Belle Vue Primary School

Children Year groups

Welcome to Year 5 at Belle Vue

Academic Year 2026-27

Your year 5 team are Mrs Hopkins, Miss Hackett, Mrs Fisher, Mrs Northall and Miss Massay.

We are really excited to be teaching your children in Year 5 and make lots of wonderful memories this academic year.

When we are planning new exciting activities, Mrs Silwood-Monk and Mrs Ford-Thomson will be teaching. This is currently on Thursday afternoons. We also have PE on Thursday afternoons and Friday mornings too. Please make sure children have PE kits in school, and come to school with earrings taken out on these days.

If you ever have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us via email at info@belle-vue.dudley.sch.uk or leave a message with the office on 01384 389900. We will always aim to speak to you as soon as we possibly can.

Staff

Mrs Hopkins

5Ho Class Teacher

Miss Hackett

5Ha Class Teacher

Mrs Fisher

Mrs Northall

Miss Massay

Teaching Assistant

The 'Belle Vue Way'

Our three school rules are:

Be Ready
Be Respectful
Be Safe

We also have four listening skills that we actively teach across school. These are:

Good listening is…sitting still
Good listening is…staying quiet
Good listening is…looking at the person who is talking
Good listening is…listening to all of the words

Autumn Term Curriculum

Reading

Writing

Maths

In class, we teach reading every day through choral reading of a variety of different texts and extracts, checking for fluency, understanding of vocabulary and helping the children to understand a wide range of texts through key questioning.

The children will have a reading book that they bring home every night, selected from a key reading stage. Please could you ensure that they bring this in every day as they will read in class daily. It is important that your child practises their reading daily for around 10 minutes to build upon their fluency and comprehension skills.

In English lessons, we will be focusing upon sentence structure, handwriting, presentation, editing and improving our writing. During the autumn term, we will be focusing on the text, The Day The Crayons Quit, which is a humorous and engaging story that explores different viewpoints and emotions through the voices of Duncan’s crayons.

In the autumn term, we will be learning about place value.

In addition to daily maths lessons, children will focus on their arithmetic skills with daily practise. We also like to challenge each other on Times Table Rock Stars.

Wider Curriculum

Science: The Human Body

Geography: Spatial Sense

History: Baghdad 900CE

PSHE: Meet Your Brain

Art: Drawing Depth, Emotion and Movement

French: Phonetics and Core Vocabulary

PE: Football, Netball, Basketball and Hockey

RE: Why Do People Stand Up For Their Beliefs?

Computing: Quizzing and Databases

Music: Melody and Harmony in Music

DT: DT Focus Week - Cams Toys

Year 5 Spelling Lists

Spelling will be a key aspect of developing writing skills and will be taught daily.

Each week, we will have 12 new spellings, which we will practise across the week.

On a Friday, we will test these 12 spellings.

Children will be sent home with spelling lists each week.

Letter-Join Handwriting

Handwriting will be taught every day using the 'Letter-Join' handwriting program. The children will be expected to use joined handwriting, leading to a cursive style by Year 6. It is a key component in developing children's writing. Throughout these lessons, the children will be taught about letter families, number formation and High Frequency Words.

It would be extremely beneficial if you could support your child with their handwriting at home too. Simply follow the code below to access a range of activities to practise their 'letter-joins'.

Homework

Homework is set in accordance with our SMART policy (please see the policy on the website). We expect all children to be reading their book, as well as practising their spellings and multiplication skills at home each week. In year 5, a piece of spelling and a piece of maths homework will be provided each week should the children wish to do this at home. There is no requirement for this to be handed in by a certain time.

Below are a few websites and ideas that you can have a go at at home.