Welcome to Year 5

We are delighted to begin the new academic year with you all and can't wait to get to know you as individuals and class groups. We have wonderful topics and exciting learning set throughout the entire year!

Meet the Team

2024-25

Upcoming Events

Arctic Explorer Experience - Tuesday 22nd April 2025

Parent Arithmetic Workshop - Thursday 24th April 2025

Y5 Walesby Forest Residential - Tuesday 17th June 2025 - Wednesday 18th June 2025

PE Uniform Days

Outdoor PE - Thursday

Indoor PE - Friday 

Supporting your child at home

Reading

Y5 children will all have a colour banded reading book which is appropriate for their level as well as a reading for pleasure book.  Please support us by reading and discussing their books at home.  There is an additional sheet stuck in diaries explaining the goals and how to help your child.

Spellings

Each week the children will be given ten spellings, engaging in daily practice using a range of fun and helpful activities. You can support them to practice their weekly spellings as well as the common exception words that you will find stuck in their diaries.

Practising their spellings little and often, making it fun is key to helping your children to become confident and successful spellers.

As a team, we can help the children to become super spellers. 

Maths

Each child has a  Times Table Rock Star account and login details are stuck in diaries.  This can be accessed from home so please encourage your child to have fun and practise their times tables.  Inside diaries there is a copy of the times tables up to 12x and  a 'key instant recall facts' (KIRFs).  Each half term, a KIRF will be focussed on.  Autumn 1's focus is multiplication and division facts to 12X.

Half Term Creative Homework Project

Every half term, we set a creative topic homework project linked to the current topic.  It's always a favourite time of the term, when we share these in the last week before we break up.

Please see flyer below, also stuck in diaries.

Year 5 Curriculum Overview for 2024 - 2025

SUMMER TERM 2

Welcome back to school Y5! We are very excited to start the term and can't wait to start all of the exciting things we have planned.  Our topic is called Arctic Adventures and has a science/geography focus. Each Thursday afternoon, you will be taught art by the tremendous Mrs Maker and PE by our talented sports coach. We will also have weekly Computing, Spanish and music lessons. In writing, our Talk for Writing unit will focus on writing a quest story called 'The Cobbler of Krakow'. Our shared reading book will be a range of non-fiction and 'Northern Lights' by Philip Pullman. Our main math's focus will be statistics, shape, position and direction.

Each week, we will upload a brief synopsis and some photos and videos.

Please see below for further documentation.

Week beginning Monday 28th April

Insulation Investigation

This week in science, Year 5 investigated which material was the best insulation for a hot drink. They tested a variety of materials with different properties and were fantastic scientists! 

Week beginning Monday 21st April

Brilliant Biomes!

This week, Year 5 have shown their creative flair by researching, planning and making their very own biomes. 

Arctic Explorer!

We started off our new topic with a very exciting visit from a real Arctic explorer.

Another day of fun!  Class 11 and 12 ventured into the sunshine to explore the geography of our area, collect some natural resources and then make shoebox biomes.  Each group researched their biome and wrote  postcards about it.

Week beginning Monday 31st March

Creative Homework

As usual, we have had lots of fantastic creative homework handed in!

Week beginning Monday 24th March

Visit to St. Leo's church

Year 5 had a great time visiting St. Leo's church this morning to learn about the Easter story. We learnt so much, thank you for having us! 

Week beginning Monday 17th March

Week beginning Monday 10th March

Sparta vs Athens

This afternoon, Year 5 learned about the famous Spartans and Athenians using secondary sources. After our research, we had a debate about which society they would have preferred to live in.

Week beginning Monday 3rd March

World Book Day

As part of World Book Day, Year 5 watched an interactive show with Michael Rosen. They heard a variety of stories, drew their own characters and had a great time! 

Week beginning Monday 24th February

We kicked off the start of Spring 2 with a design and technology food day.  The challenge was to design, make, photograph, evaluate and create an advertising poster for a healthy Greek pitta to be sold to busy shoppers in the city centre!  The children had a brilliant time!

Geography of Greece

This afternoon, Year 5 investigated the geography of Greece using atlases and ipads. They also researched a variety of questions they came up with about the country. 

