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 

2025-2026

Upcoming Events

Arithmetic workshop - 18th November 9.00

Arctic Explorer Workshop - 13th April

PE Uniform Days

Monday - Indoor PE (Class 11)

Thursday - Swimming (Class 12)

Friday - Outdoor PE (Class 11 and 12)

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 2025 - 2026

Autumn Term Spellings

AUTUMN 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 Life on Mars and has a science focus. Swimming will be every Thursday morning for Class 12 this term and each Wednesday afternoon you will be taught Art by our very talented Mrs Maker. We will also have weekly Computing, Spanish and music lessons. In writing, our unit will focus on an adventure story called 'Pandora'. Our shared reading book will be 'The Boy in the Tower' by Polly Ho-Yen. Our main maths focus will be multiplication.

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

Please see below for further documentation.

Week beginning 8th December

 

Amigos 

This afternoon, Year 5 visited their Amigos and had a great time!

 

 

Today we have enjoyed using 'Hot Seating' to help us generate ideas to use in our News Transcripts that we will be writing next week. Our work is based on our Shared Reading book 'The boy in the Tower' by Polly Ho - Yen.

 

Week beginning 1st  December

 

Year 5 News Report

For the start of our new writing unit, we investigated some strange occurrences around school. It seems that piles of rubble have been discovered in various places. As a result, we have decided to create a news report to inform everyone and uncover the source of this mysterious phenomenon—before the school falls down!

 

Space art with Mrs Maker

This afternoon, Year 5 continued with their amazing space art and have nearly finished their masterpieces.

 

Jigsaw

Today in Jigsaw, we explored the topic of bullying and discussed ways to support a friend who might be experiencing it. We wrapped up the session by turning our ideas into a creative game of Snakes and Ladders.

 

Week beginning 24th November

 

Luna Cycle

This afternoon, Year 5 continued their science topic by learning about the Luna Cycle.

Week beginning 17th November

 

Amigos

This afternoon, Year 5 met their Amigos for the first time and had a great time getting to know them!

Computing

In computing, the children enjoyed exploring different camera techniques and deciding which would be most appropriate for different shots.

 

Thank you for all who attended our Arithmetic Workshop, we enjoyed spending the morning with you. Please remember to keep using TTRS to help children with their times tables. 

 

 

Week beginning 10th November

 

Children in Need

Year 5 ended the week by taking part in Children in Need. As well as having some tasty cakes and raising money, we got active by doing some exciting circuit training! 

 

Fantastic Factors

In maths this week, we have been looking at multiplication. To help our understanding, we got some counters out to find out what square numbers are and why they are called 'square' numbers. 

Art with Mrs Maker

This afternoon, Year 5 continued their amazing art with Mrs Maker. After drawing our planets, we used watercolours, brushes, and sponges to add lots of fantastic patterns and colours to our paintings. We can’t wait to carry on next week!

Week beginning 3rd November

To start off our new 'Life on Mars' topic, Year 5 had a very creative day. We started by creating some alien art by using our name and listening to the very famous Gustav Holst's 'The Planets'. We then designed and created our very own spacecraft.

 

Visit to Leo's Church

On Wednesday we visited St Leo's Church as part of last half-term's topic on Christianity. The children were brilliantly behaved, listened carefully and worked well in groups.

Week beginning 22nd September

Local History

This morning, Year 5 created our very own tour of the local area. As well as sketching historical buildings in Old Basford like Basford House and St. Leos church, we also went outside to find out facts about them. 

Art in Religion

This afternoon, we looked at how Christianity is shown in a variety of artwork before creating our own design for a stained-glass window. 

Search Engines

This afternoon in computing, we looked at what a search engine is and how they work. We then got the laptops out and had a go at using a variety of different search engines to compare them. 

Week beginning 15th September

Sketch Maps

Today in geography, Year 5 looked at sketch maps. We then created our very own sketch maps of a fairground at our school. There were lots of very creative ideas!

Dreams and Goals

In Jigsaw this term, our topic is called 'Dreams and Goals'. In today's lesson we looked at jobs and careers along with why people may choose to do them. Included in this was an exciting game of charades based on different jobs.

Week beginning 8th September

History of the Goose Fair

As part of our local history topic, we learned about how the Goose Fair has changed over time by looking at a variety of historical sources, such as newspapers, videos, photographs and more. 

Week beginning 1st September

We have had a super start to the new school year in Year 5. We have been thinking about the school rules, our aspirations for this year and how we can achieve more when we work together as a team. We have also had our first Wow day of the year. We looked at Arthur Spooner's painting, 'The Goose Fair, Nottingham' and have researched different rides at Goose Fair. We went onto design our own fairground ride, thinking about the artistic skills of using different tones, patterns and colours. A great first week in Year 5, well done to all of the children.