Welcome to Red Panda's Class Page

Teachers: Mrs Hammond and Mrs Pearson

Learning Support Assistant: Mrs Hawes & Ms Brookes

Welcome to Year 5B! 

Mrs Hammond (Monday-Wednesday)

Mrs Pearson (Thursday-Friday)

Mrs Hawes (Monday-Wednesday)

Ms Brookes (Thursday)

Curriculum Letters

Meet and Greet

Please find below the slides for our Meet and Greet presentation, introducing the staff and curriculum for the year.

Long Term Plan 2026-2027

P.E.

This term (Autumn), our P.E. days are Tuesday (indoor PE) and Friday (outdoor PE). Please ensure that your child comes to school in a P.E. kit that is suitable for colder weather. Please also make sure that long hair is tied back on these days and any jewellery is removed. 

PSHE

In September 2020 it was made compulsory for all primary age children to be taught Relationships and Health Education. These subjects are designed to equip your child with knowledge to make informed decisions about their well-being, health and relationships as well as preparing them for a successful adult life. 

Each year the children will cover 3 common themes:

• Relationships
• Living in the wider world
• Health and well-being

We will be using the SCARF curriculum to explore PSHE this year. Take a look at the document below at what we will be learning about in PSHE in Year 5.

For further information please look at the PSHE curriculum page on our website.

Useful weblink for SCARF parent tab

https://www.coramlifeeducation.org.uk/family-scarf 

Times Tables

Reminder - your child can use their Times Table Rockstar logins to practise key times table skills at home.

https://ttrockstars.com

Another great website is Oxford Owl. It gives ideas for variety of maths activities you could try at home with your child.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/maths/primary-maths-age-9-10-year-5/ 

Topmarks - Maths games:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=16&AgeGroup=3 

Spellings

Children will be introduced and taught a new spelling rule each week which will then be the focus in class. These spellings will be uploaded on their Spelling Shed accounts so please encourage your child to login and practise their weekly spelling by playing the online games. We do not test the class weekly on their spellings, instead we will be looking for them in their writing to see whether they can use and spell these correctly in context. A new spelling word list will be stuck in to their red spelling books each Monday, which can be taken home to use to practise with as well.

Spelling strategies at home:

Statutory words the children should know most of these by the end of Year 5:

Reading

Reading regularly is paramount as reading is a transferable skill across all areas of the curriculum. It is really important that your child is reading for at least 70 minutes each week so that they are improving their fluency and comprehension skills and consolidating what has been taught in class. 

Each time your child reads at home or is read to – whether it is their school reading book, a comic, an audio book, a favourite bed time story or a chapter book – simply sign or initial their reading log and add the number of minutes they have read.

We would like children to aim for at least 10 minutes of reading a day or 70 minutes a week.  Each square is split into 70 minutes.  If they don’t complete 70 minutes a week one week, then the minutes they have already accumulated will roll over to the following week.

• Staff will check reading logs once a week.
• They will make a note of how many minutes your child has read.
• For every 70 minutes they will collect a stamp / sticker and the staff member checking will initial it.
• Any additional minutes will ‘roll over’ to the next week.
• If a child finishes a golden ticket board, they can have a new one.

We also use 'VIPERS' during our reading lessons. 'VIPERS' is an acronym to aid the recall of the 6 reading domains as part of the UK’s reading curriculum.  They are the key areas that we feel children need to know and understand in order to improve their comprehension of texts.

VIPERS stands for:

• Vocabulary
• Inference
• Prediction
• Explanation
• Retrieval
• Summarise

This helpful document gives you example questions that link to the Vipers that you can ask your child when you read with them to help their comprehension.

We firmly believe it is important for every child to enjoy reading! Here is a list of books that your Year 5 child may enjoy reading themselves, or having read to them. Don't forget that you can borrow books from your local library, so having a range of books to read at home doesn't need to be expensive!

Year 5 Curriculum Targets - English, Maths and Reading: