Latchmere School

Year 5

Autumn Term

We hope that you had a lovely summer break. Welcome to the autumn term where we look forward to the continuing partnerships between home and 
school.

As you may be aware, we closely monitor the attendance of pupils at our school as there is clear evidence which shows the correlation between attainment and attendance and pupil well-being.  

We believe working with families is very important, therefore when a child’s attendance falls below 94% we intervene quickly to work with parents to 
identify any barriers to regular school attendance and identify how we can support further. 

Reading
Our goal is to create confident, fluent, independent readers. We prioritise reading at Latchmere School and have very carefully chosen the texts your child will study this term. We focus on word reading to develop fluency and encourage the whole class to join in through strategies such as choral reading (the whole class read together) and echo reading (the teacher models the reading and the class echo back). We also have the Latchmere Reading skills. These are based on comprehension skills such as retrieval, inference, summarising, making links, prediction and vocabulary.

In Year 5, we will be studying The Whale as a class text and excerpts from a selection of books and poetry including Oliver Twist and Frankenstein as our guided reading books. 

Maths

Our curriculum is based on the White Rose Maths programme. This research based initiative ensures that the skills and concepts children taught are fully embedded before moving on. The children are taught strategies such as bar modelling and have plenty of opportunities to use ‘manipulatives’ such as counters and dienes all the way through the school.  

This term we will be focusing on place value, addition and subtraction, fractions and multiplication and division.  

Children should also use the Times Tables Rockstars program to increase their quick recall of multiplication and related division facts.

PE

Pupils will complete indoor and outdoor P.E. lessons during Autumn term every Tuesday. Children will need to wear a Latchmere PE kit to school on a Tuesday. 

Curriculum Highlights

This term, we will learn about rivers and, later in the term, about the Victorian era.  In Science, we will focus on the solar system and materials. 
You can find out more information about the autumn term learning by looking at the overviews and programmes of study on the website. 

Home Learning

Reading books and reading journals should be brought to school every day. In the meantime, we hope that your child will maintain a regular reading habit at home and complete at least two entries per week. This has already been discussed during lessons.  The teacher will inform the children which day their record should be handed in.  We encourage you to still hear your child read at this stage and also for you to read to them.

Spellings will continue as previous years with spellings being handed out on a Monday to practise at home and pupils will be tested on a Thursday.  
Year 5 will also receive one piece of homework weekly in addition to the spellings and reading records record. This will alternate between English and 
Maths homework for the Autumn term. In the Spring term, this will increase to two pieces per week.

Pupils still have access to Times Table Rockstars and Century to further their learning at home. 

Kind regards,

The Year 5 Team

Mr Maguire, Miss Luck and Miss Regan


Key dates

Get to Know You Meeting

Tuesday 15th September at 10:15am

Bikeability (All Week)

Austen - Week beginning 14th September

Wilson - Week beginning 21st September

Coelho - Week beginning 28th September

Riverboat Trip

Austen - 7th October

Wilson - 14th October

Coelho - 15th October

Hindleap Warren Residential

20th - 22nd January 2027


Updates and reminders

  • The children should arrive at school at 8:40 (gates open). At 8:50, children will line up on the playground to come into the classroom.

  • Any break-time snacks should be healthy and not include crisps or sweets.

  • Please ensure that all medication is within date. Please speak directly to the main office regarding medication that is kept in school.

  • Class teachers liaise with their class reps on a regular basis. Please keep an eye out for emails or Whatsapp messages they may send regarding dates, PE kit etc.

  • Please ensure that as the weather gets colder your child comes to school with a coat, hat, gloves etc. They will be allowed to wear these items of clothing in addition to Latchmere PE kit for outdoor PE lessons if it is cold.