Belle Vue Primary School

Children Year groups

Welcome to Year 5 at Belle Vue

Academic Year 2025-26

Your year 5 team are Mrs Hodson, Mrs Parr, Mr Bowater and Mrs Turner.

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 Tomkins will be teaching. This is currently on Wednesday mornings. We also have PE on Friday afternoons too. Please make sure children have PE kits in school, and come to school with earrings taken out on these days.

During summer term, we have forest school on a Monday. Please ensure that children come to school in appropriate clothing (that you don't mind getting dirty!) and footwear.

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

Mr Bowater

5B Class Teacher

Mrs Hodson

5HP Class Teacher

(Monday-Wednesday)

Mrs Parr

5HP Class Teacher

(Thursday and Friday)

Mrs Turner

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

Summer Term Curriculum

Reading

Writing

Maths

Our class novel is 'Who let the Gods Out' by Maz Evans. Who let the Gods Out is a humorous fantasy adventure about 12-year-old Elliot Hooper, who accidentally releases the immortal daemon of death, Thanatos, from Stonehenge. Assisted by Virgo, a young Zodiac goddess, Elliot must gather a group of retired, quirky Olympian gods to stop Thanatos from dominating the world, all while managing his mother's dementia and a struggling farm.

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 summer term, we will be focusing on the text, The Arrival by Shaun Tan, which is a wordless graphic novel telling the story of an immigrant leaving his family to find a better life in a strange, surreal city.

In the summer term, we will be learning about measurement, geometry and statistics.

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. Passwords for this have been sent home so that children can practise at home too.

Wider Curriculum

Science: 'Astronomy' and 'Meteorology'

Geography: 'Local Study'

History: 'The Victorians'

PSHE: 'What Makes a Person's Identity?' and 'What Decisions Can People Make With Money?'

Art: 'Printmaking' and 'Photography'

French: 'Phonetics', 'Core Vocabulary' and 'Cafe'

PE: Football, Netball, Basketball and Hockey

RE: 'Humanism' and 'Words of Wisdom'

Computing: 'Spreadsheets'

Music: 'Composing and Chords

DT: DT Focus Week - 'Sewing'

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 have been sent home with spellings lists that take us up to the Whitsun half term holiday so they can practise at home.

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 English and a piece of maths homework is provided every Friday should the children wish to do this at home. There is no requirement for this to be handed in by a certain time but it can be if needed. Homework sent out on a Friday will be based on what we have covered in class during that week.

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