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.

Please complete the Gsuite for education permission form and Acceptable Use form  found on the school website under the ‘Parents/ Carers’ tab if you have not done so yet. 

Dates for the diary

12.03.26 – Printing T-shirts art afternoon (the children need to bring a plain white/light colour t-shirt to print on)

19.03.26 and 25.03.26 Parent Evenings

16.03.26– Neurodiversity Week

KS2 Neurodiversity Celebration Week   March 16th to 20th 2026

During the week beginning 16th March, all pupils from Y1 to Y6 will engage in a variety of activities that will support their awareness and knowledge of neurodiversity terms and concepts at an age-appropriate level. Awareness and knowledge is the first step towards developing a whole Belmont community with positive attitudes towards neurodiversity and neurodivergence. In KS2 (Y3, Y4, Y5 & Y6), the children will have an assembly at the start of the week where they will learn that neurodiversity is a way to describe how all of us are different in the way we think, feel and learn. These differences are not easily visible (they are inside us) and this can make it harder to recognise and understand these differences in others. In class, the children will look at how differences can be supported in schools to make things fair for everyone to learn. This will help the children to understand the delicate balance between needs and wants. They will also share some story books in class and will complete a class quiz together with their teacher. 

23.03.26– STEM Week

VERY IMPORTANT: Next year’s PGL information can be found below- Deposits need to be paid by 13th March 2026

PGL Little Canada Promotion Video

Little Canada (Isle of White) PGL         Monday 17th May 2027 – Friday 21st May 2027

Dear Parents and Carers,
The total cost of the journey is £551 all inclusive. Below is a breakdown of payments, with deadlines for these. Please note that payments have to
be made by these dates as PGL are very strict about their own payment deadlines.
1st Deposit payment £65.00 due by 13th March 2026 (deposit)
2nd payment £243.00 due by 1st November 2026
3rd payment £243.00 due by 13th March 2027
We have added a payment item under store on MCAS – this is just for the deposit. After the
deposits have been received and numbers confirmed, we will then add further payment options
to MCAS. You can either then pay installments to ease the burden or pay in full as you wish.
All children wishing to attend will need to pay the initial deposit and any families receiving pupil
premium, Kristy will be in touch directly to discuss the payment process.
The deposit is non-refundable should you wish to withdraw. If you have any questions please
contact the School Office.
Yours sincerely,
Year 6 Team

Teachers:
Sycamore – Mrs Gill (Mrs Fanshawe on a Friday)
Chestnut – Mr Allsop

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.

Word Aware

Our topic this term is ‘Awesome Earth’. 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.

Word aware grid Awesome Earth

Y5 Spring Learning Tree 2026

Google Classroom

Further information about the learning is available with our termly Knowledge on the Sycamore and Chestnut Google Classrooms in the Classwork tab.

                              Sycamore Google Classroom                                                              Chestnut Google Classroom                                                                              

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

PE Days

Please ensure your child comes into school in their PE kit on days when they have outdoor or indoor PE.  Outdoor PE on Tuesday and indoor PE on Friday.

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