Teachers: Mrs. Read and Miss Fryer (Student Teacher)
1:1 Teaching Assistants: Miss Chadwick and Mrs Thorpe
Welcome to our class page where I hope you will find everything that you need. Below is a copy of this half terms newsletter, a copy will also be shared on Class Dojo. If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact me via Class Dojo, in the play ground or via the office. Many thanks – Mrs. Read
- Long Term Plan (Annual Overview)
Reading
Reading plays an important role in your child’s education. It is recommended you listen to your child reading their school reading book at least 3 times a week, even if they are a competent reader, and provide a signature along with the date, title and pages read. This, along with reading for pleasure can be recorded in their reading record which will be checked by an adult weekly. If your child is not reading regularly at home a quiet time will be provided during a play time. When school reading books have been read, it is your child’s responsibility to change them.
Your child will have their school reading book, a book selected from the classroom library and a ‘free choice’ book from the school library. We will visit the school library on a Friday where books can be changed if needed.
We endeavour to introduce them to a wide variety of texts during their time at St Peter’s however, if you are looking for a book for your child, please check out the link below to some recommended reads for your Year 5 child. These may be an idea for a birthday or Christmas present.
Spelling
At St. Peter’s, we follow the ‘Words their Way’ spelling scheme. Below is the link to this half terms weekly spellings which children will be tested on each Friday. There is time during the week to look at these spellings, but it is strongly recommended they are also practised regularly at home.
I have also included the Year 5/6 Common Exception Words which children need to be spelling correctly in their writing – these form part of their weekly spellings too.
PE
We have 2 PE sessions each week, these are on a Wednesday afternoon (with PE coach) and Thursday morning. Please ensure your child has the correct PE kit in school on these days and ALL jewellery is removed.
Homework
As well as spellings and reading, your child well have weekly homework.
Homework will be set on a Wednesday and is due the following Wednesday where we will mark it as a class. It will consist of 1 piece of literacy and 1 piece of maths each week, occasionally Science, History, Geography or RE work will be set instead. In most cases, homework will be a consolidation of what has been learnt in class therefore should be completed mostly independently.
If homework is not completed a quiet time will be provided for it to be done in school.
