Welcome to Year 5

Miss Brown, Miss Daffern and Miss Jump welcome you to Year 5.

P.E.

Children are to come to school in their P.E kits on their designated days. Please ensure that your child comes appropriately dressed following school PE policy.

Tuesday: Indoor PE this term will be badminton.

Thursday: Outdoor PE will be football for this term.

Reading:

Children have all been issued with a colour banded reading book and they have been encouraged to also pick a free reading book from either the classroom, library or home to really instil that love and passion for reading.

In year 5 the expectation is for you to read with your child minimum of 5 times per week and record it in their reading record.  A parent, carer or guardian signature will be required for each read. This will be checked weekly by a member of staff in year 5.

Please refer to the reading records for guidance and examples on possible questions that you could ask your child about the text which they are reading.

Spellings:

The children in Year 5 have been split into 2 spelling groups. It is essential that spellings are practised at home due to the more challenging nature of the year 5 spellings. This will be reassessed at the end of Spring term for suitability.

Spellings will be introduced on Monday and tested on a Friday. 
All children have access to Spelling Shed which is a valuable online tool. Children should be accessing this at home via their log on and playing minimum 5 – 10 mins per day to really embed the sounds and spelling patterns. In turn, this will help with long term memory and increase their weekly spelling scores. 

Homework:

Year 5 will receive a ‘Homework Choice Menu’ filled with fun, creative activities linked to this term’s curriculum topic – Space. This is a free choice menu, and the children are expected to complete at least 6 activities over each half term, with the option to do more if they wish.

It would be wonderfully beneficial if your children could also access Spelling Shed and Times Table Rockstars (TTRS). Ideally, children should play at least 10 games of TTRS and Spelling Shed each week to support with fluency. Logins for Spelling Shed and TTRS can be found in your child's Reading Records. If you do not have this then please let your child’s teacher know.

   

Timetables

Charlton

Eliot

Newton

What We're Learning

Details of the Year 5 learning journey can be found here: 

Year 5 - What we're learning

Please note, this page will be updated termly, so please keep checking back.

Summer Term

Summer

Spring Term

Spring term is set to be full of adventure, imagination and discovery, with lots of opportunities for children to creatively learn and explore our exciting themes: Space, and North America.

In English, we are exploring inspiring real-life events and imaginative fiction through a range of engaging activities. We begin with a written debate about the historic moon landing of Apollo 11, where we discuss its significance and the impact it has on the world. After reading Hidden Figures, we write a newsletter about Katherine Johnson, celebrating her achievements and the vital role she plays in space exploration. We then compose a persuasive letter to NASA, explaining why we would love the opportunity to become astronauts and what qualities we would bring to the role. During our whole-class reading sessions, we enjoy rich and thought-provoking texts. First, we read The Greenling, move on to the exciting adventure story Cogheart, exploring their themes, characters, and language together.

In Maths, Year 5 will embark on our new topics of fractions, multiplication and division, perimeter and area finishing of with statistics. This will deepen our understanding of more complex mathematical problems and prepare them for future assessments. In preparation children will be regularly practising their times tables in class.

Our science learning will focus on Space and Forces where we look in detail about the planets in our Solar System, exploring their key characteristics such as size, position and surface features, as well as understanding the role of gravity. We are investigating different forces acting on objects, including pushes, pulls and resistance, and making links to how these forces operate in space, particularly how gravity keeps planets in orbit and affects movement.

Within our PE lessons we will be engaged and focused as we take on the new sport of Badminton, encouraging perseverance, mindfulness and collaborative sportsmanship.

      

Spring

Autumn Term

                             

During the Autumn term we are so excited to be learning about Greece and the Greek Gods as part of our fantastic “Who let the God’s out” topic. ‘The Adventures of Odysseus’ and ‘Who let the Gods out’ will be the texts we are reading and studying, using them to write a range of genres including; a setting description and a letter. We will study Ancient Greece and the impact and influence they have had on modern day societies in our theme lessons. During the term in Science we will work scientifically and practically to investigate properties and changes in materials. We will investigate materials that make the best properties for a task. In Autumn 2 we will cover changes in materials including soluble and separating solutions. The children have lots of exciting lessons to look forward to during our fantastic topic.

Whole Class Reading: Year 5 will be reading a range of texts throughout the term including; ‘Way Home’ by Libby Hathorn and ‘Beetle Boy’ by M.G. Leonard and ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q Rauf’. We will discuss the texts at length and through our guided reading sessions develop the children’s overall reading skills.

Autumn