Teacher: Mr Crowther

Teaching Assistants: Miss Sheppard, Mr Turner, Ms Lavelle

Welcome to Year 5!

- In order to help with the smooth running of lunchtimes and to help children settle in the mornings, wherever possible order school lunches at home. Whether your child has a school or packed lunch, do ensure they bring a healthy snack (such as a piece of fruit) for them to eat at break time.

- Children should bring the correct equipment to school each day (pencil cases and reading book). Pencil cases can be left in your child's tray overnight, rather than taking them home, if they will not need them. For our writing activities, children are expected to write in blue handwriting pen only. For clarification on what is or is not appropriate stationery, please speak to Mr Crowther or the School Office.

- Children should have a coat in wet weather, and a water bottle every day (containing water only).

- Ensure all personal possessions (stationery, school uniform, water bottles, lunchboxes etc.) are named - this will make it easier to reunite pupils with their lost property. 

- Our PE sessions will be on Tuesday (outdoors) and Friday (indoors) afternoons. Children should come to school dressed in their PE kit. Ideally, earrings should be removed before school, but if this is not possible, please cover them with tape.

- Children in Year 5 are permitted to walk home alone from School. Children with this permission are also allowed to bring a mobile phone which will be stored securely during the school day. A form needs to be completed to give this permission, and these can be obtained from the school office.

We are very much looking forward to a successful school year!

Happy New Year!

As we move into the Spring Term, there are a few things to be reminded/aware of:

1) Children should come to school with the correct equipment for learning, this includes blue handwriting pens, pencils, a ruler and glue stick. We only have a limited amount of back-up equipment for the children to use.

2) Children should come to school with a water bottle. This bottle must only contain water: no squash or fizzy drinks.

3) You will be aware of changes to the PE arrangements in school. As the children will be going swimming this term, they will not be expected to change at school every week for our PE session. However, there may be additional PE sessions with Mr Poynter and his team, but these will be communicated ahead of the day. Boys and girls will change separately.

4) PE kit, including swimming kit, can be brought into school before the day of the session and left on your child's peg. This will then come home after the session for washing.

5) Regarding swimming, if it is convenient for you, and you would like to collect your child from the Bracknell Leisure Centre after their swimming lesson on a Wednesday, please inform the office and this can be arranged. The lessons finish at 2:45pm and we aim to have the children in the main reception area at 3pm to allow for dismissal. Please wait in the reception area and we will bring the children down to you - you do not need to come up to the swimming pool/changing area.

Thank you, as always, for your continued support.

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Mr Crowther