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
Spring Term
5HN - PE days will be Thursday and Friday - Please come to school in your PE kit on these days. Swimming will be Thursdays.
5E - Spring Term PE days will be Monday, Swimming on Thursday and Stockport County on Friday - 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.
Spring Term Overview:
English - Space themed. Emotive writing, journals and description using imagery
Class Novel - Cosmic and Oh Maya Gods
Whole Class Reading - Cosmic, Oh Maya Gods, Curriculum related texts and Reading skills focused questioning and writing
Maths - Place value, fractions, decimals, percentages, multiplication and division and formal methods.
History - The Maya - In which ways was the Mayan Civilisation more or less advanced than Britain in 900AD?
Geography - Could the geography of Central America cause the Mayan civilisation to disappear?
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?
Then
If God exists everywhere, why go to a place of worship?
French - The planets
PSHE - Looking out for each other, Enterprise, and First Aid
Computing - Create and search, databases, using variables, online reputation, managing information online
Science - Space
Art - Space Art
DT - Mechanical Structures- Fairground Rides
PE - Swimming on Thursdays, Stockport County 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.
