Welcome to the Year 5 Notice Board

This noticeboard will be updated on Wednesday afternoons to share homework and keep you updated with life in Year 5.

Please ensure your child is following the Belmont School Uniform Policy   School_Uniform_policy  

Please note smart watches are not allowed in school.

Dates for the diary

Thursday 16th October (Tomorrow) – DT Day at Chiswick School (We will need DBS parent volunteers to accompany us).

Please give permission and pay £1 for the ingredients each child will need on MCAS.

Teachers:
Sycamore – Mrs Gill (Mrs Fanshawe on a Friday)
Chestnut – Miss Lee

Support Staff:
Ms Lofts, Mrs Bridges, Ms Pasebani

Weekly Routines

Please remember the children should have a healthy snack for morning playtime. 

Reading record – please can you remind your child to write in their reading records each week and bring it to school every Monday. They should be writing at least 3 entries per week.

Glue sticks – Please send one in for your child to use and label with their name.

Water bottles – Please ensure that your child brings a named water bottle to school with them each day so that they can hydrate regularly throughout the day.

PE Days – Please ensure your child comes into school in their PE kit on days when they have outdoor or indoor PE.

Word Aware

Our topic this term is ‘World at War’. Please see the attached vocabulary list for this new topic. This list is part of an initiative called Word Aware that we are using in school. We thought it would be helpful to share this list so that you can use some of these words at home when discussing the topic. If your child speaks a different language at home it would be helpful to discuss and translate these words using your home language.

World at War Word Aware Grid

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Handwriting

As you may be aware Belmont uses a cursive handwriting scheme for those children who can consistently form all non-cursive letters correctly.
Here is a link to the handwriting guidelines to enable you to support your children practicing letter formation at home.

Belmont Handwriting Guidelines

Class reading books we are enjoying in Chestnut and Sycamore right now

Reading for Pleasure books for class

In addition to our reading expectations for Year 5, we also encourage reading for pleasure. As part of our focus on reading in school, we would like to develop the lending library of books within each class. This will enable the children to foster a passion and love of reading at Belmont and ensure that they have access to high quality texts.

Please find links to the book list that has a variety of books that we would love to have in class.  Once a book has been donated to the class we will add a tick to show we now have it.  Please check the list to ensure that the book that you would like to donate is one that we don’t already have. These books will be stamped to show who has generously donated them and shared with all the class.

The books come from the Recommended Books for Year 5 List which can be found below.

Recommended Reading – Year 5