FABULOUS YEAR 5!

Welcome to Year 5's class page.

Here you will find information about our fantastic learning, experiences, class information and any other news.

 Year 5 is full of fun, hard work and teamwork. Please remember to bring in your stationery and reading book every day, so that you are ready to learn as soon as you enter the classroom! 

 

Welcome to the Autumn Term in Year 5!

We are excited to welcome you back for a fantastic term of learning and discovery. To ensure that everyone is ready to learn each day, please bring the following equipment to school:

  • Blue pen
  • Pink and green pencil
  • Rubber
  • Ruler
  • Glue stick
  • Scissors

Having the correct equipment will help you stay organised and prepared for all of your learning activities. We look forward to a successful and enjoyable term together! 🍂📚✏️

 

Staff 

5C - Mrs Christoforou, Ms McCarthy, Mrs Antoniou 

 

5H - Mrs Hughes, Mrs Fleming and Mrs Dunton. 

 

 

Key Dates and Reminders

 

 

 

The Year 5 Curriculum and Resources:

Mathematics
We will build confidence and fluency in key mathematical concepts through a range of practical activities, investigations, and problem-solving challenges.Children will learn about:

Place Value

  • Reading, writing, ordering, and comparing numbers.
  • Understanding the value of digits within larger numbers.
  • Counting forwards and backwards in different steps.

Properties of Number

  • Identifying factors, multiples, prime numbers, and square numbers.
  • Exploring number patterns and relationships.
  • Using mathematical vocabulary accurately.

Mental Strategies

  • Developing efficient methods for calculating mentally.
  • Applying number facts to solve problems quickly and accurately.
  • Choosing appropriate strategies for different calculations.

Addition and Subtraction

  • Using formal written methods to solve calculations.
  • Applying addition and subtraction skills to real-life problems.
  • Checking answers using estimation and inverse operations.

Multiplication and Division

  • Strengthening knowledge of multiplication tables and related division facts.
  • Using formal methods for multiplication and division.
  • Solving multi-step problems involving multiplication and division.

Fractions: Comparing, Adding and Subtracting

  • Comparing and ordering fractions.
  • Identifying equivalent fractions.
  • Adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator and related denominators.
  • Applying fraction knowledge to solve reasoning and problem-solving tasks.

Throughout the term, pupils will be encouraged to explain their mathematical thinking, develop resilience when tackling challenges, and apply their skills across a range of contexts. 🔢➕➖✖️➗📚

 

Design and Technology: Cooking and Nutrition – Bread

This term, Year 5 will be learning about Cooking and Nutrition through the exciting topic of Bread. Children will discover how bread is made, explore the science behind baking, and develop practical cooking skills.

Children will:

  • Prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques.
  • Learn how to follow recipes safely and accurately.
  • Develop food preparation skills, including measuring, mixing, kneading, and shaping dough.
  • Understand the importance of hygiene and safety in the kitchen.
  • Evaluate and improve their finished products.

Science Link: Materials and Their Properties (Yeast)

 

French

This term, Year 5 will be developing their French speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills through the topics Myself and My Family and What is the Date?

Myself and My Family

Children will:

  • Learn vocabulary to talk about themselves and their family members.
  • Introduce themselves and describe members of their family.
  • Use simple sentences to share information about age, names, and relationships.
  • Build confidence in speaking and listening to French.

What is the Date?

Children will:

  • Learn the days of the week and months of the year in French.
  • Ask and answer questions about the date.
  • Practise reading, writing, and saying dates accurately.
  • Apply their knowledge through conversations and interactive activities.

Through these topics, pupils will develop their confidence in using French and gain a greater understanding of another language and culture.

 

PSHE 

This term, Year 5 will be exploring the themes Being Me in My World and Celebrating Difference. These units will help children develop confidence, respect for others, and an understanding of their role within the school and wider community.

Being Me in My World

Children will:

  • Understand their rights and responsibilities as members of the school community.
  • Reflect on their goals and aspirations for the year ahead.
  • Explore how their actions can affect others.
  • Learn about teamwork, cooperation, and making positive contributions.
  • Develop an understanding of respect, responsibility, and citizenship.

 

Celebrating Difference

Children will:

  • Recognise and celebrate differences between themselves and others.
  • Develop empathy, understanding, and respect for diversity.
  • Learn about the importance of inclusion and equality.
  • Explore how to challenge stereotypes and unkind behaviour.
  • Build positive relationships within a diverse community.

This unit supports learning in Diversity (D) and Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC).

Through these topics, pupils will develop the skills and understanding needed to become respectful, responsible, and caring members of society. 🌟🤝🌍

 

 

Ideas to help your child at home:

  • Use the Pobble 365 website to practise creative writing
  • Practise times tables using Times Tables Rockstars
  • Read a book together and discuss what has happened 
  • Discuss new vocabulary
  • Read a range of genres together: letters that come through the post, news articles etc
  • Practise spellings by writing words in different colours or making a nice poster with tricky words on
  • Ask your child to explain the maths concept we have been learning this week
  • Baking – practise measuring and converting grams/kilograms
  • Use digital and analogue clocks to tell the time - maybe look at a bus/train timetable together before taking a ride.

