Welcome to the Year 5 Notice Board

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

 

The children have had a great first few days back and are settling into their new routines well. We are in the process of updating all the links on the notice board.

Homework will begin from next week w/b 21/09/26

 

Reminders:

All children need to bring in a named glue stick and a water bottle in school

Please ensure your child has a waterproof jacket/ coat in school.

Please keep an eye out for the Imperial War Museum trip letter which will go out this week on MCAS.

 

Dates for the diary:

04.09.26 First day back for children

24.09.26 Home School Partnership Evening

08.10.26 Imperial War Museum Trip

 

Teachers:
Sycamore – Mrs Clifton
Chestnut – Miss Webster

Support Staff:
Mr Nudds, Ms Lofts, Mrs Smith, Ms Celma

 

Weekly Routines

Monday	Bring in Reading Record Chestnut Outdoor PE Sycamore Outdoor PE
Tuesday	CGP  homework books. Music lesson
Wednesday	French – Sycamore
Thursday	French – Chestnut Indoor  PE ( both classes)
Friday

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 ‘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.

Word Aware

Y5 Autumn Learning Tree 2026-7

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 Monday and indoor PE on Thursday.

Maths:	Place Value
English:	newspaper reports

 

Reading	Daily (at least 20 mins) Reading Record books must be brought into school on a Monday to be checked.  We encourage children to write a reflective comment when they have read. Children are encouraged to read aloud often to an adult and discuss what they have read. Children should share their opinions, inferences and/or predictions about what they read. Children are able to change their reading book whenever they need to.
Grammar & Punctuation	Set on Tuesday due the following Tuesday
Spelling	Set on Tuesday and tested through dictation the following ………………... The word-lists for years 3 and 4 and years 5 and 6 are a mixture of words learners frequently use in their writing and those which are often misspelled. Some of the listed words may be thought of as quite challenging, however with enough practice and resilience we know you will get the hang of them! Spellings        (Your child will be told by their teacher which list they need to learn)
Maths	Set on Tuesday and due in the following Tuesday – CGP books
Times Tables	Please find below two links to games online for times tables practice. An alternative way for children to practice their speed and accuracy! There are options to practice a particular number or to have mixed questions, enjoy! Times tables speed test: https://www.timestables.co.uk/speed-test/ Hit the button: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

 

 

This week:

Grammar and punctuation:	English CGP Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling book: Pages: This will begin next week
Maths	Maths CGP book. Pages: This will begin next week
Spellings	This will begin next week

Class reading books: We are enjoying these books in Chestnut and Sycamore right now

         

Chestnut                                            Sycamore

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 you have donated a book to the class please tick on the spreadsheet for your child’s class 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.

Year 5 Recommended Reads