Welcome to Year 5S

A very warm welcome to all of our new students starting Year 5 here at St. Patrick's. I hope you have all had a wonderful summer and feel rested and fresh, ready to start our Autumn term.

Year 5 is a very important year for all of our students, and as a staff, we will work incredibly hard to make it their best year yet. Parents and students often have lots of questions at the start of a new year, so please feel free to contact school if you ever have any worries or would like a quick chat about your child. I know this year will be brilliant, and I'm really looking forward to working collaboratively with you and all our students, to ensure this year is successful and fun for all.

Miss McAteer

General Information

This half term we will be starting with the Come and See theme of 'Family', celebrating not only our own unique families, but the family we have here at school and in our wider communities. Our Science topics will start with Properties of Materials and Anglo-Saxons will form our History topic. We will be going on our school trip in October, so please look out for a letter with regards to this. 

As a school we like to promote healthy eating, we would like to kindly remind parents that in Y5 children are welcome to bring in a healthy snack for break times. Your cooperation with this is much appreciated. 

During the school year, lots of items of clothing become lost - please label uniforms/ coats etc as this makes it much easier for us to track down any missing items and get them back to you asap. 

Communication

Please let school know if any of your contact details have changed (phone number, email, addresses) in the event we need to call home or contact you. If you need to contact school our number is 01704 225 906. The class email is 5S@stpatricks.sefton.school  (please note replies will be responded to within 48hours)

Homework

We will post spellings/ English and Maths homework every Monday on Purple Mash, please encourage your children to practise their spellings several times before completing the online task, to ensure they have a good chance of gaining a good score.  Children will be expected to complete their homework every week, as well as reading each night (approximately 20-30mins). Spellings and timestables will be tested each week.

Completing homework on time, in an organised and structured way are excellent habits to encourage, which will prepare children for the future and form a key part in consolidating their learning. Revising times tables will also help your child with key elements of Maths.

If your child is finding homework a challenge please don’t hesitate to let me know.

The Y5 Spelling Overview for the year can be found at the bottom of the page - feel free to print it off and review it as needed.

Reading

At school we aim to foster a love for reading - to do this, we encourage the children to share books they have read, have a comfortable and cosy reading area and try to expand their horizons in terms of the types of books they read, by reading stories for enjoyment and pleasure. Reading aloud also helps children develop this important gateway skill, which opens up all kinds of knowledge and entertainment for them now, and in the future.

P.E.

P.E. sessions will take place every Monday. The children will wear their PE kits to school on that day, and this half term Y5 will be swimming each Thursday – they must have the appropriate equipment (hat, goggles) etc and please note that no jewellery will be allowed when swimming. If your child wears earrings, they must be able to take them out and put them back in themselves. Thank you for your help with this.

Medical

A quick reminder -if your child has a medical condition that staff need to know about, please inform school as soon as possible. If your child requires an inhaler, or any other medicine, please make sure it has been returned to school, and is not out of date and that the appropriate forms have been signed.

Mission Statement Day!

Faithfully following in the footsteps of Jesus,

We serve, love and learn together,

inspiring each other to excellence.

Today in school we celebrated how we follow our school Mission Statement and try to think about the example set for us by Jesus, as we live and learn in our school community. We explored how to 'serve, love and learn together' and realised that we could inspire others through the examples we set. We enjoyed participating in a range of different activities and ended the day by sharing our ideas in the sunshine, with Year 1.