Year 5

Your teacher is Mrs Gerrish and your Learning Support Assistant is Mrs Hussein.

Welcome to Year 5

Year 5 is predominately taught by Mrs Gerrish, with Mrs Hussein as your Learning Support Assistant. P.E lessons will be carried out by our Sports coach, Mr Pearce, on a Thursday afternoon - please ensure children come in wearing PE kit.

In Spring and Summer, Children will also have 1 hour of PE with the class teacher.

Forest school will be carried out by Miss Bishop (our Forest School Leader) on Wednesday in the Autumn Term. Children will need to wear appropriate forest school attire for this. Below is our Timetable for the Autumn Term.

Homework

Spellings - Children will receive new spellings lists in their yellow folderes on a Monday. These should be learnt at home daily and returned on Friday ready for our spelling tests.

Reading - Children should read for 15minutes at home everyday - including weekends! They should read about 10 pages of their homework book and if they have time another book of their choice for pleasure. Both can be recorded in the reading records - but homework books should be read and recorded first as this helps us check their reading level.

Maths - Maths homework will be sent home on Fridays in blue folders. This should be done and returned by Monday. 

If you have any questions about homework, please speak to Mrs Gerrish or Mrs Hussein.

Mrs Gerrish's Favourite Reads

As some of you may know, Mrs Gerrish loves to read (especially fantasy)! Here are some of my suggested reads for Year 5:

• The Harry Potter Series
• Cogheart
• The Great Stink
• The Mermaid in the Millpond
• How to Train your Dragon
• Mystery in the Palace of Westminster
• Tom's Midnight Garden

Useful Info for Home

Twitter: @WooburnGreenGLT

Facebook: Wooburn Green Primary School

Writing Support - To support your child with writing at home, simply ask them to write you a story or diary. Grab some handwriting books from Amazon or WHSmith to support with joined handwriting.

Maths Support - Practise Timestables or other Maths concepts through online games like, TopMarks, Timestables RockStars, SplashLearn or BBC Bitesize.