Welcome to Year 5 – Sensible Seahorses & Joyful Jellyfish

The team for the 2021-2022 academic year are:

Sensible Seahorses
Mrs Pant (Class Teacher)
Mrs Bahl (LSA for both Year 5 classes)

Joyful Jellyfish
Mrs Sharda (Class Teacher-Monday to Wednesday)
Mrs Thakkar (Class Teacher-Thursday and Friday)

Dear Parents/Carers

Homework to be set on GC from end of week 2. In the interim, please see the homework menu for your children to work on below.

Year 5 Homework

Thanks

Mrs Sharda and Mrs Pant

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Here is a list of the spelling rules for Year Five. Please refer to these as they will inform your child’s homework.

Spelling I can…
S.1 I can spell word endings which sound like ‘shus’ spelt -cious

or -tious e.g. vicious, delicious, ambitious, cautious.
S.2 I can spell word endings which sound like ‘shil’ spelt -cial or

-tial e.g. official, partial.
S.3 I can spell words ending in -ant, -ance/-ancy, -ent, -ence/-ency e.g. tolerant/tolerance, transparent/transparency.
S.4 I can spell words ending in -able and -ible, also -ably and –ibly e.g. adorable, possible, adorably, possibly.
S.5 I can spell words containing the letter-string ‘ough’ e.g. bought, rough, through, bough.
S.6 I can spell some words with ‘silent’ letters e.g. knight, psalm, solemn.
S.7 I can spell some more complex words correctly including words that are often misspelt.
S.8 I can use knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes in spelling and understand that the spelling of some words needs to be learnt specifically.
S.9 I can use the first three or four letters of a word to check spelling, meaning, or both of these in a dictionary.
S.10 I can use a thesaurus.

Dear Parents/Carers,

Please see the curriculum overviews below. Kindly have a look a the attached documents and discuss with your children what they have covered as they progress through the terms. At times, we may link subjects together for enhanced learning opportunities. Encourage your children to share what they have learnt from the overviews to enable meaningful and engaging conversations about their learning.

Year 5 Curriculum Information Sheet Autumn 1

Year 5 Curriculum Information Sheet Autumn 2

Year 5 Spring 1 Curriculum Overview 2021-22

Year 5 Spring 2 Curriculum Overview 2021-22

Year 5 Summer 1 Curriculum Overview 2021-22

Year 5 Curriculum Map 2021 to 2022

BHM posters 5JJ 

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14.10.2021

Please find attached the presentation from the Year 5 and 6 SPaG workshop. You can find links to support in ‘useful links’

Year 5 6 Parents SPAG

10.09.2021

Please find attached the presentation from the Year 5 Parent Curriculum Meeting.

Year 5 Parent Curriculum presentation