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    • Year 5

    Welcome to Year 5

    Mrs Pinkerton with Miss Bohdjalian 

    year5@holytrinityprimary.org

    Welcome to Autumn term in Year 5.  Our values for this term are friendship and truthfulness under the banner of forgiveness.  Our PE days this term are Monday (gymnastics) and Tuesday (benchball).

    1. Welcome to Year 5 Presentation - 2025 to 2026
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    Curriculum

    Information for Parents

    Click here for Year 5 Autumn Timetable

    Homework

    Maths and English homework will be handed out on Wednesdays for return the following Monday. On occasion, the children may also receive a piece of homework related to one of our other topics in Geography, History, Science or RE.

    Spellings will be studied and handed out on a Tuesday and tested the following Tuesday in our spelling lesson.

    General Reminders 

     

    • Hair that is long enough to be tied back please do so fully using a green or hair-coloured band. 
    • No nail varnish please.
    • Plain gold / silver stud earrings only.
    • Your child may wear a watch or Fitbit but these must be removed for P.E.
    • No other jewellery such as friendship bands etc is permitted.
    • If your child wears a religious adornment, please let me know.

    Absolutely NO NUTS in school please.

    Useful Documents and Links

    Reading

    Please try to hear your child read  every day, just for 10 minutes. It really does make a difference! We read our reading scheme books in class each day so the children can choose whether to read their coloured band books or another text at home.  The key is talking about the book and for the adult to ask lots of questions about the text and any unfamiliar vocabulary.  Example reading questions can be found below.

    I would like to challenge the children to read as many books from the suggested reading list as possible. It really does make a difference! They will be celebrated in the classroom so please let me know once they've completed a book and email a photograph of them with the book. They can read the books themselves or have them read to them. We have a class library, which they can borrow most of the books from.

    1. Year 5 Class Texts
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    2. KS2 Reading Questions
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    3. Reading questions for parents Years 5 & 6
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    4. Inference
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    5. Reading at Holy Trinity
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    Writing

    1. Writing Workshop – Year 5
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    2. Years 4 & 5 Writing Essentials
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    3. Year 5 Writing Support - improving sentences
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    Spelling 

    1. Years 5 & 6 spelling word list
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    2. Years 3 & 4 spelling word list
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    3. Spelling expectations
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    English Websites

    Maths Websites 

    Recently, we have explored a new Maths game which the children can play at home to practise their Maths skills.  It is a BBC Bitesize game called Guardians: Defenders of Mathematica.  A link is below. Please note that you will need a BBC account to save progress.

    In Year 5, we sometimes have fun challenging ourselves to solve Countdown style maths puzzles.  The children are shown a set of number cards and a target number and had to solve it using their knowledge of the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) and their times tables.

    It is a great way to improve fluency and practice calculations (even if you don't end up with the target answer). I join in with the children and sometimes they see the answer before me!  Ask them to explain their method as mistakes are made.

    The website we use is called NRich and is available here: https://nrich.maths.org/countdown/main.html  We use level 2 and level 3 - the level can be selected under the settings icon in the top right corner.

    Other Useful Websites 

     

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