Broadoak Backpack Character Values
Respect - Perseverance - Ambition - Happiness - Kindness - Love - Honesty - Co-operation - Empathy - Courage - Resilience - Determination - Enthusiasm - Peacefulness - Creativity - Acceptance - Gratitude - Confidence - Humour - Optimism -
Welcome to Year 5
Welcome to our Year Five page!
Here you will find regular updates and key information throughout the year, relating to everything that is happening in Year Five. Below you will find details related to our class curriculum, along with news, dates and important updates. You will also be able to see photographs and videos of the exciting activities that we have been doing in our lessons through our Twitter page - window into the classroom.
Year Five Team
Miss Ward's Class
2023 - 2024
Miss Bower's Class
2023 - 2024
The Year 5 Staff Team
Teaching Team: Miss Ward, Miss Bower and Mrs Ashton
Health and Well-being Team: Coach Kim and Coach Vicki
Key Stage Leader: Mrs Dermody
SENDCO: Mrs. Manson / Deputy Headteacher: Miss Fairhurst / Headteacher: Mrs. Wild
Teaching Team
Health and Wellbeing Team
Key Dates / Reminders / Homework
PE: Every Tuesday - children to wear PE kits on this day.
Homework: This is allocated, every Wednesday and should be completed and submitted by Monday in a homework book.
TT Rock Stars: Children are asked to learn all times tables up to 12 x 12 - logins have been issued.
Spelling Shed: Children are issued weekly spellings every Monday and should be submitted the following Monday. The spelling lists are also available to practise on Spelling Shed. These should be practised each evening.
Reading: We ask that all children have their reading record signed by an adult each time they have read at home. We have adopted a traffic light system to encourage the consistency of reading at home across the school. On Friday, staff will check the reading records and record either a red, amber or green traffic light:
Red : Read 3 times or less
Amber : Read 4 times
Green : Read 5 times or more
The children's names are put into a 'Traffic Light Treat' draw on a Friday, if your child has read 5 times or more that week and their name comes out of the box, they will choose a special prize from the Traffic Light Treat box!
Rewards and Celebrations
Class Dojo: Children can earn 'Dojo Points' for any number of positive reasons, such as: following our Golden Rules, demonstrating our character values, excellent attitude, effort and achievement.
Dojo Dip Winner: Weekly celebration for a child in each class who are awarded the most Dojo Points. The winner selects a book as a reward for their achievement.
Star of the Day: Child who achieves the most Dojos each day.
Star of the Week: Two children from each class are awarded the Star of the Week to reflect the excellent learning they have demonstrated that week These certificates are awarded to the children during Friday Celebration Assembly.
Whole Class Rewards: As a reward for positive behaviour, the whole class receives a treat when they have received 100 merits/points.
Reward and Celebration Day: Every half-term, each class takes part in Reward and Celebration Day - usually on the Friday before each half-term.
Star of PE: Our Health and Well-being coaches award 'Star of PE' to children who show a commitment to their physical and mental well-being.
Broadoak Backpack for Life!
Our broad and balanced curriculum aims to develop in children a curiosity and fascination of the world around us. It is our intention that our children will be inquisitive about the world- locally, nationally and globally; to have a sense of awe and wonder about the physical and natural world: places, people, processes, times, changes and development.
Our curriculum is focused on the development of children’s knowledge and skills across all curriculum subjects. We know learning is defined as changes in long term memory so we ensure children build upon and recall previous learning to enable them to know more and remember more in the long term. We aim for our children to become happy, resilient and determined life-long learners who are great thinkers, problem solvers and who are fully prepared for further learning and life events ahead of them.
We prioritise the personal development of our children through our curriculum. They will learn how to take care of themselves, and be healthy -physically, emotionally and mentally, knowledge which will stay with them throughout their life.
Our Broadoak Backpack character values encourage them to celebrate differences, be respectful, have empathy, to be tolerant and kind. They learn and appreciate Fundamental British Values and the Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural dimensions of the world as part of our curriculum, to ensure they are fully prepared for life in modern Britain.
Our curriculum aspires to develop a ‘Backpack’ for life for each Broadoak child, filled with knowledge, skills, experiences, personal attributes and ultimately, an understanding about the world around them which will enable them to thrive and have the confidence and courage to achieve their best in all they do, whilst at Broadoak and beyond.
Window into the Classroom - Twitter
To enable you to gain an insight into some of the learning and experiences that your child will have whilst in Year 5, we will tweet pictures, videos and work which you can use as a starting point for discussion at home with your child.
We have introduced a program to all year groups at school called myHappymind. myHappymind is all based around helping children to understand how their brain works and to support them in developing positive skills and habits to
be their very best selves!
myHappymind is delivered in schools by class teachers through a series of interactive lessons and then the children apply these learnings throughout the day. To further embed this learning and ensure that you are able to engage in these topics with your child, myHappymind has developed a set of resources for parents. These resources can be accessed online on your computer, or through an app on your phone. The resources allow children to continue to practise some of the habits they have developed at school, such as Happy Breathing, for you to learn more about what they are learning in the program. Also included are activities for you to do together at home, to complement the in-school lessons.
