Year 5

Welcome to Year 5!

‘Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart.’
Colossians 3:23-24

Meet the Staff

Year 5B Teacher: Miss Brooks
Year 5A teacher: Miss Hoolighan
Teaching Assistants: Miss Derbyshire, Miss Powell and Miss Phoebe

What You Need to Know

Year 5 Overview Summer 2 2025

Year 5 Grand Spell Summer 2 2025 Group 1

Year 5 Grand Spell Summer 2 2025 Group 2

Homework will be given on Fridays to reflect the week’s learning. Homework will often cover Numeracy, Literacy, and a list of spellings in preparation for the Grand Spell each Friday.

The current school wide expectation is that children are expected to read for 5 minutes and practise their times tables every night. 

Please send your child in their PE kit for PE lessons. PE kit is a plain white t-shirt with dark trainers or pumps, and blue or black shorts. Plain black or blue tracksuit bottoms may be worn in the winter.

5B - Monday & Friday

5H - Monday & Friday

Please also provide your child with a hooded coat so they can stay warm during playtime.

In the summer months, caps can be worn when outside.

To find out more about the Year 5 curriculum, subjects, and spellings, please download the links below.

Please have a read of the document below and pick up some tips about how you can help your child with their reading.

Reading advice for parents.

What we are learning in Autumn 1:

Maths- This term children will learn; 
 

• Revise and consolidate place value in numbers up to 1,000,000.
•  Develop fluency with comparing, ordering and rounding numbers.
•  Secure written and mental methods for addition and subtraction with larger numbers.
•  Begin multiplication and division strategies, including factors, multiples, and prime numbers.
•  Explore problem-solving and reasoning tasks involving all four operations.
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English-This term, pupils will:

•  Read and respond through short pieces of writing to our class text ‘When ice cream had a meltdown’, 'Monster slayer' and 'Beowulf'
•  Explore key features of persuasive writing, characterisation, and dialogue between characters. 
•  Develop vocabulary choices and sentence variety to create impact in writing.
•  Write their own adverts inspired by the class text, focusing on planning, drafting, editing, and improving.
•  Practise grammar skills: repetition, alliteration, rhetorical questions, subjunctions, opinions, emotive language, speech and accurate punctuation. 
•  Build comprehension skills through retrieval, inference, and discussion during guided reading. 
•  Continue to improve spelling, handwriting and presentation.

Science- This term, pupils will:

• Explore how plants reproduce and the effect this has on our environment. 
•  Explore the differences in the life cycles of mammals, amphibians, insects and birds.
•  Study how living things are classified into broad groups based on similarities and differences.
•  Use keys and classification systems to identify plants and animals.
•  Develop enquiry skills through observation and research.
•  Understand the importance of habitats and the impact of environmental change.

Religion- This term, pupils will:

• Explore Creation and Covenant in the way the God has made promises to his followers throughout the bible. 
• Look at specific examples of this within scripture such as, Abraham, Joseph and Moses.
• Explore how God created the world and everything in it, and how this shows us his love and care. 
• Look at how these stories help us to understand how God has been guiding and looking after his people throughout history. 
• Read scripture as a class and through class discussion understand the impact this still has on his followers and our beliefs today.