Year 5/6 - Miss Owen 2025 - 2026

Hello and welcome back to school! It's lovely to see familiar faces and some new ones. I hope you have all had a lovely summer holidays. 

As we now start upper key stage 2, we will continue to focus on becoming independent and organised learners. This includes remembering our reading book and planner daily and organising our own belongings throughout the day. The motto 'don't get stressed, just try your best', becomes so important as we move through this important next stage of our education.

Working with me is Mrs Hampson and Mrs Gargan (who covers my PPA and subject time each Thursday morning) and they will help us to continue our love of learning- even when things get tough. 

In Autumn term we will cover a lot of learning and experiences. In English, we will start with a lovely book called Queen of the Falls. Within this, we will look at diary entries and lots of discussion tasks about how she felt doing what she did.  In guided reading, we begin with one of my favourite books 'Kensuke's Kingdom' - a wonderful adventure story which will keep us hooked till the end.Following this we look into the world of Robin Hood with Outlaw.   In maths we will consolidate our  prior knowldge of place value and moving this forward with numbers up to a million. After this we will look at addition and subtraction  making sure we are secure with all our methods.  In history,we will look at the stone age as a period of history where we will look to see where it all started. In geography we begin with map work, countires of the UK and climate zones.  

A busy but enjoyable term ahead! 

Don't forget our new doxy dosh shop where good behaviour means prizes! Will you spend or save????  

Year 5 routines:

• PE : please leave kits in school. Pe days are Monday and Thursday this half term
• 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 and uploaded to the website. These will consist of research questions based on the children's current learning in school
• Spellings will go home each Monday and will be assessed each Friday. There is also a copy on the class page.
• 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.

I am looking forward to once again teaching you all as I know we will learn lots and have some laughs along the way. 

MIss Owen