To access these materials, just go to https://myhappymind.org/parent-resources and enter your name, email, and authentication code. Your authentication code has been communicated via email to all of our parents and carers.
Head Bump Protocol
If children have a head injury when at school, they will be assessed by a First Aider. Should the injury be a minor bump, parents/carers will receive an email to inform them that their child has bumped their head in addition to a sticker and a first aid note being sent home. Parents/carers do not need to respond to this email – it is just another way to ensure parents and carers are informed. If a child has a head injury which the first aider believes need to be checked or the child is unwell after a head injury, a telephone call to parents/carers will be made and they will be asked to collect their child and advised to seek medical advice. In the most serious cases, medical assistance would be called to school.
Broadoak Backpack for Life Curriculum
Lledr Hall Residential
Parents/ Carers who couldn't attend the information session, the presentation which was shared during the meeting is below. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the Year 5 team.
For more information, please visit:
Year 5 - Parent Curriculum Overview - Spring
Year 5 - Parent Curriculum Overview - Spring
Please click on the link above to download the document
Our Commitment to Embedding a Life Long Love of Reading to ALL children
What is Reading at Broadoak?
At Broadoak Primary School, we want all children to develop a lifelong love of reading that will become an integral part of their future. As a school, we believe that creating a culture of reading is a vital tool in ensuring our children are given the best life chances. Cultivating readers with a passion for a wide range of materials, will ensure that children’s love of reading will extend far beyond the classroom and allow them to build on their skills independently through a real curiosity and thirst for knowledge.
It is our aim that all pupils-irrespective of their needs, abilities or background- will be able to:
- Read with confidence, fluency and understanding
- Develop the pleasure of reading widely and often and appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage
- Use higher order reading skills including retrieval and inference through the use of text referral, assessment of author’s intentions, justifications of their opinions and judgements and in the pursuit of critical awareness
- Acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language.
We use individual reading books, author focus units, high quality key texts and Broadoak's 50 Brilliant Books to engage all our children in reading.
Reading at Home - Support for Parents
Parents play a vital part in their child's learning and progress. Below are some suggestion question stems that can be used by parents whilst completing reading at home.
Retrieval Questions
Children have to pick out information from a text in order to answer questions about it.
- Who is telling this story?
- When/ where is this story set? Find evidence in the text to support your answer.
Word meaning and Effective language Questions
Children have to explain how phrases/ words have been used to add to the meaning of the text
- Find and copy one word that means the same as…
- What does the word …….. tell you about the character/setting/mood?
Prediction Questions
Based on what children have read, they need to make predictions about what they think may happen next
- Based on what you have read, what does the last paragraph suggest might happen ____? Use evidence from the paragraph to support your prediction.
- What do you think will happen next?
Inference Questions
Children have to look for clues in the text in order to answer questions about how someone might be feeling or why something is happening. Encourage children to support their answers by finding evidence in the text.
- I think… Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer using evidence from the text.
- Describe how …is feeling. Use two pieces of evidence from the text to support your answer.
Summary Questions
Children have to summarise the main points or main events in a paragraph or whole text
- What is the moral message in the story?
- Sum up what has happened so far in less than 20 words.
He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
William Godwin
Spring Author Focus
Cressida Cowell
Cressida Cowell MBE FRSL (born 15 April 1966) is a British children's author, popularly known for the book series, How to Train Your Dragon, which has subsequently become an award-winning franchise as adapted for the screen by DreamWorks Animation.
Spring Key Text
Spring Key Text
Broadoak's 50 Brilliant Books - Year 5
Mathematics
Spring 1:
- Place Value - interpret negative numbers in context,
count forwards and backwards with positive and negative
numbers including through zero. - Roman Numerals - read Roman numerals to 1000
and recognise years written in Roman numerals. - Addition and subtraction - use rounding to check answers to
calculations and determine, in the context of a problem. - Area - calculate and compare the area of
rectangles (including squares) including using standard units,
square centimetres (cm2) and square metres (m2) & estimate the area of irregular shapes. - Reflection and translation - identify, describe and represent the position of a shape following a reflection or translation, using the appropriate language and know that the shape has not changed.
- Multiplication and division - consolidating the use of formal written method for short and long multiplication and also short division (including interpret remainders).
- Multiplication and division - multiply and divide whole numbers and those involving decimals by 10, 100 and 1000.
Spring 2:
- Fractions - recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions
and convert from one form to the other and write mathematical statements. - Measures - estimate volume (e.g. using 1 cm3 blocks to
build cubes, including cuboids) and capacity (e.g. using water). Convert between different units of metric measure (e.g. km/m; cm/m; cm/mm; g/kg; l/ml). - Geometry - identify 3D shapes, including cubes and other cuboids, from 2D representations.
- Geometry - use the properties of rectangles to deduce
related facts & find missing lengths and angles. - Statistics - solve comparison, addition and difference problems using information presented in a line graph.
- Long multiplication - introducing the formal written method when multiplying by a two digit number.
Year 5 - Addition / Subtraction / Multiplication / Division Strategies
Our Full / Wider Curriculum Offer
After School Clubs Timetable
Life Skills Curriculum
To download the document, please click on the link below: