Hello and welcome to Year 5!
We work hard and always try our best. We are building our self belief and resilience.
Meet the team:
Year 5
Mr Buckton
Class Teacher
Miss Gray
Class Teacher
Mrs Gillies
Teaching Assistant
Miss Hey
Teaching Assistant (1-1)
Meet the Teacher Information
Year 5 Termly Newsletters
Year 5 Curriculum Map
Reading:
Please try and read with your child every night. Really focus on asking questions about their book as this will help them with their reading comprehension.
Finally, if there are any questions or concerns please feel free to speak to any of us before or after the school day.
Keep in touch by checking our page often and discover what we are learning about through our regular blog posts!
Home Learning:
We use Google Classroom as the main source of home school learning.
We find this works really well with our Chromebooks in school and allows children to pick up their tasks and work from their devices at home.
The link to our Google classroom is here: Y5 Google Classroom 2024-25 (Login details are required to access)
Our Trips:
In Year 5, we have exciting trips planned to the following places:
Autumn term: CHET Residential (Crosby Hall Education Trust)
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Opening Evenings October 2024
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KS2 Harvest Festival
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Open Evening
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Related Blog Posts
Drawing and Painting - Hundertwasser
During this term we have been looking at the work of Freidensreich Hundertwasser.
Using his paintings as our inspiration we designed and painted our own versions of his work.
Musical Hieroglyphics
In this lesson we explored using hieroglyphics as musical symbols.
After listening to The Bangles, ‘Walk like an Egyptian’, we discussed what symbols would be suitable to go along with the song.
In pairs, we created our own composition using hieroglyphics and selected suitable sounds to go…
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Investigating Hands Spans
In this lesson, we looked at the different ways and reasons why children are measured and weighed.
As a class, we measured our hands spans and then took an average for the class, boys and girls.
Our conclusion was, ‘the larger the handspan, the taller the person.’