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

Learning Showcase - 16th October 3.10

Arithmetic workshop - 11th November 9.00

Arctic Explorer Workshop - 13th April

PE Uniform Days

Monday - Swimming for Class 11 or Indoor PE for Class 12.

Wednesday - Outdoor PE.

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 1

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 Basford and Bulwell Bygones and has a local history focus. Swimming will be every Monday morning for Class 11 this term and each Wednesday afternoon you will be taught PE by our talented sports coach. We will also have weekly Computing, Spanish and music lessons. In writing, our unit will focus on a warning story called 'The Caravan'. Our shared reading book will be 'The Switch' by Anthony Horowitz. Our main maths 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 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.