Ranked 49th out of 16,783 in The Sunday Times Parent Power league tables of the best primary schools in England. The ranking is based upon average scores in English, grammar and maths.
Ranked 49th out of 16,783 in The Sunday Times Parent Power league tables of the best primary schools in England. The ranking is based upon average scores in English, grammar and maths.
Latchmere School

Year 5

SUMMER TERM

We hope that you had a lovely Easter break. Welcome to the summer term where we look forward to a calendar full of exciting events and learning.

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 continue to study The Adventures of Odysseus for the next few weeks, and then we will move on to study native tales from North America, some narrative poetry, and finally we will dip into one of Shakespeare’s best loved tragedies: Romeo and Juliet. In guided reading we will read a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts with a focus on comprehension techniques and responding to questioning.

Maths

Our curriculum is based on the White Rose Maths programme. This researchbased initiative ensures that the skills and concepts children are 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 properties of shape, co-ordinates, position and direction, converting units, measuring volume and further work on decimals.Children should also use the Times Tables Rockstars program to increase their quick recall of multiplication and related division facts. Century is also available for use at home to reinforce understanding of concepts delivered in school.

Curriculum Highlights

This term, we continue to learn about Ancient Greece before moving on to study aspects of North America. In Science, we will focus on life cycles and growing up and growing old. We will also have a couple of lessons based on puberty which will form part of our relationships and sex education programme (within PHSE). A separate letter and PowerPoint will be sent to you shortly to providemore details and the content to be covered.
You can find out more information about the summer 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 listen to 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. 

Home learning for this term will be either based on either maths or English and the children will be set one piece each week from Thursday 1st May to Thursday 22nd May, and again from 5th June to 10th July. Please encourage and support your child to use Times Table Rockstars and Century to assist their learning. If your child does not yet know their tables to 12 x 12 for instant recall, then we suggest that they access TTRS on a daily basis. Also, if your child finds spelling tricky, then daily work Century should help their progress. We will be encouraging the children to use these programs with class and year group competitions.

Thank you in advance for all of your support in the final term,

Kind regards,

The Year 5 Team


Key dates

Year 5 Swimming - Week commencing 28th April

Morning lessons, Monday to Thursday. Please refer to the letter from Mr Pool

Greek Workshop - Wednesday 14th May

Children should come dressed in 'Ancient Greek' clothing. This can either be a full outfit or maybe just a long white shirt with a belt or rope tied around the waist. 

Sports Week - Week commencing 2nd June 

Latchmere Goes Global Week - Week commencing 16th June

KS2 Sports Day - Monday 19th May 

Romeo and Juliet Workshops - Date TBC


Updates and reminders

  • The children should arrive at school between 08:45 and 08:55, and if they have a morning snack it should be a healthy one.
  • 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.