Welcome to Year 5!

We are delighted to work with your children and to support them as they continue to grow both academically and personally. In Year 5, we aim to provide a rich, engaging and enjoyable learning experience that encourages children to become confident, independent and enthusiastic learners.

Working in close partnership with parents and carers is an important part of supporting every child. Together, we aim to ensure that children feel happy, confident and well supported as they progress through Year 5 and continue their learning journey at Little Green.

This section of the website contains useful information about Year 5 and the children's learning. If you have a question relating to your child's learning or a specific classroom matter, please contact the Year 5 teachers via the class@littlegreen email account. For general enquiries and other requests, please contact the school office as usual.

We are always happy to arrange a conversation at a mutually convenient time. In line with our school email guidance, we aim to respond to messages within 3–5 working days.

PE and Games days are as follows:

5H: (Miss Reile) - Wednesday and Thursday

5E  (Mrs Mullins) - Wednesday and Thursday

5R (Miss Hall) - Monday and Thursday

PE : We remind you that children should come to school wearing their PE kit. This is: black shorts,  a green 'Little Green' printed PE t-shirt, a school sweatshirt, sports (not fashion) trainers.  In addition, during cold/wetter weather, please ensure your child also has plain dark jogging bottoms, a spare sweatshirt and a lightweight waterproof jacket to ensure they can take part in lessons safely.  

We must stress however that a pair of old trainers and/or Wellington Boots should be in school every day as we hope to include exciting outdoor curriculum opportunities that require physical activity including the Daily Mile.

Reading books and Library books

Each week, every class has a chance to visit the Library and borrow books. Every child will also have a Year 5 spine book to read at home. These can be changed every day  during registration times.

Whatsapp and Social Media

Increasingly we are finding that behaviour on Whatsapp and other online applications is having an impact on learning and well-being in school. Whatsapp, Tik-Tok and other social media are platforms that we as a school simply cannot monitor and as a result we strongly request that you monitor your children’s behaviour when using the apps. The guidance by Whatsapp is that it should not be used by children under the age of thirteen and this is because many children are not emotionally mature enough to use the platform. Each year, we increasingly are finding that children are sending messages late at night to one another and very early in the morning too – some of these messages have been negative in content too. Children should not be part of large ‘class’ or ‘year group’ Whatsapp or 'Messenger' groups. Please reinforce this at home.

Home Learning: Please refer to our Home Learning information page