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

So, this will be my final weekly round up for this academic year.

This week the children have worked really hard on their work for the 60 year celebrations of Hillside Primary school exhibition for September. They have been writing their informative piece of work on their chosen sport and have looked at how the sport has changed from 1964 to the present day.

The children have also been working hard on their multi-media art pictures of Hillside school.

You will be able to see both pieces of work at the exhibition we are holding on 6^th September, the Friday of the first week back in September.

It has been a fun week with all classes supporting the Y6 pound grow business project and we have also had a special assembly today with Mr Richardson visiting school to be interviewed for our 60 year celebrations. Ex-pupil Sophie Ecclestone, our England women’s cricket bowler has also visited. She gave an inspirational talk about following your dreams in an assembly.

We have now watched all of the Euro presentations and I have given small prizes to the pupil who picked out Spain, runners-up England and also ‘booby prizes’ for fun to the two pupils who selected Scotland (least number of points and worst goal difference) in the Euros.  

I would like to thank you all for the support and for the trust you have placed in me over the past academic year in teaching your children. I have never ceased to be inspired, motivated and energised by them. I have thoroughly enjoyed every day coming to school over the past year. Year 5 have made so much progress and they are now well-placed to have a fantastic Year 6 with Mr Newman next year, a year that will be their final one at primary school.   

Finally, can I ask that the children all bring a plastic carrier bag to school on Monday for their school books which are to be taken home next week. Also, the children will not be needing their PE kits next week.

We finish school at 2pm on Wednesday afternoon and we will be having our usual end of year assembly at 1pm in the school hall on Wednesday. I hope some of you will be able to be there.

I hope you all have a fantastic, happy and safe summer with your families and your truly wonderful children!

Lynda T

19.07.24

                                            Please email me at [email protected]  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).