Welcome to Class 5!

Croeso i Dosbarth 5!


Teacher: Mrs Lawley	Learning Support Assistant: Miss Morris

Communication

X (Twitter) - @stmellonsprm

Our School ID: 13339

Google Classroom Code: x4wdqch5

Overview of the day

8.45 Classroom door will be opened and pupils to complete their Morning Activity

8.55 Register

9.05 – 9.25 Worship

9.30 - 9.45 RWI spelling session

9.45-10.45 Literacy, Languages & Communication

10.45 – 11.00 Snack / Break Time

11.00 – 12.00 Mathematics & Numeracy

12.00 – 1.00 Lunch

1.00 – 1.25 Guided Group Reading

1.30 – 2.30 Topic work (focusing on Humanities, Science & Technology, Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, including PE)

10 minutes daily mile

2.30 - 3.00 RE/ ICT/ Welsh or FIT

3.00 Daily Welsh Activities

3.20 Home Time

Important Dates for the Half Term

Christian Value – Peace

1st June – Return to School Christian Value Day

5th June – Sports Day 9.15-11.15am Reception - Year 3, 1.15 - 3.15- Years 4 to 6

12th June – Reserve Sports Day

15th - 19th June - World Refugee Week

15th June - Class Photographs

18th - 26th June - Scholastic Book Fair

19th June - Rags to Riches collection

22nd June - World Music Day

3rd July – Reports out to parents and Summer Fayre 1-3.30 pm

10th July - Last Day in Year 5 Class

13th - 17th July - Transition week - Children moving into new classes with new teachers

13th July Whole School Eucharist 9.15am

15th July – Year 6 Leavers Assembly 9.30am & coffee morning, parents welcome

17th July - Last day of term

20th July – INSET day school closed for pupils

Classroom Routine

Please bring a bottle of water to school daily, clearly labelled with your name.

Healthy snacks can be purchased from the snack trolley (ordered via ParentPay) or brought in from home.

Our PE day is Monday - please wear your PE kit to school.

PE kit is a white polo shirt (or your house colour) and grey or black shorts/joggers & trainers. Plain kits please, no patterns or large logos.

Children should wear school uniform each day (apart from PE day) and please ensure that all clothing is clearly labelled with the child's name.

Current Learning

This term our inquiry title is 'Fit for Life'.

As part of our immersion day, pupils thought about our new inquiry and these are the questions they want to investigate…

How does the whole body function? (BC)

I would like to learn more about our organs. (IP)

If a raised heart beat is bad, why does it happen when we exercise? (IP)

How many veins connect to our heart? (OT)

How does blood and oxygen get around our body? (MB)

How does the heart work? (AE)

What happens when we pull a muscle? (ME)

How much blood does the heart pump? (SL)

How does the brain work? (CF)

Is it ok to have a sweet treat sometime? (VA)

How does our body process food? (BP)

I would like to learn how to get physically fitter (BP)

How many hours do you need to work out for a day to be fit? (JR)

I want to learn how to get fit. (CT)

How does exercising help our health? (MR)

I want to find out more about feelings and how to control them (IP)

Why do we laugh when we are happy? (ME)

Why do we tear-up when we are sad? (ME)

How can we have a fit life? (JF)

How does screen time affect your health? (MR)

As a result of these questions, pupils will learn about how the brain and major organs function and understand how daily habits such as sleep, screen time, and gaming can affect their physical and mental health. They will explore healthy routines, emotional regulation strategies, and the impact of harmful or unbalanced behaviours. They will develop greater self-awareness and learn how informed choices can support their well‑being, resilience, and overall lifestyle. They will also learn how to be responsible in their decision‑making and gain a deeper understanding of how to look after both body and mind.

LLC - As Authors we will be focusing on writing persuasive letters, descriptive writing and writing an extended narrative.

Maths and Numeracy - As Mathematicians will be focusing on fractions, decimals and percentages and statistics.

RVE - As Philosophers we will be considering the question: How does faith influence how people live their lives?

Humanities - As Active, Informed Citizens we will explore our rights and responsibilities to have access to healthy lifestyles and safe environments.

STEM - As Scientists we will investigate how brain and other major organs work and what affect our lifestyle has on them.

HWB - As Happy, Healthy Citizen we will be thinking about the impact of harmful or unbalanced behaviours and how to make the best choices for ourselves. Through our PE sessions we will be focusing on our ability to use combinations of skills in specific contexts, working on our jumping, landing and balancing skills through different athletic based activities and games.

Expressive Arts - As thespians we will again be working with Kenetic on drama pieces about our emotions and understanding feelings.

Planning

class 5 inquiry planning healthy habits healthy growth fit for life docx.pdf

Homework

class 5 homework grid summer 2026.pdf

Weekly homework – Numeracy / Literacy alternated each week. Usually based on something we have learned that week. Set on Friday, due in on Wednesday. Please submit via Google Classroom or send to our class email.

The Four Purposes

The curriculum for Wales is based on four core purposes.

The four purposes are that all children and young people will be:

Ambitious, capable learners who are ready to learn throughout their lives.

Enterprising, creative contributors who are ready to play a full part in life and work.

Ethical, informed citizens who are ready to be citizens of Wales and the world.

Healthy, confident individuals who are ready to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of society.

Our Christian Value

We follow the ‘Values for life’ scheme this term and our value is ‘Peace'.

"The Lord gives his people strength. The Lord blesses them with peace." (Psalm 29:11)

homeschoolvalues peace.pdf

Please discuss our termly value with your child at home and encourage them to share how they have been ‘living out’ the value in their daily life.