Oxford owl:

For extra spelling resources and ebooks please follow this link:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ 

Username: cranborne

Password: school 1 

 

 

In English, we will be studying the books, CloudBusting and Macbeth.

We will be including:

  • conjunctions
  • fronted adverbials 
  • a range of punctuation 
  • persuasive language 

Children will produce descriptive writing and narrative pieces linked to our core texts.

 

Please avoid reading the books with your children in advance, as this can spoil the excitement and intrigue!

Each book sequence involves reading, text analysis, vocabulary investigations, key grammatical skills, drafting, writing and publishing. We usually spend between 3-4 weeks on each text.

 In class, we will be focusing on spelling, punctuation and grammar - not just during English lessons, but across the curriculum.

In addition to the daily English lessons, there are regular comprehension, spelling and grammar lessons.

Please make sure that the key spellings (sent home after the transition morning) are practised well and displayed somewhere at home.

Below is the Year 5 assessment framework which is used to help level children's writing abilities. By the end of year 5, we expect children to be working at the 'expected standard' and this means that all of the criteria in the first two sections must be consistently demonstrated by your children.

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Art

In Art, children will develop observational skills and precision in drawing. They will develop close observational skills:

  • Create fine detail in a drawing
  • Show life-like qualities and real-life proportions
  • Build up layer in a picture.
 
In Design and Technology, the children will be learning about structures by designing and making photo frames. They will apply their understanding of how to strengthen, stiffen, and reinforce more complex structures, developing practical skills and creative problem-solving along the way.

 

Religious Education 

This term, Year 5 will explore key beliefs and teachings within Islam and Christianity, helping them to develop a deeper understanding of different faiths and worldviews.

Islam - Revelation

Big Question: What does the Qur’an reveal about Allah and His guidance?

Children will:

  • Learn about the Qur’an as the holy book of Islam.
  • Explore what Muslims believe the Qur’an teaches about Allah.
  • Understand how the Qur’an provides guidance for Muslims in their daily lives.
  • Reflect on the importance of revelation and sacred texts within faith communities.
  • Discuss how religious teachings can influence beliefs, values, and actions.

Christianity - Gospel

Big Question: Why is the Gospel such good news for Christians?

Children will:

  • Explore the meaning of the word Gospel and its significance in Christianity.
  • Learn about key teachings of Jesus found in the Gospels.
  • Understand why Christians view Jesus' message as "good news".
  • Reflect on how Christian beliefs influence the way people live their lives.
  • Consider how messages of forgiveness, hope, and love continue to inspire Christians today.

Through these units, pupils will develop their knowledge of religious beliefs and practices while building respect, understanding, and curiosity about different faiths and cultures. ✨📖🌍

 
In Computing, the children will be learning how to use spreadsheets to organise and analyse data effectively. They will also develop their coding skills by creating simple programs, helping them understand how algorithms work and how technology can be used to solve problems.
 
 

Spellings:

We will teach and test spellings weekly. Children will practise these in class and also bring them home to learn.

Attached is the National Curriculum Statutory Spellings for years 3/4 and year 5/6.

Please note the children should be mainly secure with the Year 3/4 spellings and working towards the Year 5/6 words.

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Science

Living Things and Their Habitats

This term, Year 5 will be learning about Living Things and Their Habitats. We will explore how different animals grow and change throughout their lives and discover how plants and animals reproduce.

Children will learn to:

  • Describe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, amphibian, insect, and bird.
  • Explain the process of reproduction in a variety of plants and animals.
  • Compare and identify the stages of different life cycles.
  • Understand how living things grow, develop, and produce offspring.

Through investigations, discussions, and practical activities, pupils will develop their scientific knowledge and understanding of the natural world around them. 🌱🐸🐛🐦🐘

 

 

Forces

Year 5, we will also be learning about Forces and how they affect the movement of objects in our everyday lives. Through investigations and practical activities, children will explore different types of forces and the ways they act on objects.

Children will learn to:

  • Explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object.
  • Identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance, and friction on moving objects.
  • Investigate how different forces can affect the speed and movement of objects.
  • Recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys, and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.

By the end of the unit, pupils will have a deeper understanding of how forces work and how they are used in the world around us. 🚀⚙️🍃🌍

 

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Year 5 Curriculum Overview

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Home learning in case of school closure or illness: 

In the event of your child being unwell or your child needing to work at home, please see below some activities that your child could complete if well enough to do so. 

If you need any help or support when working from home then please email your class teacher

Thank you

A project:

  • Create a presentation about  Ancient Greece. This could be an aspect of life, a study of one/some of the gods, a Greek myth, a well-known person or something else of your choosing...

The presentation could be a poster, leaflet or PowerPoint. It's up to you!

 

Oak Academy:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-year/year-5

BBC Bitesize

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn

 

 Maths practise:

https://www.transum.org/Maths/Exercise/Furthermore.asp

https://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/students/Know_Your_Place.asp

https://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/Students/Make_1000.asp

https://www.transum.org/Software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/students/Basic_Division.asp?Level=4

Test your speed and mental maths against the clock:

https://www.transum.org/Maths/Activity/Beat_The_Clock/Default.asp?Level=7

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