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.

Class Christmas Party – Thursday 18th December

Dear Parents & Carers,

On Thursday 18th December, we are having our Christmas Parties. We have made a list of the things we need on Google Classroom so please sign up if you feel you can help with this. The food needs to come into school on the morning of the party. Please try and send this in with your children or hand it to the teacher at drop off (EY & KS1) rather than bringing it into the school office.

Thank you for your help.

Please check the food labels to ensure they do not contain nuts or sesame seeds.

Dates for the diary

Class Christmas parties – Thursday 18th December

Bring in a small game to play with a friend morning- Friday 19th December- 1:30 Finish

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.

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