St Lawrence C of E (Aided) Junior School​

Here is all the information we think you will need to help your child to negotiate Year 5. Please let your classteacher know if there's anything else that you think would be useful to have on this page.

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Don't forget to click the link at the bottom of this box for pages 2 & 3 of our Parent information.

At the start of each year, our new Year 5 parents are invited to a coffee morning at St Lawrence to meet the Year 5 team and to find out more about Year 5. Here is the presentation that was given at the coffee morning in September 2019

Key Instant Recall Facts (KIRFs) are the core facts that children need to be able to recall quickly in order to support their work across the numeracy curriculum.

Each year group will have a new focus for each half term. Although each fact will be introduced and practised in some lesson starters, we would ask that you support your child by practising with them at home. The new target will be sent out each half term, with a top tips sheet to help you and your child.

Please speak to your child's class teacher if you would like any further information or support.

Here are some useful ideas about how best to support your child's learning at home:

English:

Helping your child with reading

Practising Spellings at Home

Years 5 & 6 English overview

Years 5 & 6 word list

Maths:

Key Learning in Maths

Objectives for Pupils

Curriculum Evening Maths Presentation

Parents' guide to progression in calculation 

We are constantly striving for improvement and, as a staff, we are always thinking of ideas to get the most out of the children and help them to perform to the best of their ability. We have been looking more recently at all the main, basic things children need to do to improve their work.

Each Year Group has come up with a list of what we are calling ‘Non-Negotiables’.  This list includes: presentation, punctuation, layout, handwriting etc. expectations that the children must ensure happens with all their work all the time. We will have a copy up in every class and this will be referred to constantly throughout the day.

With this initiative we are trying to instil in the children the basic expectations for every piece of work. If this list becomes second nature to the children, it leaves the teacher free to comment on the targets that will help the children to progress better.

This is the National Curriculum overview for Year 5

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Welcome to Year 5! We hope you have all had an enjoyable summer and that your child is enjoying the start of a new and exciting year. Welcome to our new families as well. We are glad you have joined us at St. Lawrence. We see Year 5 as being a year where the children develop in both confidence and independence and we really want to encourage this in them...