Year 5 - Spring Curriculum Newsletter
A warm welcome back to the Spring term from the Year 5 team!
We hope you find this letter informative; please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries using our new inbox: year5@broadford.havering.sch.uk
Homework:
Our expectation at Broadford is that every child should do the following every night:
● 15 minutes reading to themselves or an adult (signed in the reading record)
● 15 minutes practising spellings in their spelling book
● 15 minutes rehearsing times tables facts (including multiplication and division)
Mathletics and Times Table Rock Stars:
Every child should have their logins for the above platforms, which means they can access their accounts outside of school. Both websites offer valuable resources that can support your child’s learning in Maths so please encourage your child to use them.
Spellings:
Spellings will be given out on Mondays. The children should practice their words every evening. Spelling books and reading records must be brought in on Fridays, which is also when the weekly test happens. This will be closely monitored and rewarded!
P.E Lessons
There is a slight change to the PE day for Year 5, sorry for any inconvenience caused. Maple will continue their swimming lessons until Wednesday 25th January. Willow class will then begin their swimming lessons on Wednesday 1st February. The classes that are not swimming will have their PE in the afternoon on a Wednesday. Children are expected to come into school in their normal uniform but bring (in a named bag) an appropriate PE uniform for their lessons in the afternoon - black/grey/navy shorts or tracksuit and a white polo shirt.
Reading Books
As reading is such a priority, we will try to make sure children’s books are regularly changed and every child will read 1:1 with an adult at least once a week. Please remind the children to let any adults know if they need to change their book and that it is their responsibility to bring any old reading books back to school. The children are strongly encouraged to read books from the 105 books to read at Broadford list. The children all have trackers for these books which the teacher will check off for them.
School Uniform
It has been wonderful to see the Year 5 pupils return to school looking very smart in their school uniform. Please be reminded that the school colours are grey and navy. All school uniform is available through Premier School Wear.
Key Dates
Curriculum Information
We have included a summary of the topics which the children will be covering this term on the following page. If you would like to make any suggestions of what you or your child would like to learn in relation to the topics taught, please inform your child’s class teacher. We welcome any suggestions you may have.
Mersea
Please be aware that the Mersea trip needs to be paid in full by 12th May 2023. We will be holding further meetings about the trip closer to our departure.
We look forward to the year ahead and are sure it will be full of fabulous learning experiences!
To contact us, please send an email to: year5@broadford.havering.sch.uk
Yours sincerely,
Year 5 Team
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