Year 5 -Redwood 2026 - 2027

10/09/2026

Homework - Children have been given a printed sheet for this weeks English Homework

This weeks spellings 

Welcome to Redwood Class!

A very warm welcome to our class page! I am really looking forward to getting to know all of the children and their families as we begin our Year 5 journey together. We have an exciting year ahead, full of new learning, challenges, creativity and plenty of fun along the way. I feel very lucky to be part of the children’s learning journey and can’t wait to see them grow in confidence, develop new skills and discover just how much they are capable of. I’m looking forward to a fantastic year together!

Below you will find information including our timetable, weekly homework and spellings along with lots of helpful links to support your childs learning in year 5. 

The Year 5 teacher this year is Mrs Prestidge and our teaching assistant is Miss Cole

Please see the Autumn term newsletter attached for an overview of the children's learning this half term.

Please find below some links that you can use to support with spelling at home.

Class information

PE days will be Tuesdays and Wednesday. Please come to school in PE kit.

Please complete your English and maths homework at home and find time to practise your weekly spellings.

Ensure you have a water bottle and a coat in school every day.

Example of a day in Redwood

Redwood Class!

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Homework

Spellings: your child will receive weekly spellings on a Thursday and be tested on these words the following Tuesday. 

Home learning:   A piece of English home learning or a piece of Maths home learning will be uploaded each week on a Thursday.

Home learning will be uploaded each week in the 'files' section at the bottom of this page. There will be three colours to choose from. Your child will be given a colour every Thursday. The colour will be found in the margin of their home learning book. Select and complete the colour your child has been set.

The three colours are: Blue, Red and Yellow

Reading

Children should be encouraged to have an enjoyment of reading.  They can use their imagination and lose themselves in a book. Therefore, there should be time at home each day for children to be read to and to read independently. They should be encouraged to read a variety of genres including fiction, non-fiction and poetry and asked questions about what they are reading. This will develop their prediction, inference, summarising skills as well as improving their knowledge of vocabulary. 

There are many ways you can support your child at home with their learning. Please encourage your child to complete the homework, it is always carefully selected to support their classroom learning and will give you an a further insight into what our classroom tasks look like. Learning spellings with children so they feel confident when tested would also benefit them hugely.

Here are a selection of websites which can help you and your children.

Guardians: Defenders of Mathematica

A great mixed maths skills game from the BBC.

Maths Frame

(Some games are subscription only, but there are plenty of free games and activities to help you practise maths skills)

Topmarks

A great resource for lots of learning games across subject areas.

Corbett Maths Primary

This is a great website as it has lots of short videos which explain key maths concepts and have lots of practice questions to try.

Spelling Frame

Again, some subscription access only games, but there are some free games/word lists which allow you to practise your spellings in lots of different ways.

Funenglishgames.com

This has some activities and games to help with English and grammar.