Year 5 | Broomhill Junior School

Welcome to Year 5!

Respect Relationships Resilient Reflective Responsible

A very warm welcome to Year 5 from Mr Langford, Mrs Burdass, Miss Broderick, Mr Wilson, Mrs Turner and Miss Locke! This year, our teaching assistants are Miss Wint, Mr Priestley, Miss Dawson and Miss Pearson.

Children in year 5 will be taught English and Maths in their year groups.

The three year 5 teachers are Mrs Turner, Mr Langford and Mr Wilson.

Children are now entering upper KS2 and as well as getting ready for new challenges, they will now become role models to our younger children. Throughout Year 5, children will be exploring a variety of exciting and engaging cross-curricular topics.

Our current topic, for the Summer term is 'Our Continent'. During this topic, children will learn about the different countries and landmarks in Europe. We will be exploring different works of art by different artists and listening to music from different countries. Children will also explore different foods from different countries in Europe in Design and Technology lessons.

All of the topics in Year Five have a Creative Homework Project linked to them, which will give your child the opportunity to showcase their talents, strengths and interests. This will be shared on our website and on Class Dojo.

PE kits need to be kept in school on a Thursday and Friday this term please.

Thursday pm- Athletics- for all children

Friday pm- Team building skills with Corporal Butcher

Our SEAL topic for this half term is 'Relationships'.

During this topic, children will learn how to form meaningful relationships, how to give each other compliments, how to work in groups effective and how to deal with feelings of embarrassment.

The 4Rs we will be focusing on this half term will be Respect and Relationships.

If you ever have any problems or concerns, please see a member of the Year Five team at the beginning or end of the school day; or by phoning the school office. Here at Broomhill, we have an open door policy and welcome parents into school.

We shall all look forward to a brilliant year with Year Five!

Class Dojo

Support your child with their behaviour at in school by signing up to Class Dojo.

https://www.classdojo.com

We will use ClassDojo to communicate with you. By using the app, we can provide your child with positive points for a variety of reasons. It also allows us to instantly share messages, updates and photos from the class.

You will need to receive a code from your child's class teacher to see all the benefits.

Homework expectations:

We expect children to read as much as possible. Children in year 5 should be reading daily.
Children are given a spelling test weekly (every Thursday), so we expect children to practise their spellings at home. We have one practice session in school to help children with this. Spelling lists will be put on Class Dojo weekly.
In addition to this, we will often give children English or maths related homework on a Friday. This is always due in on the following Friday. Again, this will be put on Class Dojo.