Hello and Welcome to Year 5

Our class email address is: purple@cka.srscmat.co.uk

Parents are welcome to use this email address to contact class teachers with any questions regarding their child’s learning, homework, personal updates or details of class specific events. Please ensure class teachers have your up to date email address and that you have been added to the class mailing list. Please use the main school email address enquiries@cka.srscmat.co.uk for absence notifications or general questions relating to trips, contact information updates, school dinners or any other enquiries.

Our class Gospel value is gratitude. We believe gratitude is important because it allows us to be thankful for our friends, family and the world around us. We try to show gratitude by using manners and being respectful to each other. We look after the world around us to show God that we are thankful.

We nurture the children’s development of hope by encouraging…

  • Imagination
  • Resilience
  • Goal setting
  • Curiosity
  • Autonomy

Our curriculum has been carefully designed to achieve this, based on research about how children learn best.  Your learning will be broken down into small steps that should enable you to build your knowledge piece by piece and to help you to have that knowledge at your fingertips whenever you need it.  We give you lots of opportunities to revisit and retrieve this knowledge throughout the year and we encourage you to think about what you have learnt before and how this knowledge helps you as a starting point for building new knowledge.  Our curriculum has golden threads woven throughout it, these drive our curriculum, helping you to make links and to build knowledge.  These golden threads are Communication, Sustainability and Stewardship and Freedom.  It is also important that your learning is relevant to your life and can help you to make better choices as you grow and develop.  Our mission statement sets out the virtues we try to display at all times in school and together, through our curriculum, we learn about a diverse range of people who give us good examples of these virtues in their lives.

We look forward to seeing you thrive this year and into the future, walking together in Christ to try and become the best that we can be – We Can and We Will follow in Jesus’ footsteps!

Below, you will find some useful information about life in Year 5.

Children will need their waterproof coat every Thursday to take swimming, a bottle filled with water, a bag for reading books and homework and a packed lunch (if required). Pencil cases and other school equipment will be provided for children by school.

In Year 5, the children have one breaktime in the morning. For this time, they are welcome to bring a healthy snack with them to eat during break. Lunch time is 1 hour.

Homework will be handed out every Friday and will be due in the following Wednesday.

Spellings will be handed out every Friday and the test will be taken on the following Thursday.

Our PE day is Monday. The children will need to wear: black or navy jogging bottoms, or shorts a yellow PE top, trainers and a navy or black jumper.

We will attend swimming lessons for 5 weeks of every term on Thursdays – on these weeks, please send your child with a bag containing a towel, goggles (if needed), swimming trunks or a one piece swimming costume.

Meet the Staff for this Class

Teacher

Miss Smith

Teaching Assistants

Mrs Patton

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