GREAT Project

This week, Year 5 started the GREAT project by learning about what a healthy relationship is. 

Week Beginning Monday 10th February

DT Day

Year 5 finished the term with a day dedicated to creativity and DT. For this, they researched, designed, made and tested a wind powered car.

Safer Internet Day

This week, the children have been learning about keeping safe online. In particular, we have been looking at spotting the signs of scams. We looked at different scenarios and discussed what made the situations suspicious and what we should be aware of. 

Week beginning Monday 3rd February

Children's mental health week

For children's mental health week, we looked at how we can be resilient.

Friction

This afternoon, Year 5 got their fair test planners and Newton meters out to investigate friction. 

Week beginning Monday 27th January

Air Resistance Investigation

In today's science lesson, Year 5 came up with an investigation into what affects air resistance and had an exciting time carrying it out!

Week beginning Monday 20th January

Spanish

This week in Spanish, Year 5 were talking about what we liked and didn't like doing.

Week beginning Monday 13th January

Drama

This morning, Year 5 acted out the story of Lazy Jack, which we are basing our writing on.

Week beginning Monday 6th January

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We kicked off our topic today by designing and making windmills, which we tested on different areas of the school site.

Week beginning16th December

This term's Topic Quiz Champions - well done!

Week beginning Monday 9th December

Amigos

This afternoon, Year 5 met up with their amigos for the first time and had a lovely time. 

Week beginning Monday 2nd December

Marvellous Mapwork

This afternoon, Year 5 looked at time zones, longitude and latitude. To help with this, we got out the atlases.

Week beginning Monday 26th November

Today, we learned about the phases of the moon.  To help, we modelled the phases using a torch as the sun, us as the Earth and a football on a pole as the moon!

Drama

In literacy this week, we are looking at the features of newspaper reports. As part of this, we became reporters and performed some amazing drama. 

Week beginning 18.11.24

Shadow investigation

In science this week, we looked at how the Earth rotates to cause night and day. To prove this, we set up an investigation to observe how a shadow moves over a day.

Week beginning 11.11.24

Our solar system

This afternoon in science, Year 5 learnt about the planets and where they are in relation to the sun and each other. We then made a scale model of our solar system using toilet paper and a variety of balls.

Week beginning 4.11.24

We kicked off our new topic 'Is there life on Mars?' today by listening to and appreciating Gustav Holst's Mars, creating symmetrical aliens using the children's names and then building spacecraft, making full use of our Creative Habits  wheel.  Much fun was had! (and we still went swimming this morning too!)

Week Commencing 14th October

Creative Homework

Year 5 have had such an amazing selection of creative homework handed in! Have a look at it below!

Week Commencing 7th October

Superb Spanish!

This afternoon, Year 5 continued learning Spanish. We looked at how to ask for directions and reply. Listen to some of the conversations below. Bien Hecho!

Year 5 enjoyed comparing maps from today and from the 1890's, examining the differences and similarities of the Forest Recreation Ground, where Goose Fair is held.

Week Commencing 30th September

Goose Fair Trip

This week, it was Class 12's turn to visit the site of the Goose Fair and carry some fantastic fieldwork. A big thank you to our parent helpers. 

Week Commencing 23rd September

Well done to all of Class 11 and our parent helpers, who braved the cold wind on Friday while we were doing our geography fieldwork at the forest Recreation ground.

Week beginning Monday 16th September

A BIG thumbs up from Year 5 and their silent disco slot!  I wonder if you can guess what we are dancing to?!

Many apologies but until we can change the format of the videos, they are unable to be uploaded)

Week Commencing 9/9/24

Historical Sources

This afternoon, Year 5 looked at how the Goose Fair has changed over time by using a variety of historical sources.

WOW Week

We started our 'Nottingham Nights' topic with a BANG by doing some amazing artwork. We studied the famous painting of the Goose Fair by Arthur Spooner before creating our very own, more modern version.

Week Commencing 2/9/24

First week

In our first week of Year 5, we read the book 'You Can' and discussed all of the things we could be as well as how we could be them. We also looked at the Zones of regulation and came up with a toolbox of strategies to use when we are in each zone. It has been a lovely start to Year 5, well done everyone!