5 had a wonderful trip to Blessed Trinity High School on Tuesday. We had four taster sessions comprising of Spanish, Maths, PE and Music.
Year 5 Summer 2 Curriculum Map
Year-5-Summer2-Curriculum-overview
Year 5 Long Term Curriculum Overview 2020-21
Year 5 Curriculum Overview 2020-21