Literacy

In our Literacy sessions we will be working on developing our reading, writing and oracy through a range of genres. Each session will feature the following format:

- An engaging warm up (Consolidating past skills or developing new skills)

- Concrete learning (Development of Literacy skills)

This half term we will be exploring character and setting descriptions, newspaper articles, using dialogue, formal persuasive letter writing and writing our own narrative. We will use the skills we have learnt in out topic lessons.

Reading continues to be an extremely important part of your child's learning. We take part in Guided Group Reading sessions daily. These sessions aim to not only develop their reading skills, but also broad their exposure to to different literary genres, continue to develop their vocabulary and grammar knowledge and support reflections and inference skills. Please help to support these sessions by regularly reading with your child at home.

To continue to encourage a love of reading we will also be reading a class book this half term - High Rise Mystery, by Sharna Jackson. Through it we will continue to focus on the reading skills of vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval, and summarising.

Numeracy

In our Numeracy sessions we will be working on developing our maths and reasoning skills to become confident Mathematician . Each session will feature the following format:

- An engaging warm up (Consolidating past skills or developing new skills)

- Concrete learning (Development of Numeracy skills)

In Numeracy this half term, we will be focusing on decimals, negative numbers, converting units and volume. We will continue to build on our knowledge of written calculations. We will be answering problem solving questions linked to each area to consolidate our learning.

We will be using Magma Maths in school to support our learning, please encourage your child to log on at home to continue their learning.

We will continue to use TTRS regularly. Please encourage the children to use this regularly at home; it really does make a difference to the children’s confidence and ability in maths if they have a secure grasp of their times tables.

- Times Tables Rock Stars - click here for information for parents.

Times tables games - Learn them all here!

Times Tables Games for 7 to 11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)

Times tables games and songs 1-12 - BBC Bitesize

Welsh

The Welsh language is very important to us. We encourage both staff and children to use incidental Welsh both inside and outside of the classroom. We enjoy our daily Helpwr Heddiw sessions to support children in learning new phrases by playing fun Welsh games.

In our Welsh lessons we will be focussing on being able to describe ourselves. Focusing on what we like and enjoying, including food and past times, as well as what we don't like or enjoy. We will be looking to extend this by using achos (because) and ond (but) to add more detail to our descriptions of ourselves.

Modern Foreign Languages (MFL)

MFL is under review at the moment. It is a section of the 'Languages Connect Us' in our Literacy Curriculum.

Internet Safety

At St Mellons, we promote the use of 'SMART' rules, as we know how important it is to stay safe online.

Please encourage your children to use these 'SMART' rules at home too.

For more information please visit https://hwb.gov.wales/zones/online-safety/key-information/primary-learners/

Health and Wellbeing

The Curriculum for Wales is now a statutory requirement since September 2022 for all schools in Wales. It has a key role to play in helping children and young people navigate the world safely. Welsh Government wants education to help our children to develop as healthy, confident individuals, ready for the next chapter in their life after school. Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) encompasses the knowledge, skills, dispositions and values that will empower learners to:

• support their health and well-being

• develop healthy, safe and fulfilling relationships of all kinds, including those with family and friends, and in time, romantic and sexual relationships

• navigate and make sense of how relationships, sex, gender and sexuality shape their own and other people’s identities and lives

• understand and support their rights and those of others to enjoy equitable, safe, healthy and fulfilling relationships throughout their lives.

Please click here for more information curriculum-for-wales-relationships-sexuality-education-code.pdf (gov.wales)

Healthy Schools

We are very proud to be promoting a healthy school. We encourage all children to eat healthy during snack and lunch times.

We are able to provide snack for your children in school at a daily cost of £2 per week / £14 per term. Please pay via ParentPay.

Please ensure that your child has a labelled bottle in school daily, containing water only. We have fresh drinking water fountains, where the children can refill their bottles.

For advice on how to make a healthy packed lunch, please visit: https://www.nhs.uk/healthier-families/recipes/healthier-lunchboxes/

Active Travel

WOW is a pupil-led initiative where children self-report how they get to school every day using the interactive WOW Travel Tracker. If they travel sustainably (walk, cycle or scoot) once a week for a month, they get rewarded with a badge. It's that easy!

Please support us on our Active Travel mission by encouraging your child to walk, cycle or scoot to school, or use Park and Stride. This will help keep our bodies healthy and help reduce our carbon footprint!

Picture News

Picture News turns news stories into engaging weekly talking points and activities for our assemblies and classroom sessions. We discuss current affairs during worship time on Mondays and relate them to our Christian values.

Useful Links

HWB: https://hwb.gov.wales - Hwb Collection of online tools provided to all schools in Wales by the Welsh Government

Ask your teacher for your HWB password. On Hwb you can...

access your personal Hwb email
use online Microsoft software (Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc)
use J2e
and much, much more.

Giglets offers your child the ability to read books online and answer questions abouot what they have read to show their understanding. Books will be allocated to your child by the teacher for them to enjoy at home or as part of GGR sessions:

https://pupil.gigletsedu.com/landing

BBC Bitesize is free and has many activities to practice all aspects of the Literacy and Numeracy framework.

Practise coding skills on Scratch

Multiplication Grid Game

Hit the Button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ - Great online games for curriculum areas

https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn - BBC Bitesize

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html - Lots of online games linked to different areas of the curriculum

https://www.learn-welsh.net/welshgames - Online Welsh games

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/5-a-day/ - Corbett Maths - 5-a-day Challenges

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/ - White Rose Maths - Reasoning Challenges