Year 5/6 - Miss Owen 2025 - 2026
Miss Owen
Spring term
Hello everyone and welcome back to our last half term in Year 5.
As we continue school life in our brand new building, as well as finding our way around, we continue to focus on becoming independent and organised learners. This includes remembering our homework and organising our own belongings and resources. The motto 'don't get stressed, just try your best', becomes so important as we move through this important next stage of our education.
Our teacher is Mrs Brougham and Mrs Gargan (who covers our PPA) will help us to continue our love of learning- even when things get tough. Our learning assistant, Miss Farrell will continue to be an amazing support to us all.
In spring term, we will cover a lot of learning and experiences. In English, we will complete pieces of writing around the book 'Malala and the Magic Pencil'. In guided reading, we will be reading 'Room 13' and 'If'. In maths we will consolidate our knowledge of fractions. In history,we will continue to look at local history, including Precot, Rainhill and Liverpool. In geography, we will continue to learn about America.
This term, we will be visiting the Shakespeare North Playhouse.
All of this and not to mention, school, eco and sports council events and whole school competitions and experiences.
We have a really busy term ahead!
Year 5 routines:
- PE : please leave kits in school. Spring 2 PE days are Thursday and Friday
- Please put names inside all clothing and shoes
- Children will take 2 reading books home- one is linked to their level of development and the other is a reading for pleasure book. Books can only be changed when they have been read and a parent has signed the planner. Please bring books in every day so that children can read in school and to an adult when appropriate.
- Please sign your child’s planner at the end of every week. This will be checked each Monday morning and signed by the teacher on a designated day.
- Homework will be set as revision tasks (all relevant information is in the purple folder)
- Spellings will go home each Monday and will be assessed each Friday. There is also a copy on the class page.0
- Water bottles must be brought to school each day
- Healthy snack or toast for break time (toast paid for via parent pay)
- School gates open at 8:40 and playground door at 8:45. Registration is at 8:50am. When children arrive, they complete start of day activities (SODA) linked to their learning and to settle them into the day.
- Children do not need to bring their own pencil cases, pens, pencils etc as all resources are provided. They just need to remember their planner and reading book.