Oak (Year 5)

Welcome to Year 5 – 2023-2024

Miss Tree and Mrs Martin would like to welcome you all to Oak.

An Outline of Our Learning

In Maths, we follow the White Rose curriculum, which involves using concrete and pictorial methods to solve fluency calculations, problem solving and reasoning.

We are also developing the children maths mastery by following a new Maths Mastery programme, whereby the children will develop a solid foundation for conceptual reasoning.

In English, we are following the Pathways to Write Programme and linking other select texts to our Connected Learning. Our key texts this term are: Queen of the Falls and then Varjak Paw as well as looking at suspense writing. There is a key focus on vocabulary for writing as well as editing and improving our grammar, spelling and punctuation, we look at specific rules and patterns each week and complete regular spelling activities.

In reading, the children will continue reading their home books and guided reading texts. Once they finish reading a book, they need to take an Accelerated Reader quiz. Our aim is an average of 85% and above.

Our Connected Learning big question for Term 1 is...

How can you break a World Record?

Although there is no formal homework in Year 5, we would appreciate you reading daily with your child and practising spellings and times tables as this will have an impact with their confidence in lessons. We will also set termly homework challenges linked to our learning, please see the link below. This can be brought into class during the term or shared on Seesaw so we can then share in class.

Children will be provided with ALL Log in information in the back of the children's reading records.

Please note for Term 1:

Monday = PE (PE kits)

Thursday = PE for Elm and Forest School for Oak (PE kits, forest school clothes, waterproof coats and wellies)

Please contact the office (on 01233 614660 or email on office@john-wesley.org.uk if you have any questions or would like to arrange a time to talk. The children also have their contact book and reading journal which you can write notes in to communicate with us.

Kind regards,

Miss Tree (Class Teacher) Mrs Martin (TA)