Our Curriculum

English

 (including reading lists)

Timetable

Music Timetables

Educational RE Trip - Visit to

West London Islamic Centre

Writing Assessments

As we transition to a new approach to teaching writing, called I am a Clever Writer (IAACW), you may notice that your child's writing outcomes appear lower than expected when they are published. This is due to the adjustments we are making to align with this new method. You can find out more in our news article here.

These are the key indicators for children to be working at age-related expectations at this point in the school year for Year 5:

• Insert whole sentences to describe setting and characters. 

• Understand the importance of cohesion in my writing in fiction writing. I use place, time or manner adverbials to ensure cohesion in and across paragraphs.

• Include direct speech in my stories but changing where the reporting clause is in the sentence (beginning, middle, end). 

• Use speech within a piece of writing to move the story on. 

• Use relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun. 

• Include complex sentences, which start with a subordinating conjunction followed by a comma.

• Link sentences and paragraphs using coordinating and subordinating conjunction. 

• In narratives describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to advance the action. 

• Confidently use the correct tense throughout a piece of writing (even if it means a change of tense). 

 This would also include all previous year group’s indicators from years 1-4.  We have redesigned our curriculum to fit with the new approach.  

Thank you for your understanding and support as we implement this new approach to enhance your child's writing skills.

Year 5 Team

IOW residential trip 16-19th May 2025  updated 27th March

Information session for parents will take place via teams on Wednesday 23rd April at 6pm, this will also be recorded for those who cannot attend. 

Draft activity schedule now available on our IOW page.

During the trip the children will have the opportunity to take part in a range of exciting adventurous activities. Further information can be found at the Centre’s website, http://www.pgl.co.uk/en-gb/adventure-holidays/centres/little-canada. have a look at our Isle of Wight page on our website 

Year 5 Education RE Trip -  TBA

Cooking and Gardening

We are very proud to continue to provide a fantastic opportunity for our pupils to attend cooking sessions. These sessions take place with their class teacher, within the School House kitchen, during the school day.

An annual voluntary contribution of £13.00 has been added to MCAS to cover the cost of ingredients, required to supplement the fresh ingredients provided from the school garden. This fee covers sessions for the whole school year, from September 2024 until July 2025.

This fee is voluntary, however, without the support of our parents, we will be unable to provide an opportunity such as this for our pupils.

To make payment, please log into your MCAS account. The fee, located within the Clubs section, is now available to be added to your basket.

Walking Home

It is for individual families to decide if and when they like their child to walk to/from school alone. If you would like your child to walk home alone after school, please let the office or their class teacher know so this can be added to BROMCOM. We will be unable to allow this until this permission is received. Please find a link to NSPCC guidance on children walking home alone from school below.

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/away-from-home/at-school/  

Parent Consultations 

Poems from a Green and Blue Planet Hardcover – 3 Oct. 2019

by Sabrina Mahfouz 

Poems from a Green and Blue Planet Hardcover – 3 Oct. 2019

by Sabrina Mahfouz 

Reading and/or talking about their reading to an adult for at least 20 minutes, 5 times a week. Complete your child’s reading record each time they read. Remember it doesn’t always have to be their school book. Reading records and reading books should be sent into school daily.

TT Rock Stars 4 times per week

CGP Homework books to complete for Wednesday 26th: page 44 and 45- Percentages

Continue to practice the years 1,2,3 and 4 common exception words.

CGP Homework books to complete for Wednesday 26th: page 74 and 75 - 'shun' sound 

Over the next two following weeks, we will be focusing on words with the 'shus' sound spelt 'tious'. Dictation will be on Friday 4th April. 

infectious/ nutritious/ cautious/ fictitious/ ambitious/ superstitious

Additional Curriculum and DFE Year 5/6 100 words include:

turbine/ gears/ rotate

queue/ recognise/ recommend