Friday 7^th November 2025

Dear Parents/Carers of Year 5,

RE: Year 5 Curriculum Letter – Autumn 2 ‘Why Should We Remember?’

Welcome to Autumn 2 and thank you for your support since September. We have an interesting term ahead of us, with a lot of work and fun to be had! Our Learning Journey topic this term is titled: ‘Why Should We Remember?’.  Below we have outlined some important information regarding this term.

P.E. Lessons

Please ensure that your child comes to school wearing school PE kit in on PE days.  This should consist of grey or black bottoms, white t-shirt and red school jumper/cardigan.  They will also need trainers or plimsolls.  As the weather turns colder, tracksuit bottoms are advised.  A reminder to all families – with exception of permitted religious items, it is expected that your child does not wear jewellery and adornments to school.  In our school policy, stud earrings are permitted however they will need to be covered or removed on PE days. Also, we ask for long hair to be tied back.

P.E. lessons are on Wednesday PPA days (5^th November, 19^th November, 3^rd December and 17^th December). Also, we have PE every Monday. 

Messages for Teachers
We want to ensure that any messages you send are received and actioned as quickly as possible. We are happy to have brief chats in the playground at the beginning or end of the day.
However, if you are unable to speak with us directly, please remember the correct channels for communication, especially when reporting pupil absence or sharing concerns/messages for the teaching staff.
To ensure messages aren’t missed, all communication should be sent directly to the school office via the main admin inbox: admin@kelvingrove.lewisham.sch.uk

Stay and Share
We will be having a parent Stay and Share event on Thursday 4^th December, a separate letter will be sent later in the term confirming the time. We will send out a separate letter in the coming weeks with dates for our Winter Events.

Homework    
Reading: Reading is essential to helping children make progress in all areas of the curriculum. Children should read for at least 15-20 minutes each day and record this in their Reading Record Book.

Maths home learning will be set on Wednesdays on Mathletics and due the following Wednesday.   Activities will reflect the learning from the previous fortnight.  

Times Tables: Children should practice all times tables and their related division facts frequently using TTRS online.  

Spellings: A spelling rule will be introduced in class on Mondays, and throughout the week lessons and activities will be completed based on this rule.   When spelling homework is sent out it will have a clear due date for the work to be returned.  Typically, this happens once or twice each half term.  

Home Learning Project: see below this letter for further details.  
Project due date: Wednesday 3^rd  December 2025.  

Other information:
Year 5 pupils can bring a healthy snack each day e.g. a piece of fruit, savoury crackers, nut free cereal bar, etc which can be eaten at morning break.  Please ensure that your child does not bring in food that contains nuts as we are a nut free school.  As Winter approaches, please ensure your child has a named coat and that all hats, scarves and gloves are named.

Thank you, and as always if you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.

Mrs Heron-Njie. Mrs Khan and Mrs Nandhra-Calow

Year 5 Team

Topic Home Learning

Year Home Learning Project – Celebrating Ghana!

Your home learning project is linked to your topic learning from last term – ‘Into Africa’.  Last term, we found out a lot of interesting facts about the continent of Africa.  We focused on the physical and human features of Ghana and compared them to the UK.  During our topic, our depth enquiry question was ‘How do human features make life in Ghana different to life in the UK?’

For your home learning project, we would like you to help us celebrate Ghana by researching an aspect of Ghana that interests you.  What would you like to know more about?

You have a few weeks to work on your project so you have time to decide what you want to research, then you can carry out your research and finally produce your final piece of work.  Your project is due to be brought into school on Wednesday 3^rd December 2025.  We will use time towards the end of term to share your project work with your class mates.

We look forward to seeing your projects.  Good luck!