Our Year 5 Family

5A- Mr Nicholls

5B- Miss Levy

5C- Miss Williams

Mr Luya and Miss Lee will teach the children for PE. Miss Kravchuk will be teaching art and DT. We have Miss Walker, Mrs Asad, and Mrs M working across Year 5.

Key information

Swimming

Year 5 classes will be taking part in swimming lessons on Tuesday afternoons across Autumn and Spring 1 terms. Please see below when your child's class will be swimming in the year. Emails will follow to detail more information about what is expected for the swimming lessons.

5A- Autumn 1

5B- Autumn 2

5C- Spring 1

Bikeability

Children will have the opportunity to take part in Bikeability from Wednesday, 26th November to Friday 28th November. Emails will follow with more information.

Lake District Residential

The residential to the Lake District will take place from Monday 26th January to Friday 30th January. More information will come out later in the year and we are holding a Year 5 Residential Information Evening on Tuesday 9th September.

Walking Home Permission

If you would like your child to start walking home on their own this year, please pick up a 'Walking Home Permission' form from the school office.

Uniform

Please see the link https://www.newtonleysprimary.org/page/?title=Uniform&pid=48 for our uniform policy. Please note that if your child is not in the correct uniform, we will let you know so that you can help them be in the correct uniform the following day. This includes jewellery, if it is not worn for a religious reason, please keep this at home.

P.E. days

Year 5's P.E. day is on a Thursday. Please ensure your child comes to school in their P.E. kit on these days.

Home learning

We know that our children will excel the most through school when they are reading and practising their times tables and spelling at home. Please ensure your child is reading regularly at home, practising their weekly spellings and continuing to practise their times tables. They will be given a list of the spellings that will be tested each Friday. These will be inside your child’s spelling book which they take home. Children should revise key instant recall facts at home. We will assess them on this at the end of each half term.  This will give them the best chance of progression. We know that children love to learn at home and if they create presentations or complete projects of something they are engaged with, we love to see these.

We don't have reading records at our school this year. This is following feedback and pupil voice however, please rest assured that your child is being listened to with their reading at school and your support with this at home gives your child the best chances in developing their reading.

Snacks

Your child can bring in a healthy snack to eat at breaktimes.

Phones

If your child brings their phone to school, we will ask them to turn it off and it will be locked away in the classroom until home time.

Autumn 2025