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

Tuesday 17th September - Maths Workshop - 9 - 10

Monday 30th September - Trip to Goose Fair (Class 11)

Tuesday 1st October - Trip to Goose Fair (Class 12)

PE Uniform Days

Swimming - Monday

Outdoor 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

AUTUMN TERM 

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 Nottingham Nights and has a history focus. Each Friday 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 two Talk for Writing units will focus on writing a warning story. Our shared reading book will be 'The Switch'. Our main math's focus will be place value.

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

Please see below for further documentation.

Week Commencing 9/9/24

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!