Belle Vue Primary School

Children Year groups

Welcome to Year 5 at Belle Vue

Academic Year 2025-26

We are Mrs Cooke, Mrs Hodson, 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 Huggins will be teaching PE. This is currently on Wednesday mornings. We will 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.

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

5HC Class Teacher

(Monday-Tuesday)

Mrs Cooke

5HC Class Teacher

(Wednesday-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

Autumn Term - Key Dates

This is an overview of events throughout the year. All of these dates are provisional and may be subject to change.

Further details regarding the events will be sent out nearer the time.

Autumn Term Curriculum

Reading

Writing

Maths

Our first Year 5 class novel is 'Tom's Midnight Garden' by Phillipa Pearce. Tom Long feels miserable when his brother contracts measles. His parents send him to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen. He dreads the thought of a summer spent in their cramped apartment. The flat lacks a garden and charm, which leaves Tom feeling isolated. Boredom settles in as he misses his brother and their home. Despite his gloomy outlook, one night changes everything. Tom hears the grandfather clock chime an unusual 13 times. Curious and unnerved, he sneaks out of bed. When he opens the backdoor, a vibrant garden unfolds before his eyes. This stunning revelation marks the start of a thrilling adventure.

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.

In the autumn term, we will be learning about number and consolidating our place value knowledge.

Learning about number and place value is essential because it forms the foundation for more complex mathematical concepts. It allows the children to:

Read, write, and compare numbers accurately, which is crucial for performing basic arithmetic operations.
Order and compare numbers effectively, which is necessary for solving problems and making decisions.
Round numbers to the nearest specified unit, which is a fundamental skill for estimating and simplifying calculations.
Interpret negative numbers in various contexts, such as temperature or money, which is important for real-world applications

In addition to daily maths lessons, children will focus on their arithmetic skills.

Wider Curriculum

Science: 'The Human Body' and 'Materials'

Geography: 'Spatial Sense'

History: 'Baghdad 900CE'

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

Art: 'Style in Art' and 'Islamic Art and Architecture'

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

PE: Football, Netball, Basketball and Hockey

RE: 'Multifaith: Symbols and Religious Expression' and 'Christianity Through History'

Computing: 'Coding'

Music: 'Melody and Music in Harmony'

DT: DT Focus Week - 'Build - Cam Toys'

Year 5 Spelling Lists

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

Twelve spellings, linked to phonics sounds, will be learnt each week and will be found below (click the link).

Spelling Tests will take place on Friday. Please focus on one week at a time.

Year 5 spellings

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'.