Welcome to Year 5 at DWE

Welcome to Year 5!

Welcome to Year 5!

Year 5 is a brilliant year, full of lots of interesting topics and activities that we are sure you will love. The year 5 teachers are Miss Barclay and Miss Longley.

You will enter and leave school from the KS2 entrance. At lunch time, you go out of the classroom and onto the playground through the KS2 exit. At home time, you will leave through here and be collected from the back playground. Parents/carers can wait for you just inside the school gate. Your teachers will see you out at the end of the day and also have the opportunity to have a brief chat to any parents.

In year 5, we ask all children to bring a water bottle (with their name clearly displayed) to school each day. This must contain water only, in-keeping with our healthy school status. Children will continue to bring their book bag to school each day. This must be a school book bag, to ensure that it will fit in your child’s tray. This should contain: the child's planner, school reading book, spelling book and homework book.
This year, children are able to bring in their own small pencil case, which will be kept in their tray or in a box in the classroom.

Year 5 Teachers

Miss Barclay
5B

Miss Longley
5L

The Year 5 Curriculum

In the classroom, you will learn lots of new facts and skills. Year 5 is very similar to year 4, as we do the same subjects: Maths, Literacy, Drama, History, Science, Geography, Computing, P.E., Art, Design and Technology, French, P.S.H.E., R.E. and Music.

We cover lots of interesting topics in year 5, our personal favourites are the Tudors, the Ancient Greeks and Space.

P.E.

Each child needs a plain P.E. t-shirt in their house colour, back or navy blue shorts and a pair of pumps. For outdoor P.E., each child needs a tracksuit top, jogging bottoms and trainers. These should be in school every. Footwear for P.E. must be different to children's normal school shoes. Children must not wear jewellery for P.E. and must either remove earrings or cover them with plasters brought from home.

Toilets and Cloakroom

In Year 5, you will use the same toilets as you did in year 4. These are located just outside the classrooms and the KS2 entrance.

You will have a new cloakroom, with your own peg, to hang your coat and P.E. kit on. These are also just outside the classrooms and the KS2 entrance. If you bring a lunch box to school, this goes on the shelf above your peg but make sure you don't put it under the heaters, as your lunch will be warm!

Homework

Maths homework will be set for children to complete on a weekly basis. The homework will be given out each Thursday and will be collected in on Wednesday. If children struggle with homework at home, please inform the class teacher before Wednesday, so they are able to go through it again.

Children will be given 8 spellings to practise each week. These spellings will be tested in our weekly Spelling Bee. Children will be put into mixed Spelling Bee groups, who will compete against each other.

Children should also continue to read to an adult each day, for at least 10 minutes. This should be recorded in their planner, in order to complete the reading challenge.

Rewards and Sanctions

We have behaviour rules in our classroom to ensure a safe and happy learning environment. Each class starts with 20 minutes of Golden Time each week. Golden Time can be added for good behaviour or taken away for not following the rules.

In Year 5, we stay in our house teams: Walliams, Rowling, Donaldson and Dahl. For good work, following our school rules or for being kind and helpful, you will be given house points. House points are then added up by the Year 5 monitors at the end of each week and a running score is kept to the end of the year. The winning house is rewarded each week. We also get individual rewards for every 100 house points and these follow the planets of the solar system.

Each week, one child from each class will be selected as 'Pupil of the Week' for good behaviour, following the rules or working hard.

If we do not follow our school rules, the following will happen:
1. Warning and name on the board
2. 3 minutes off Golden Time
3. A note or phone call home

We are really looking forward to having you back to school in September and to meeting our new classes. We hope you will have a fantastic year and enjoy our topics, as much as we do!

If you have any questions, that we haven't covered in this booklet, please don't hesitate to contact school.

We hope you have a lovely summer.

Miss Barclay and Miss Longley