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

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 on the following days. Children will need to wear a Latchmere PE kit to school on the following days:

Austen – Monday and Tuesday

Wilson – Monday and Tuesday

Coelho – Tuesday and Wednesday

Shakespeare – Tuesday and Wednesday

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. The reading records have space for keeping a record of books read, and every third or so page has a creative space where your child can make a response to the book they are currently reading.  The teacher will have informed 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. We would really value a parental comment in the book each week as this shows the children that we have a partnership with you and take reading very seriously. 

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.

We are currently reviewing our approach to homework and more information will be shared with parents as part of the Get To Know You Meeting.

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

Kind regards,

The Year 5 Team

Mr Maguire, Mrs Williams, Mr Cooper and Mrs Board