Year 5 2023 - 2024

Welcome to Year Five

Year 5 is taught by Mrs Lynda Thomas and is supported by Miss L Hughes 

Weekly Round-up

Year 5 have had a fantastic week as always! In English we have had a focus on letter writing within our current narrative writing unit. The children have written a letter ‘To humans’  from ‘an elephant’ explaining how they are endangered and begging humans to stop destroying their natural habitats. We found some quite shocking (although very sad) statistics to include in our letters. The children may remember the statistic they included in their letter if you ask them.

This week in maths, children have been working on decimals up to 3 decimal places and making the link between decimals and fractions.

Year 5 also watched a travelling theatre company perform The Selfish Giant on Tuesday afternoon which was a real treat for them.

We completed our Geography Unit thinking about our local environment with a lesson on future possible changes to Helsby as this century progresses forwards.

As you will know Miss Emily Burgess has been with us since January on her final school- based teaching placement and I am delighted that she gained her QTS status this week. Emily has been a true asset to us this year and has worked very hard teaching the children. Today, Emily has given every child Michael Morpurgo book with a lovely personal message written inside. The children are sad that she is leaving but Year 5 pupils and all staff at Hillside know she will be an amazing teacher and we wish her good luck for the future (there is a photo of Year 5 with Miss Burgess and the books she bought them in Mr Khan’s newsletter this week).    

Finally, the fashion designing unit of work in art is almost complete and Mrs Williams has asked me to ask if you could you please provide a cardboard template (for a clothes mannequin) for your child of a human body. There are numerous templates of the human form to choose from on the internet, or feel free to hand draw one. Please could you draw the figure onto card, add a stand shape at the bottom and cut the whole thing out. Approx A4 size would be great. The card needs to be sturdy enough to stand up (double thickness cereal box card may be strong enough). It would be appreciated if these could be brought in for Thursday 2^nd May. Many thanks for your help with this.

Please get in touch if you have any questions. See picture ideas below.

Have a lovely weekend all !

Lynda Thomas

26.04.24  

                                            Please email me at year5@hillside.cheshire.sch.uk  if you need to get in touch or if you have any questions. 

Spelling and Punctuation

BBC Bitesize contains lots of valuable learning material linked to a wide range of topics.. For spelling rules click on the link here and for punctuation click here (note semi-colons and colons are in the Y6 English curriculum, however Y5 need to understand the names and how to use all other punctuation forms).

Times Tables

There are some times tables booklets for you to download on this page if needed, however the children are doing amazingly well in their weekly times tables tests and we are compiling our 'Premier League' table of pupils who are brave enough to take on the challenge of being timed to recall their tables in the shortest possible time! 

Wellbeing

Our Hillside Website has a Wellbeing Page that is being regularly updated and managed by Miss Leisa Hughes. You can find links to My Happy Mind, a range of activities and useful links to help support well-being and a positive mental health. Please do look at this page (situated below the Y6 class page on our website).