Home About Bowerham Curriculum Classes Parents Admissions Letters and Forms School News Contact Us Covid-19 Welcome to Year 5! On this page you will find all the information that you need about what’s going on in Year 5. Welcome to Year 5 Letter 2021 Video Player https://www.bowerham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Year-5-Welcome-Video-Final.mp4 00:00 05:37 The link below will take you to our frequently asked questions for children starting part way through the year in KS2: New starters – KS2 – Frequently asked questions Mr Box Class Teacher, 5SB sbox@bowerham.lancs.sch.uk Mrs Orford Class Teacher, 5AO aorford@bowerham.lancs.sch.uk Mrs Rawsthorne Teaching Assistant Mrs Brayshaw Teaching Assistant Mrs Parkin Teaching Assistant Miss Casson Teaching Assistant Homework All your child’s homework can be found on Showbie in the green homework folder. Task Homework – This is a task that the children will need to complete. This will be linked to prior learning or to support the children in their learning for that week. Often the task homework will be something for you to do (a task) or to talk through rather than written work that needs handing in. However, if is does need handing in, it can be submitted in a variety of ways depending on what suits the tasks. You can choose how you would like to submit it. Children can complete the homework on paper and hand a physical copy in to the teacher (if they are not isolating), alternatively they can take a photograph of their work and upload it to Showbie. The could also complete their homework on Showbie using the annotation tools. They could use different software e.g. MS Word, PowerPoint etc and upload the document from their computer to Showbie. Just talk – This will be sent home on a Friday for the children to talk about. The children will complete their Just Write on related to the Juat talk on the following Friday during our assessment morning. A new piece of writing will be set every third Friday. The task will then be edited the following Friday, with a final ‘best’ version written to go in folders the following Friday. Spellings – Each child will be set new spellings on a Friday. These words will be linked to the phonics sounds that the children will be covering during their phonics lessons the following week. The children will complete the spelling quiz (test) the following Friday during our assessment morning. Words are usually taken from the year 5 and 6 statutory list, which can be found in the spellings section on Showbie MyMaths – Children will be set a new MyMaths challenge each Friday. Reading – Ideally, we would like the children to be reading regularly at home. They have access to the Bug Club reading scheme and will also bring home a reading book which they have chosen. Please record any reading in the communication diary. The Year 5 Curriculum Below you can find a link to key documents which will give you as a parent or carer an overview of what our Year 5 pupils will be learning this year and the skills that they will need to develop. Click here to find out more about each topic and, as ever, if you have any questions about your child’s learning then please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Routines Year 5 classes will start at 8.45am. We would appreciate it if children could be dropped as near to this time as possible in order to maintain social distancing and ensure that all year groups are arriving at different times. Doors open at 8.30. We would ask that you encourage your child to be independent when coming into school. It is very important for your child’s development for them to be able to take responsibility for themselves and their own property. No parents will be allowed on to the yard in the morning for drop off. Year 5 children will enter through the pupils gate and the black door and go straight to their classroom. At the end of the day, Year 5 children can be collected from the yard by the main gate at 3.05pm. We ask parents collecting children from Year 5 if they do come on to the yard to stand by the wall. We work with a “hands up” collection system. Your child will not be sent to an adult collecting until a member of staff has seen who is there to collect. If someone different is due to collect your child please indicate so in the communication diary. We would encourage parents to collect children away from the yard at a prearranged drop off point where convenient to allow for social distancing to be observed on the yard. Again, please indicate your pick up point in the communication diary. Should you wish to meet with a year 5 teacher, this can be arranged by email or by indicating in the communication diary. PE Day Our PE day is on a Thursday. Your child should come to school in the following kit: Black shorts / plain black tracksuit bottoms / black leggings Team colour plain t-shirt Trainers or pumps School jumper No jewellery Swimming is on Wednesday mornings. Classes go every other week. The first swimming lesson at Lancaster University will be 5AO on 15th September, with 5SB going on 22nd September. Contact Details Bowerham Primary and Nursery School Bowerham Road Lancaster, Lancashire UK, LA1 4BS Phone: 01524 63999 officemanager@bowerham.lancs.sch.uk Latest News LRGS Holiday Clubs 25th November 2021 Staffing News 22nd October 2021 A wonderful tribute to a very special lady 21st October 2021 School Day Times 15th September 2021 Remote learning questionnaire results 12th March 2021 Facebook © 2021 Bowerham School. All Rights Reserved. Web Design by Urban Attic. English