healthy and safe learning environment
Year 5
Welcome to Year Five!
Curriculum Plan
Meet the team!
Year 5 is made up of two classes: 5FC and 5HB.
5FC 5HB Class Teacher: Mrs Forrest Class Teacher: Miss Brown
ella.forrest@alwoodley.net hannah.brown@alwoodley.net
Mr Coltman
adrian.coltman@alwoodley.net
Our Learning Support Assistants in Year 5 are Mrs Johnson and Mrs Watson.
Our Class Councillors:
Megan (5FC)
Anirudhan (5HB)
Well done to these children for putting on their green hats sharing their innovative ways in which they can help Alwoodley School grow; I am sure they will both be excellent representatives for Year 5 this term!
Things to remember:
Monday
Reading records are to be returned (with signature and comment)
Mathletics points are reviewed (children must score 1000)
Spelling test (new spellings will be on the school website and on Spelling Shed - they will not be printed)
Tuesday
Library books will be changed
Wednesday
PE kit is needed in school (PE is in the afternoon)
Thursday
Celebration Assembly - children can bring certificates from home
Friday
Maths or SPaG homework need to be returned. New homework will be set.
PE kit is needed for any sporting Golden Time activities
If homework or reading records are not returned, Golden Time will be lost.
Children need to achieve a minimum score of 50% in their spelling tests.
Home Learning
Year 5 spellings - rest of term
Over the coming weeks, on a Monday, the children will be tested on the entire year's statutory spellings. Ten words from the list of 50 will be chosen at random. The complete list is shown below....
The girls showing off how grooving to Samba rhythms should be
Me to you
Samba. Samba. Samba. At the Civic.
Big Samba 2019.....AMAZING!!!
DT at Allerton High - sawing, drilling and sanding. It is all going on for Year 5!!
Headingley Water Treatment Centre.
Here are Year 5's Viking longships. They look absolutely fantastic!
Year 5 designed and built an incredible variety of bridges in DT today. Two of the bridges held 13 kgs (but Mrs Forrest didn't dare put any more on than that!).
A misty morning meander through Buckstone Woods
The Visitor by Ian Serraillier
Matt and Graham from the Moorton fire station came to visit Year 5 on Tuesday to talk about fire safety in the home.
As part of Anti-Bullying Week, 5HB went on strike to raise awareness of bullying; they all definitely had their voices heard!!
5FC painting Magic Alwoodley 'en plein air' just like Monet would have.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recover - Year 5 find out what they need to do.
The Big Recycling challenge; robots take over!!!
Our class novel for this autumn half term is a book by the author Louis Sachar called 'There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom'.
Our significant author in Year 5 is Michael Morpurgo. Have you read any of his books yet? Which one is your favourite?
Other useful resources:
Reading in Year 5
Useful Links
