Year 5 – Kestrels
Welcome to Kestrels!
Hello and welcome to Kestrels class, we are an awesome bunch taught by Mrs Fahey, supported by Mr Goodson.
Year 5 is a really amazing year where we will grow in confidence and independence. Our class expectations are to work as a team, to be more responsible, to listen to others, to show respect, to be kind and helpful and most of all… do our best!
We have lots of amazing learning planned for the year ahead and cannot wait to share it with you!
Key information:
- P.E days are Wednesdays and Thursdays. Pupils should come to school in P.E kit on this day.
- We use Times Tables Rockstars and Spelling Shed for homework.
- Handwriting and spellings are practiced daily in school but please support this learning at home with access to EDshed. Our weekly spelling test is on Friday.
Please encourage the children to continue using TTRS / Numbots to solidify that multiplication knowledge as we move to more complex maths. This will help tremendously! Their logins are in their reading records along with their weekly spellings to practice offline if preferred.
As always regular reading practice is essential to developing their pace and fluency and building the comprehension skills that will support them across the curriculum. It is so important that even confident readers practice reading out loud, especially as they will encounter trickier vocabulary that they may not know and miss the true meaning of what they are reading. We have told the children that they can write in their journals if an adult signs it off. We will also be encouraging daily reading in school independently or with an adult.
Our half termly class newsletters can be found on Class Dojo.
Useful Links:
https://www.edshed.com/en-gb/login – Spelling Shed
https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student – Times Table Rockstars
https://myminimaths.co.uk/year-5-mini-maths/
https://www.transum.org/Software/Game/
https://gridclub.com/#
