Welcome to Year 5
Class Teacher: Mr Tom Riden
Welcome to Year 5. On this page you should find links to our curriculum overview for the year, our current learning enquiry question along with other useful information including home learning expectations.
PE
PE will take place on Monday afternoons and Thursday afternoons. The Thursday session will be led by Mr Riden and the Monday sessions will be run by Torquay United - children can wear their PE kit to school on these days.
Home Learning
Home learning journals will be sent out every Friday and should be completed and returned by the following Thursday. Home Learning includes the following three activities:
"Ready" - a task to help prepare your child for next week's learning.
"Revisit" - a chance to go over previous learning in order to keep it fresh.
"Revise" - extra practice of learning covered in school during the week.
Reading
I ask that the children bring in their reading records daily as there are often opportunities for the children to read with adults, who can then add comments about how the children have read that day. We ask that parents hear children read at home at least three times over the week and sign the reading record book. Children will have daily opportunities to change their reading books and know how to do so independently.
Spellings
In addition to a weekly spelling lesson, children will collect spellings that they have misspelt in their learning journals. These will be sent home to practise and learn in their reading record books. The children will also learn a spelling rule each week as part of their spelling lessons. The Year 3/4 and 5/6 spellings can be found in the centre of the record book.
Thank you.
Mr Riden.
If you would like to support your children further at home then please follow the links to the right to support in a variety of ways:
1) Curriculum Map: to see what our learning has been and will be.
2) Recommended reads: Year 5 levelled reading from 'good' authors, which we as Galmpton staff love and would recommend.
3) Spooky spellings, Spelling Shed, TT rockstars and Hit the button are all links to useful websites helping support your children's learning of spellings and timetables.
Finally- The Key Performance Indicators for year 5 give you an understanding of the expectations of year 5 learning in both maths and writing.