Year 5

St. Gerard’s Catholic Primary School

Welcome to Wonderful Year 5!

The class of 2026-27

Our class page is here to support both children and parents, and give you lots of useful information about what is going on in our wonderful class! You will also find the latest class newsletter which gives you an overview of the current term. A photo gallery will be updated regularly at the bottom of the page to showcase all of the amazing things that we get up to!

Teaching Staff

Our Year 5 class teachers are Miss Doyle and Miss Bain.

Homework- KS2 Expectations and Help

Compulsory homework includes reading at least four times a week learning their times tables to prepare them for any assessments.. Times Tables Rockstars, My Maths and Hit the button will continue to be used in class, and can be accessed at home.

Extra Maths and Literacy homework tasks will be set weekly in order to help consolidate the children’s learning.

This homework will be set weekly on Friday, to be completed for the following Friday. Please make sure it is completed, and to a good standard.

The children will have a weekly spelling test on a Friday. Weekly spellings will be sent home on a Friday, to learn for the following Friday.

Grammar Skills: Each week a grammar skills sheet will be sent home to support consolidation of key grammar skills from previous years and to develop new skills.

Maths: Each week a maths sheet will be sent home with questions to consolidate that week’s learning. Ensuring that these are completed every week will support and develop further maths fluency, problem solving and reasoning tasks.

Timetables: Children are expected to practise their times tables every day. The children have a TTRS session every Friday in school. Each child has been provided with a unique login to Times Tables Rockstars

Reading

As always, we will be relying on your support to ensure that the children are reading to an adult at home at least four times a week. Including fiction and non-fiction literature would help to broaden your child’s awareness of what is out there to read. This could include newspapers, magazines, leaflets, posters, comics, story books, information books, the list is endless. Asking your child questions about what they have read, will also help with their understanding of what they have read. Each child has been given a plastic zip wallet with a brand new reading record, a stage book, a reading for pleasure book and a bookmark. Please can you acknowledge daily that you have heard your child read, whether this is with a short comment or just a signature. We have ‘reading at home chart’ in the classroom, where children can work their way up and receive rewards in the process. Your child must bring their reading book and reading record into school every day.

Homework is sometimes set for curriculum topic areas. It is expected that pupils will complete a selection of these, as the topic progresses.

PE Days

Your child in Year 5 will be doing PE on a Tuesday and Thursday. As before, the children will be expected to come to school in PE kit on their PE days. Correct PE kit MUST be worn, this includes sensible footwear. (See the PE curriculum page for PE kit expectations)

FOOTBALL KITS / COLOURED T SHIRTS MUST NOT BE WORN FOR PE.

Y5 Recommended Reads

Class Newsletter

Each term, you will receive a paper copy of the class newsletter detailing the wonderful teaching and learning happening in our class. Please spend spend time reading this.

Do not hesitate to contact Miss Doyle if you require any additional support or information.