Year 5 – Class

Our Year 5 Teachers

In Year 5, your teachers are Jez Richardson & Sharon Khan

Interveners are Caroline Gregg, Monika Dyl, Selina Ahmed and Lorna Taylor

They are excited about the learning you are doing in this year group.

Your project questions will be:

Who do you think you are?
Humans or nature: which is most important?
Is war ever right?

Learning Time

There will always be a visual timetable in the classroom.

This is what a day will usually look like:

8:45 – 9:10 Morning activity/Register
9:10 – 9:30 Spellings
9:30 – 10:00 Guided reading
10:10 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:15 English
11:15 – 12:00 Maths
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:15 Register/Mindfulness
1:15 – 2:30 Project
2:30 – 3:00 Assembly
3:00 – 3:30 Storytime

Music

You will learn the Ukele this year. Music lessons are on Friday Morning.

PE/Woodland/BFC

Our PE session is every Friday afternoon
Our Woodland session is every Tuesday afternoon
The swimming pool is coming in November 2025.

Library Visits

We will visit the library once a term.

Assemblies

Monday – R&G, SDGs & UNCRC & Picture News
Tuesday – Singing Assembly
Wednesday – I Wonder Wednesday & Picture Book
Thursday – LYFTA
Friday – Celebration Assembly

Every week you will learn about a different country, artist, music genre and a poem. Singing Assembly will be on Wednesday afternoon.

Playtime

You will play Playworks games with your friends. These will teach you how to take turns, follow rules, lose and win well and be part of a team.

Lunchtime

You will order your lunch in the morning or bring a packed lunch from home.
At lunchtime, you will wash your hands and then eat your lunch in the classroom.
There will be some time to play out, playing Playworks games.

Toilets

If you need the toilet, we will go during the morning break, before lunch and at around 2pm in the afternoon. If you desperately need the toilet at any other point of the day please let an adult in Year 5 know.

Trips, Visits & Celebrations

There will be a school trip linked to a project.
There will be a residential at Beckside Farm near Keswick in the Autumn Term.
We will go to Young Voices in the Spring Term
We will go and listen to the Halle Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall in the Spring Term.
In the Spring term we will experience a Wilderness Day activity with all our friends.
People may visit our class to help with our projects.
We will celebrate Christmas, Eid, Fathers’ Day, Mothers’ Day, World Book Day, Harvest, Easter, birthdays and many other events during the school year.

End of the day

There will always be a story at the end of every day.
At home time, your teachers will take you onto the playground to meet your parents. Please make sure your teacher knows who you are leaving with at the end of the day.