A Typical Year 5 Day

Children are expected to arrive at school by 8:45am with morning lessons commencing at 8:55am. Spelling, Guided Reading, English and Maths are taught each morning. Afternoon lessons vary from day to day to include Geography, Science, Art, French and many other exciting subjects.

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Every classroom has a current timetable and visual timetable up on their class noticeboard so that the children know what to expect from each day. 

What to Bring

In Year 5, children should be organised and responsible for their own belongings and school equipment in preparation for secondary school. 

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They should wear their P.E kit to school on a Thursday and Friday and also bring their swimming kits with them on a Friday. Pupils should ensure that their PE kit is smart and follows the school uniform policy. 
 
Homework is set half termly and at the end of a half term we celebrate this in our year group assembly. Every half term a new homework grid will be uploaded onto Weduc. 
 
Children will be given the list of spellings they will be learning each half term to practise at home as well as daily in school. 

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The children should read at least five times each week, and ensure that they write in their Reading Diary, get it signed by an adult and bring it into school. These are checked every Tuesday.
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Year 5 Expectations

Year 5 is an important year for the children at IJS, they now form part of the upper school and must start being role models for the rest of the school.

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The children are supported throughout the year via interventions, catch-up sessions and after-school clubs as well as the usual high-quality teaching all children receive in the year group.

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At home, parents and carers can also do their bit by:

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• Simply asking, ‘What have you learnt today?’

• Listening to their child read 5 times a week.

• Encouraging them to practise spellings and timestables 

Trips and Opportunities

Despite all of the hard work in Year 5, the children still get the opportunity to experience some wonderful trips and events at school. 

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Children in Year 5 get the opportunity to go to Burghley Park supporting their History lessons around the Tudors. This is a wonderful trip that teaches pupils all about sixteenth century history. As well as this, children go on a local walk around New Parks in the summer term where they learn about the history of their local area, linking to their local area history topic. 

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In Year 5, the children also have the opportunity to learn about Space. We have a ‘Wonderdome’ experience in school where children enhance their learning in their Science ‘Earth and Space’ topic. 

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It is not only out of school where the children get to experience lots of fun learning opportunities. In Year 5, the opportunities for learning are endless and include:

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• Biomes in Geography 

• Creating Reading journals in Reading   

• Sports Clubs and Competitions in P.E 

• Learning to write their own song in Computing

• Making a pop-up book in Design Technology

• Ramadan and Eid performance

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Attendance

As with all year groups at Inglehurst, it is expected that your child attends school every day with any necessary absences being reported to the office as soon as possible. Each day in school is a new opportunity for learning and due to the quick pace of Year 5, it is essential that the children are in school every day to ensure they do not miss out on any learning or opportunities.

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At the end of each term, every child with 100% attendance will have 50 TrackIt Lights credited to their account to help them achieve our TrackIt rewards. ​

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Year 5 Readers

Reading for pleasure is a focus in Year 5 as it is across the school and we enjoy hearing all our children read regularly and we read to them daily. We all have our favourite authors and books which we share with each other. In school we have a well-stocked library and we encourage children to read a range of books.
 

Below is just a small selection of some of the wonderfully inspiring books your children may wish to read throughout Year 5:

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• Street Child by Berlie Doherty 

• When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle

• Varjak Paw by SF Said

• Thief by Malorie Blackman

• The Girl who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson

• October October by Katya Balen

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Please let us know if you have any special requests for new books as we are very happy to order them. 

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Your Well-Being

In Year 5, as in the whole school, we consider the well-being and the mental health of our children to be of great importance. We understand that school can sometimes by challenging for our children emotionally and physically and we offer a wide range of support to help them adapt to change and growing up. We check in daily with all children in the class first thing in the morning. We also have Growth Mindset/ Wellbeing scheduled into our weekly timetable.