Budbrooke Primary SchoolYear 5 -Redwood 2024 - 2025
Miss Prestidge
Welcome to Redwood Class Page!
The Year 5 teacher this year is Mrs Prestidge.
Lots of parents have asked me how they can support with spelling at home, please see some suggestions below of games and activities to support.
Spellings - 14/05/2025
yesterday
tomorrow
later
immediately
earlier
eventually
recently
previously
finally
lately
Topic this term: Ground-breaking
This project introduces children to the major developments and changes across six key periods of ancient Greek history. It places special emphasis on the Classical Age and the city-state of Athens, exploring its political, cultural, and social contributions. The project also highlights the enduring legacy of ancient Greece and its influence on the modern world.
Class Spot Light - Spring 2025
Redwood have had a spectacular, spidery start to the spring term. We have started our new writing unit which so far we know features a spider and a farm. We have been working on predicting the links between some picture clues from the book (to be revealed next week!) along with researching to find out how to care for spiders to put together a leaflet using this knowledge.
In art we have between our investigation into the continuous line technique pioneered by Pablo Picasso. The children enjoyed recreating some of his pieces and a few of their own!
In maths we have started work on our second unit of multiplication and division exploring multiplication and division using manipulatives.
Our Grow, Sow and Farm topic has begun with the children considering the land used for allotments and learning some of the vocabulary used when considering agriculture. In science we have been learning about the life cycles to identify similarities and differences between species.
Some of our learning in year 5...
Preparing to present allotment land proposals in geography.
Role playing the first scenes of Charlotte's Web.
Having a class debate!
Performing poetry
Preparing scenes to understand characters.
Class information
PE days will be Tuesdays and Wednesday. Please come to school in PE kit.
Please complete your English and maths work 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!
Homework
Spellings: your child will receive weekly spellings on a Thursday and be tested on these words the following Tuesday. Please find below a half termly overview of the spellings we will be sending home.
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.
(Some games are subscription only, but there are plenty of free games and activities to help you practise maths skills)
A great resource for lots of learning games across subject areas.
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.
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.
This has some activities and games to help with English and grammar.