Year 5
Welcome to Year 5 2025-26
Welcome to Year 5.
We work with you and your parents to have a fabulous Year 5!
Mrs Holmes, Mrs Norbury, and Miss Evans 
Important Messages
Most messages will be communicated straight from the office via the app so please make sure your contact details are up to date. Thank you.
PE Days
Full uniform on the first day of term. No PE kit needed!
Autumn Term
5HN - PE days will be Wednesday and Friday - Please come to school in your PE kit on these days.
5E - PE days will be - Please come to school in your PE kit on these days.
Our Learning
Autumn: Anglo Ancestors
Spring: The final frontier
Summer: A road trip to America
Homework
English and Maths are set each week and the children have a week to complete the activity. Lists of spellings will be sent out at the start of every half term for the children to practice at home using methods of their choice. In year 5 we are moving towards the children being more independent with completing and handing in their homework but they may still need support. Parents and carers, the children should be able to do their homework independently but we advise that you support your child with their homework and encourage their best effort. Work set is usually consolidation and application. Ongoing home work should be reading, spelling and times tables for a short period each day. If you have any questions or issues you would like to raise with us, please feel free to approach us in the playground after school or send an email via the office and we shall get back to you as quickly as possible 
Monday - Maths will be given out to be handed back in the following Monday.
We use a BLUE homework folder for Maths.
Friday - On Friday bring in the Red English Homework folder, which will contain completed English Homework and have evidence that the weekly spellings have been practised.
Spelling booklets will be given out at the start of each half term and need to be kept in the RED English Homework folders. They contain lists of spellings we are working on in school each week. These should be practised at home for 10 minutes. There will also be a weekly English homework, which is always set and handed in on a Friday. You have a week to complete it and seek help if you are unsure of anything. Spend 20 minutes on your English Homework.
Please read at home regularly and practice your number facts and multiplication and division facts.
Autumn Term Overview:
English - Beowulf, Biographies and Kennings
Class Novel - Street Child - Berlie Doherty
Whole Class Reading - Street Child, Texts linked to our Science and History topics
Maths - Mastering Number, Place Value, Number, Roman Numerals, Addition, Subtraction, Mental strategies, Multiples, Factors, Rounding, Equivalent Fractions, Improper Fractions, Mixed Numbers, Ordering Fractions, Addition and Subtraction of Fractions, Multiplication.
History - Anglo Saxons and a visit in role to Tatton Park in November
Geography - The UK
Religion, beliefs and values - Why do some people believe God exists? What would Jesus do? Can we live by the values of Jesus in the 21st Century?
French - Telling the time. France and other French speaking countries
PSHE - Class Charter, Feelings and Emotions: Anger, Peer Pressure, inclusion and acceptance.
Computing - Creating and searching databases
Science - Materials and their properties, dissolving, reversible and irreversible changes
Art - Zentangles, illuminated letters
DT - Bread Making - Anglo Saxon Style
PE - Dance and Gymnastics with Mrs Holmes on Wednesdays Outdoor PE with Mrs Norbury on Fridays
Reading
Reading is a valuable skill that all children should have the opportunity to develop. We would like to work together with you to develop your child's reading. You can support this by reading with your children at home and sign the yellow reading record to let us know how they are getting on. Books can be changed once the children have finished them and they are returned to school. We encourage the children to read a wide range of texts and different genres. Whole class reading takes place each week with the class teacher.
