Year 5 – Buzzard Class
Meet the teachers
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Mr J Clark
Class Teacher -
Mr R Duffy
Teaching Assistant Hello! I'm Mr Duffy, Year 5 TA and I am delighted to be working with your child's class this year.
I have been working in mainstream primary schools for 6 years now (this year I am ever so lucky to be spending my seventh year in such an amazing school!) and in that time I have gained a wide range of experience across all year groups from EYFS all the way through to Year 6.
I am so lucky to be working with the incredible teacher Mr Clark this year and together we will be working closely as a team to support your child during their Year 5 journey. -
Mrs S Dutta
Teacher - Thursday Afternoon
Welcome To Buzzard Class
Welcome To Buzzard Class!
In Buzzard Class, we work collaboratively to REACH our full potential.
Through learning and playing together, we will work to support our children to become:
Resilient
Engaged
Ambitious
Creative
Healthy
Autumn 1
In our Mathematics sessions this term, we will be tackling ‘Place Value within 1,000,000’, ‘Addition & Subtraction’
In English, we will be using the books ‘Queen of the Falls’ by Chris Van Allsburg. This book will be used to stimulate our writing and enable us to compose a series of diaries about significant events in the life of Annie Edson Taylor’s life.
For guided reading sessions, our focus is a book called ‘Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls’ by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo‘.
Curriculum: Our R.E. topic this term is ‘How & Why do Christians read the Bible?’ We will be investigating the different books of the Bible, as well as looking at how Christian belief affects everyday life.
Our Science learning, will be within the area of ‘Materials – Mixtures and Separation.’ Geography takes us to the oceans of the world and in Design Technology you’ll be taking a look at bridge building.
In Geography, we will be looking at North America.
Art you’ll be looking at how to draw, showing movement.
Expectations
Reading: This year we aim to read every day at home, as part of our homework. We are recording all our reading in our reading journals and these will be kept in school.
Times Tables: To help with learning times -tables, ‘TTRockstar’ games should be played at least three times a week.
Spellings: Each week, children should practise spelling 5 words from the year 5/6 common word list.
Homework: Homework will be set each Friday and should be handed in the following Wednesday.
P.E. – P.E. lessons will be every Wednesday (Swimming) and Thursday this half-term.
Personal Belongings
- Reading books should be brought into school every day.
- P.E. kits should be worn on PE days and should consist of a plain white t-shirt, black coloured shorts, or jogging bottoms and black pumps. Trainers can be worn for outdoor activities.
- Bags should be as small as possible, in order to fit easily in the coat-peg spaces provided.
Social Links
There’s so much that we’ll be getting up to this term – too much to record!
Remember to keep track of all our learning by checking in on our school Facebook / Instagram feed each week, as well as our Class Dojo feed.
Get in Touch
Please don’t hesitate to email, if you have any questions at all. You can contact me using –
joe.clark@littlesutton.cheshire.sch.uk
We value your messages and will respond as soon as possible, during working hours. If your enquiry is urgent, we will seek to accommodate an urgent meeting. To help us settle the children calmly in the mornings, please arrange non-urgent meetings by email. Many thanks for your continued support.
