Welcome to Year 5 - Opal Class

Staff

Mrs V Leach

Opal

BA (Hons) PGCE

Hi my name is Mrs Leach and I am the current year 5 teacher in Opal. As well as being a class teacher I am also the school lead on creative arts. One of my big passions is for the creative arts so I ensure this is delivered across the whole school

Miss C Newell

Opal

PE Day & PE Kit

PE will take place on Wednesday.

Please ensure you child comes to school in their PE Kit on that day.

What's New

Download Timetable

opal_timetable_2024__2025.docx

Snack Money

Tuck Shop is available after school
on Wednesday and Friday.

Daily healthy snack is available to purchase every day at break time. Snack can be purchased at morning break. The maximum amount snack will cost is £3 a week. Children are welcome to bring their own snack from home which is less than 110 calories.

Reading Books

Reading Books will usually be changed Wednesday and Friday. Please read with your child every night and sign their reading record.

Knowledge Organiser

You have been given a Knowledge Organiser and Homework Grid with some tasks relating to our topic.

Each week we will have a focus that has been covered on the Knowledge Organiser

space_topic_ko.pptx

Homework

Children will get up to 15 spellings per week to learn at home which should be handed in every Thursday.
Children must read at least 3 times per week at home. If children read each night totaling 5 times per week then a weekly reward is given.
One giant step homework activities grid - see link below for tasks.

space_topic_homework_grid_opal.docx

Recent Terms Archive

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WELCOME TO OPAL

Overview

Autumn 2 - One Giant Step

This half term we will be learning about all the advancements of space travel and exploring key figures such as Tim Peake, Ada Lovelace - who was a Victorian Mathematician and Tim Berners Lee who invented the internet. All of these people have contributed to the development of space travel with their breakthroughs in maths and computer programing.

As we learn about all of this historical information, we will create newspaper reports and fiction writing involving lots of descriptive writing and engaging sentence structures to make great progress in our writing.

Science – Earth and Space

RE – Christianity

CLASP – Group A- Construction

Group B - 3D Printing/Computing

Group C - Textile Art

Jigsaw- Celebrating Differences

The next unit of our PSHE (Personal, Social & Health Education) learning is titled ‘Celebrating Differences’. Just as last year, the whole school will be engaging in this theme following our Jigsaw Programme at age-appropriate levels.

Year 5 - Week by week break down of lessons

Lesson 1 – Different cultures

Lesson 2 – Racism

Lesson 3 – Rumours and name-calling

Lesson 4 – Types of bullying

Lesson 5 – Does money matter

Lesson 6 – Celebrating difference across the world

Homework:

Spelling and maths homework will be given out on a Friday and should be returned the following Thursday. If a child’s homework is not handed in during morning registration then they will complete missing homework in their lunchtime after they have eaten their lunch.

Special Events in Opal Class

Autumn 2 term starts- Monday 4th November
London Trip 2025-TBC
Lake District Trip 2025- TBC

Check out what’s been happening in Opal class so far this year.

Autumn 1 -

Fun and laughter as we find out how hard it was being in the Land Army during WW2- Look at our gallery photos to see how the children fared with harvesting, cow milking and rat catching.
Check out the images from our Nursing skills session where the children tried their hand at suturing wounds using needle and thread and bandaging injuries for the walking wounded. We had lots of fun learning all about the jobs typically done if you were part of a nursing team.