Year 5 -Redwood 2025 - 2026

This weeks spellings (18/09/2025):

Welcome to Redwood Class Page! 

The Year 5 teacher this year is Mrs Prestidge and our teaching assistant is Mrs Medlock. 

Hello everyone, and welcome to our class page! We’re really looking forward to an exciting year ahead in Year 5, full of fun, challenges and lots of opportunities to shine.

Our first topic this term is called Dynamic Dynasties, where we’ll be exploring the fascinating history of Ancient China. We’ll be trying our hand at taotie mask art, diving into rich and imaginative literacy work, and discovering some amazing stories from the past.

In Redwood Class, we love to work as a team, celebrate each other’s successes, and always give things our very best effort.  This page will be a place to share our adventures, from big projects to everyday moments of learning.

We can’t wait to show you all the wonderful things we get up to this year – so keep checking back to see what’s new!

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.

Redwood Class Spotlight – Our First Week Back

What a fantastic start to the year! It has been wonderful to welcome Redwood back after the summer, and we’ve already packed so much into our first week.

We have begun exploring Ancient Chinese dynasties, plotting them carefully onto a timeline, and sketched some striking taotie mask art inspired by ancient designs. In maths, the children have been learning Roman numerals up to 1,000 and diving into place value all the way to 10,000. Our writing has been especially creative, with each child producing their own summer storybook, complete with beautifully decorated collage covers.

In computing, we’ve started our new coding journey—already experimenting with making changes to a game using code.

It’s been a brilliant, busy first week back, and I’ve really enjoyed seeing everyone’s enthusiasm and creativity shining through.