Year 5 @ Mount Street Primary 

Welcome to the Autumn Term in Year 5!

Hopefully you all had a restful break and are ready for this term’s new learning.

This year, our class will be named after the inspirational person Stephen Hawking. He was a theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author who changed our perception of space and proposed the theory of ‘Hawking Radiation.’ Throughout Stephen’s life, he always valued education and was curious about anything and everything in the Universe. Stephen faced many challenges in his life due to his ongoing and difficult battle with motor neuron disease but he never gave up. He once said “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” This is something that all of us should be inspired by.

Class work:

We will provide you with pencils, rulers, rubbers, colouring pencils and handwriting pens for those with a licence.  We ask that pencil cases are left at home as there is nowhere to store them safely in class.

Home learning: 

English and Maths: Weekly homework for both English and maths will be given every Monday and needs to be handed in by the following Monday. These will be activities based on knowledge they have been taught the previous week. 

Spellings: There will be weekly tests. New spellings will be given on a Friday and the children have a week to learn them. 

Times Tables:  TT Rock Stars daily.

Games and PE:

Children will need to wear their PE kit to school  on a Tuesday and Wednesday for our PE sessions. Children MUST have P.E. kit to take part for health and safety reasons.  Children with long hair must have it tied back for PE lessons and stud earrings must be covered with tape that is brought from home or they will need to be removed.

Kit: Trainers, coloured t-shirt and navy blue hoodie (provided by us),  blue/black shorts, black trainers or plimsols.

As ever, if you have any questions or queries, please do get in touch via Dojo or the school office.  We will always do our best to answer any questions as soon as possible.

Miss Matthews and Miss Zarezadeh (Mrs Gocher)

Reading

Reading is at the heart of everything we do. We ask that you read with your child for 20 minutes daily and record this in their reading diary at least once a week. They will be coming home with two A.R. books daily and will 'quiz' on these in class. This should be an enjoyable time with your child and please encourage them to have a conversation with you about their book. 

Author Study

We will continue our love of reading by enjoying 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' by C.S.Lewis. Later on in the term, we will be going to the Theatre Royal to watch this story unfold on stage! 

Useful Information

E-Safety

As so many of us are spending more and more time online, it is important that the children have a secure knowledge of how to be safe.  We will discuss various issues regarding this each week.  If your child or yourself have any questions linked to their online world, then please do not hesitate to get in touch or have a look at some of the links below.

Useful Links