Welcome to Class 5JS!

2025/26

We are going to have such an exciting year together!

Mr Jessop and Mrs Szabó will be your Class teachers.

 Mr Jessop is in class on Mondays and Fridays and Mrs Szabó is in on Tuesdays, Wednesdays              and Thursdays.

 Mrs Jones teaches on Thursday afternoons.

 Mr Murphy will be teaching outdoor PE on Friday afternoons.

 Mr Nuttall, Miss Bradley and Mrs Perkins also work in year 5.

Class Information:

 Indoor PE is on Tuesday morning (pumps, blue shorts, white t-shirt)

 Outdoor PE is on Friday afternoons (trainers, blue joggers, blue hoodie) 

 Staged reading books can be changed during the week, as long as you have read the book thoroughly at home.  Your reading diary must be signed by a grown-up to show that you have completed your reading at home.  Reading diaries will be checked every Tuesday.

 Everyone will choose a school library book to keep in their tray for reading time but you can also bring in a book from home to read in school too! 

Spring Term

This term, we will be...

• Studying The Tudors in History
• Learning all about why oceans matter in Geography
• We will continue to use a range of high-quality texts and videos such as Varmints, The Rabbits, Macavity and King of The Sky to produce writing for a range of audiences to entertain, inform, persuade and discuss.
• Continue our learning about forces and starting our topic Living things and their Habitats in Science 
• In art this term we will be investigating architecture and we will be designing and making our very own tote bag using recycled fabric. 
• This term we will be learning about South and West African music.
• In computing we will be learning the process of designing and creating interactive quizzes and we will be looking at databases beyond branching databases. 
• Developing skills in gymnastics, yoga, rugby and fitness in PE.
• In Spanish we will continue our unit on pets and we will be learning how to name clothes and create links to different weather types.

Homework

- Children are encouraged to read daily - they have a stage reading book which ensures that they are reading a range of different genres but we also encourage children to develop their own reading interests. 

Reading diaries are collected in every Tuesday and Dojos awarded for home reading.  We encourage you to talk with your child about what they are reading; discussing opinions and vocabulary choices will help them develop a deeper understanding of what is being read. 

- Maths homework is set on a Wednesday and is due in the following Wednesday.  This will be a worksheet inside their red homework books.  A written piece is set alternating weeks.  The weeks in between we encourage the children to work on their times table recall, making connections to division facts.  Please see below for suggestions as to how you can support and help your child's maths at home.

- Spellings are set on a Friday and need to be practised for the following Friday.  They have a sheet inside their spelling homework books where they can practise their spellings.  We encourage children to work on their spellings in different ways such as writing the word in a sentence, create a word search, write the words in rainbow writing etc... 

- We encourage children to share with us their achievements outside of school,  we love to see any certificates, awards or hear about their extra activities. 

Autumn Term   

This term, we will be...

• Studying The Vikings in History
• Learning all about The Alps in Geography
• We will be reading An Emotional Menagerie and A Christmas Carol and watching Snack Attack to provide inspiration for a range of different writing activities
• Learning about Materials and changing states and forces in Science 
• Completing Self-Portraits in art week and adapting recipes to be more nutritional in DT week
• Looking at the history of Blues music and creating our own Blues compositions using the Blues scale in music
• Furthering our understanding of E-safety and coding in computing
• Developing skills in dance, fitness, dodgeball and netball in PE
• Introducing and describing ourselves and learning the names of domestic animals in Spanish

Homework

- Children are encouraged to read daily - they have a stage reading book which ensures that they are reading a range of different genres but we also encourage children to develop their own reading interests.  Reading diaries are collected in every Tuesday and Dojos awarded for home reading.  We encourage you to talk with your child about what they are reading; discussing opinions and vocabulary choices will help them develop a deeper understanding of what is being read. 

- Maths homework is set on a Wednesday and is due in the following Wednesday.  This will be a worksheet inside their red homework books.

- Spellings are set on a Friday and need to be practised for the following Friday.  They have a sheet inside their spelling homework books where they can practise their spellings.  We encourage children to work on their spellings in different ways such as writing the word in a sentence, create a word search, write the words in rainbow writing etc... 

- We encourage children to share with us their achievements outside of school,  we love to see any certificates, awards or hear about their extra activities.