Year 5 Staff

Ms R Coyne – Year 5 Team Leader and Tigers

Miss R Allenby – Macaws

Mrs A Lynn - Lemurs

Mrs H Horne – Learning and Teaching Assistant

Miss A Kashkina – PPA Teacher

Miss J Purtz - PPA Teacher

Year 6 Staff

Mrs K Ritchie – Year 6 Team Leader and Meerkats

Miss K Starrett –Cheetahs

Mrs C Fretwell – Flamingos (Mon-Tues)

Mrs R Wilkinson – Flamingos (Weds- Fri)

Mrs S Bradley Coles – Learning and Teaching Assistant

Mrs N Badran - Learning and Teaching Assistant

Mrs P Willis - Learning and Teaching Assistant

Miss A Kashina - PPA Teacher

Miss J Purtz - PPA Teacher

Expectation Moving into Upper School

*Encouraging Independence

*Role models for rest of school

*More responsibilities available – pupil voice groups

*Challenge – Residential, SATs, Y6 Production

*Preparation for Year 7 and Secondary School

Curriculum Overviews

OJS Planners

• *To develop organisational skills, time management and independence.
• *During Monday registration, time is given for your child to diarise the week ahead.
• *This also contains a reading record section; the children are expected to read daily.
• *Parent/adult to sign before Monday each week to acknowledge events and information for that week.

Reading

• *Children read daily in class and are expected to do so at home. (15 minutes daily).
• *Changing their books - each class have their own class library slot to choose books from as well as a class book corner. There are also ok to read books from home as well.
• *We have a daily class story time where children are read aloud to. Evidence shows this would be beneficial at home too.
• *Children should read widely - books, First News , magazines, audiobooks etc.
• *Please sign your child's reading record weekly to confirm that they have read at home.

Reading Scarpbook

• Opportunity for children to share and celebrate reading
• Every child in each class will have the opportunity to take the scrapbook home and create a page.

  

Reading Passports

Reading Passports and NYC Libraries

• We would like all our children to access the books on our Reading Passports. To support less confident readers, we’d encourage their adults to read the books to or with them.
• TOP TIP – members of Harrogate or any other NYC Library can download free audiobooks which include some of the titles on our reading passports.

Spelling

• This year we will be using the Jane Considine approach to teaching spelling as it aligns better with our writing approach.
• Spelling will be taught through a fortnightly cycle of class-based investigations and activities which should help the children understand and recognise spelling patterns.
• We will no longer be sending spelling lists home to learn as we have found that children tend not to retain words after testing and moving on.
• Please continue to encourage your child to read as widely as possible each day, as this will expose them to the spelling patterns we learn in school and make help connections in their knowledge.

Free Writing Notebooks

• This term we will be introducing short, weekly ‘free writing’ sessions as part of our morning registration activities. Pupils have told us how much they enjoy the chance to write whatever interests them as well as learning the valuable skills we teach in our English lessons.
• If you are able to, please allow your child to bring in a notebook to use for this purpose (around the size of a small exercise book.) This should allow their writing to be more personal. Anyone that is unable to bring in their own will be given a spare one from school that they can cover as they wish.

Homework

• Maths – TT Rockstars (daily) and MyMaths (x2 sessions per week)
• - Reading and Reading Passports
• - Please check homework diaries, as sometimes additional homework will be set.

TTRS

• Please encourage your child to access TTRS. It is a great way to practice multiplication and division facts, as well as being a lot of FUN! Over the next two weeks, each child will receive their own heatmap, showing areas of strength and areas to develop.

MyMaths

Please encourage your child to access MyMaths. It is a great way to learn new topics, as well as consolidating prior knowledge. At least one homework task will be set weekly and there is an expectation that all children complete this.

OJS Passports

In addition to the curriculum knowledge that we deliver, we also aim to develop lifelong skills that will play a major role in their learning both at school and in later life. The OJS Passport is designed to further enhance delivery of the wider curriculum offer at Oatlands Junior School. Beyond the classroom, we offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities, outside of the school day e.g. sporting clubs. We also offer wider curriculum activities within the school day e.g. Planetarium visit linked to the Earth and Beyond science topic in Y5.  

Golden Time

As a reward for positive behaviour, we have created Golden Time. This happens on a Friday afternoon and is an activity chosen by the children:
Just Dance, iPad time, games, mindfulness, Kahoot – the list is endless.

25 minutes to earn.
We use a traffic light system to encourage positive behaviour.
Warning (yellow card) followed by a consequence (red card) loss of 5 minutes of golden time.

Clubs

*Autumn Term – school sports clubs every night except Fridays - starting week 3.

*Run from 3.30-4.30pm.

*They are now live on the school website & Arbor for you to register your interest and close 12pm Wednesday.

Those who join Singing Club will have the opportunity to take part in some Christmas Carolling at local residential homes and Young Voices 2025 concert at Sheffield Arena!

PE

*OJS or plain t-shirt in House Team colours (red, blue, green or yellow)

*Plain navy shorts or tracksuit bottoms.

*Navy blue sweatshirt or hoodie for outdoors – OJS branded available.

*Trainers or pumps.

*Long hair tied back.

*No jewellery to be worn.

Healthy School

Peanut and nut free

*Breaktime Snacks –

Healthy snacks only please – no crisps/biscuits/sweets/chocolate bars/pastries.

*Water Bottles –

Please ensure children have a water bottle in school.

*Celebrating birthdays – no sweets, cakes etc to give out.

*Changing me (How Our Bodies Change) – Spring Term.

Keeping Myself and Others Safe

Year 5 trips and visits

We are hoping to have a trip or experience each term:

Autumn: Jorvik
Spring: Planetarium and Bikeability
Summer: Eden Camp

We will give parents and carers as much notice as possible.

Class assemblies – Year 5 World War Two

                         - Year 6 – End of Year Class Show

Communication

*Class webpage

*Comments in Homework Diaries

*Email class teachers – with concerns about curriculum, schoolwork or any pastoral concerns.

*Email / contact the school office – for medical appointments/absences or administrative information.

Helping in School

*Accompanying School Visits

Other ways of helping:

*Occupation, skills, area of knowledge

*Attend school events e.g. open hour, assemblies

*Join the PTA

*Parent Governor

 

Year 5 Bikeability and Table Tennis

Bikeability will take place in the spring and summer term. It is led by NYCC Bikeability staff and is thoroughly enjoyed by all. It is important that your child can ride a bike confidently.

Y5 will also be taking part in table tennis sessions at Harrogate Raquets this year, starting with the Tigers class. Any help would be much appreciated!

Secondary School Information 

See our Transition page for application and open day dates.

Transition

Key Stage 2 SATs

What are they?

These tests, alongside teacher assessment of English writing and science, assess pupils’ grasp of the primary curriculum.

They try to ensure that individual pupils across the country are have a secure grasp of core subjects in preparation for their next stage of study at secondary school.

When are they taking place?

Dates: Monday 11th May – Thursday 14th May 2026

All Year 6 children are tested in the following subjects:

-Reading

-English Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation

-Maths

*Writing and science is teacher assessed.

Results are reported as a scaled score.

What will be done at school to help my child prepare?

Tests can cause stress, however as a school we do try to minimise this by:

-Maintaining a full curriculum throughout the year.

-Providing children with opportunities to work through practice tests, giving them feedback and support where necessary. We will run two mock SATs weeks during the assessment periods at school so that they are familiar with the style of paper and questions.

-Providing extra support through additional teaching and intervention and tutoring groups where possible.

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