Year 5 2025 - 2026
Welcome to Year 5
Your Y5 teachers are:
Mrs Allen/Mrs Gadbury (5A) and Mrs Cross (5C).
(Mrs Gadbury will teach on a Wednesday in 5A, Mrs Allen will teach the other days.)
We enjoy teaching Year 5 and we are excited for a new school year!
How to reach us:
If you need to contact us, you can use the blue organiser, go via the office or pop us an e mail at the class e mail addresses shown. We cannot be available for more than a quick verbal message on the playground in the mornings, as we need to be inside with the children as soon as possible, so if your query will need a longer conversation, please let us know and we will arrange a mutually convenient time to speak with you.
Miss Cross's email Address:
5C.homework@pussbank.cheshire.sch.uk
Mrs Allen's email Address:
5A.homework@pussbank.cheshire.sch.uk
We will endeavour to reply to an e mail within 72 hours.
Microsoft Teams
Once term is underway, please ensure that your child logs in to your class Teams page each week, as this will contain some other Y5 information, as well as weekly homework. You can use the Teams app , or use it online. Your teacher will let you know when it is time to do so. If you cannot access Teams, let us know.
Hometime Arrangements
Please can you write in your child's organiser if you wish for them to either meet you at the school gates or walk home from school or if there are changes with these arrangements. Additionally, please make sure that your child knows what their arrangements are.
Swimming
5A only will go swimming in the Autumn term. (5C will go later, in Spring term.) A letter was sent out in July and permission should have been given online via Arbor. We start on Tuesday 9th September and the bus will leave after morning registration. Pupils should come to school in uniform and bring their swimming kit in a bag.
Children need:
- A bag with their kit in, which is big enough to hold their uniform and shoes when they change
- A towel
- Goggles if preferred and that they are able to use safely
- A swimming hat (rubber or fabric)
- A towel
- A snack for afterwards Earrings and other jewellery should not be worn.
PE
There will not be a PE lesson for either class until the week beginning Monday 8th September.
Children should wear PE kit to school on their PE day . The list of required PE kit is written in the blue organiser.
Earrings and other jewellery should not be worn.
5A have PE on a Wednesday .
5C hve PE on a Monday.
Music
All of Year 5 will have Music lessons on a Wednesday with specialist teachers from the Love Music Trust. This will be an exciing opportunity to learn how to play a brass instrument or a clarinet.
Educational Visits in Year 5
As ever, Year 5 will have the amazing experience of visiting the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester in the Summer Term and this uear, we will be visiting Joddrell Bank in the Spring Term.