Year 5 Staff:

Welcome to Key Stage 2

Welcome to Year 5 and your child’s first year at Aston Fields Middle School. We know that the transition from first to middle school can be quite daunting; however, we strongly believe that your child’s journey with us will be an enjoyable and memorable one.

Our September transition day provides us with a fantastic opportunity to start to develop a positive relationship with your child through interactive and engaging activities. For this reason, we would really appreciate your support in ensuring that your child completes their transition booklet, which they will bring with them on their first day.

As your child will be new to the routines and life in a middle school, most of their lessons will be spent with their forms and different teaching groups in order to allow them to form new friendships and develop new skills. Throughout the year, we prioritise academic progress through an engaging curriculum whilst also supporting your child in developing positive character traits by organising various Drop Down Days, workshops, assemblies and activities.

We look forward to welcoming you and your child to Aston Fields Middle School, and we cannot wait to celebrate their academic and personal achievements together.

Miss Nowak and the Year 5 Team

Please browse our introduction presentation below:

Pupils in Year 5 are offered a range of experiences, opportunities and activities throughout the year to encourage them to transition to Aston Fields Middle School and feel very much a part of their new school from the very first day. They work closely with their form teachers and experience a range of curriculum subjects within their forms and different teaching groups, allowing them to form new friendships and develop new skills.

Year 5 Bring Shakespeare's Witches to Life

Over the first few weeks of term, Year 5 have been exploring the works of Shakespeare, with a particular focus on Macbeth and the famous witches. Inspired by the witches' chant, "Double, double toil and trouble," pupils worked collaboratively to create their own gruesome and imaginative poems.

Every child took part in the project, using creativity, teamwork and performance skills to bring their poetry to life. The poems were packed with excellent rhymes, ambitious vocabulary and wonderfully spooky ideas that captured the spirit of Shakespeare's mysterious witches.

Each group performed their poem to their classmates, showcasing fantastic expression, dramatic actions and of course, their very best witchy laughs! Following the class performances, ten groups were selected to perform in front of the whole of Year 5. The standard was incredibly high, making it a difficult task to choose the winning groups.

We are extremely proud of all our pupils for their enthusiasm, confidence and creativity. Every child performed brilliantly and demonstrated impressive speaking and listening skills throughout the project. Congratulations to our three winning groups and well done to everyone who took part in making this Shakespearean challenge such a memorable success!

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1^st Place 5GL

Felicity

Miriam

Maya

Lily

2^nd Place 5NL

Henry

Leo

Noah 

3^rd Place 5SW

Parisa

Alicia

Rosie

Bryher

Homework Pupils will normally receive Maths and English homework each week.  In English, pupils are given a homework folder and receive either a grammar and punctuation task, or a comprehension task which consolidates prior learning.  In addition, pupils will complete activities set on Spelling Shed and Lexia to recall and build upon their knowledge and understanding within SPaG and comprehension.  Pupils will record their log-in details, to access these websites, in their homework diaries. In addition, pupils should be reading their Renaissance books every night for at least 20 minutes. To support reading skills, pupils will find it helpful if parents/carers could ask a range of retrieval and inference questions based on their current Renaissance book. In Maths, pupils are given a homework folder and receive a task each week, which either consolidates prior learning or prepares them for the next topic. Pupils are also encouraged to practise times tables to 12 x 12 on a regular basis. Teachers may set online homework using websites such as Times Table Rockstars, Sumdog and MyMaths. Pupils will record their log-in details, to access these websites, in their homework diaries.    In addition to Maths and English, Year 5 pupils may receive homework in Science and History/Geography. This could be a stand-alone task or part of an ongoing project. There is a weekly Homework Club where pupils are able to complete both written and online homework with the support from a member of staff and older pupils.

Drop Down Days We regularly explore what it means to be us, how we are all individuals and the different characteristics, values and skills we all demonstrate and develop. We have special days during the year when we celebrate who we are and discover more about teamwork, values and character through a range of different activities led by staff and visitors to the school. These days include Drop Down Days which focus on different themes and consist of informative and engaging sessions; Modern Britain Day during which all pupils learn about what it means to be British and British values through sessions led by different teachers from each house. To emphasise inclusivity and good character, we hold an 'All Different, All Equal Day' during which pupils learn about the ways of life, cultures and beliefs of different places around the World. Back to Top