Friday, 12 January 2024

Year 5 Newsletter - Spring Term

 Friday 12th January 2024

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 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) 


Sumdog and Times Table Rock Stars:

Every child has now received their login details for Sumdog and Times Table Rockstars, 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 practise 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.


P.E Lessons, Swimming and Forest School 

Almond and Lime classes  will have PE lessons every Thursday afternoon. Children are expected to come to school in their PE uniform - black/grey/navy shorts or trousers and a white polo shirt. Please ensure all PE kit items have a name clearly on them. 


This year all children will participate in Forest School, which will also take place on Tuesday afternoons.  In preparation for your child's first session, please send into school, for your child, a pair of tracksuit/jogging trousers and a pair of welly boots/old trainers/walking boots, in a named carrier bag.  These can stay in school. Please make sure that children have weather appropriate attire, so that they can fully enjoy the sessions, even on a rainy day!


Oak class will be swimming every Wednesday from the 10th January 2024. Children in Oak class should come to school in their PE kit on Wednesdays.  

Children will require:

● swimming trunks or one piece-costume

● a swimming hat (please write your child’s name in large letters on the outside of the hat with a permanent marker)

● towel

NB: Watches must not be worn during swimming sessions


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


Spring 1 

Spring 2 

Wednesday 10th  January


Oak class begin their swimming lessons

Monday 26th February 

Return to school 

Thursday 11th January 

Year 5 trip to Hornchurch Country Park. 

Friday 8th March 

National Girls Football Day

Friday 12th January 

University of Broadford begins

Thursday 25th January 

Stay and Learn - 9am

Friday 2nd February 

NSPCC Number Day 

Thursday 14th March 

Knife Crime Workshop 

Thursday 8th February

Dress to Express Day

Friday 22nd March 

Parent Open Forum - 1pm 

Friday 9th February 

Parent Open Forum - 9am

Thursday 28th March 

Easter Parade

Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th February 

Parents Evening





Curriculum Information

We have included a summary of the topics which the children will be covering this term below. 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. 


We look forward to meeting you over the next few weeks; please do come and see us if you have any questions at all or if you would like to offer yourself as additional support on any upcoming trips. 


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, 




Miss Wyatt

Year 5 Lead

Miss Bell and Ms O’Sullivan

Almond Class Teachers

Miss Wyatt and Miss Kayler 

Lime Class Teachers

Miss Brimmer

Oak Class Teacher





















Spring Term


1st Half Term

2nd Half Term

Literacy

Text: Letters from the Lighthouse

Letters from the Lighthouse


Please fill in the reading journal after hearing your child read. For a good selection of children’s books, visit your local library. Useful websites: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zv48q6f

http://www.magickeys.com/books/ 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds 

Maths

Multiplication and Division 

Fractions


Decimals and Percentages
Perimeter and Area


It is essential for the children to know all of their time tables so that they can access the mathematics curriculum in Year 6. Please encourage your child to practise on TTRockstars every evening to improve their speed and accuracy. 

Here are some useful websites to support your child with their learning at home:

Corbett Maths Primary 

Sumdog - all children have been given a log in for this

ICT

Video Production 

Flat-file Databases 

Science

Properties of Materials 

Changes of Materials 

History/Geography

History: World War Two 

Geography: Climate Change 

RE

Why is prayer important for religious believers? 

What do religions say to us when life gets hard? 

PSHE

Keeping Safe 

Rights and Respect 

PE

Swimming (Oak class)

Dance and Football (Lime class)

Volleyball and Rounders (Almond class) 

Music

Pop Ballads - Make You Feel My Love 

Hip Hop - Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 

Art/Design and Technology

Set Design 

Structures 

French

That’s Tasty

Family and Friends

Trips

11th January - Hornchurch Country Park


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