Welcome to Year 5

Our PE Days are:

• Monday (Indoor)
• Wednesdays (Outdoor)

On these days, your child may come to school in their PE kit: plain white  T shirt, black shorts or joggers and plain black trainers. A plain black hooded jacket may also be worn.

Jewellery is not permitted for safety.

Keep active: try a 5 minute workout with Joe Wicks.

Week beginning 31.03.25

English

We will be writing a character description based on a character from ‘Brave’.

Maths

This week will be focusing on fractions. We will be multiplying fractions unit and non-unit fractions by a whole number, as well multiplying mixed numbers by a whole number.

Geography

This week in Geography, we will be learning about the impact of rivers flooding.

RE

This week in RE, we will be learning about foods eaten at Easter and Palm Crosses.

Science

We will be learning about pulleys, levers and gears.

Week beginning 24.03.25

Assessment Week

Children will be carrying out Reading, Maths and SPAG assessments.

Geography

This week in Geography, we will be learning about the River Nile and why it is important.

RE

This week in RE, we will be learning about the Easter story.

Week beginning 17.03.25

English

We will continue our unaided writing sequence for ‘One Small Step’, writing and then editing our own version of the story.

Maths

This week will be focusing on fractions. We will be multiplying fractions unit and non-unit fractions by a whole number, as well multiplying mixed numbers by a whole number.

Geography

This week in Geography, we will be drawing a graph recording the length of the world rivers.

RE

This week in RE, we will be learning about God’s covenant with Moses.

Science

We will be investigating how the texture of a surface affects the amount of friction.

Music

We will continue looking at melodies and harmonies in music and learning to sing the song ‘Ghost Parade’ alongside playing instruments.

Week beginning 10.03.25

English

We will begin our unaided writing sequence for ‘One Small Step’. We will analyse a teacher model, plan our plot points and success criteria and begin to plan our paragraphs.

Maths

This week will be focusing on area. We will be finding the area of rectangles and compound shapes, and also estimating area.

Geography

This week in Geography, we will writing a fact file on the main rivers on the world.

RE

This week in RE, we will be discussing why and how people pray and will be writing our own prayers.

Science

We will be investigating how the surface area of an object affects its water resistance.

Music

We will continue looking at melodies and harmonies in music and learning to sing the song ‘Ghost Parade’.

In Year 5, Children will be given Maths, Reading comprehension, Spelling and TT Rockstars homework.

Children will be set the homework on a Friday which must be returned by Wednesday the following week. If children do not complete the homework, then they will be supported by an adult with this at breaktime.

Alongside the maths and reading comprehension homework, children will also be expected to access TT Rockstars 3x a week for a minimum of 10 mins.

Children who are on the reading scheme are also required to read to an adult 5x a week with an adult signature acknowledging this in the reading record.

Children who are free readers are required to read 3x a week with an adult signature acknowledging this in the reading record.

Weekly Homework:

To be handed in by Wednesday 2nd April.

Comprehension- Pages 8 and 9

Maths- Page 8

To be handed in by Wednesday 26th March.

Comprehension- Pages 6 and 7

Maths-  Children will be given a sheet on area of compound shapes

Spellings: Orange words 1

To be handed in by Wednesday 19th March.

Comprehension- Pages 4 and 5

Maths-  Pages 58 and 59

Spellings: Unit 10 Spellings

To be handed in by Wednesday 12th March.

Comprehension- Pages 2 and 3

Maths- Times Table Challenge. Start a timer and complete the challenge. Write down how long it took you.

Spellings: Orange words 9

To be handed in by Wednesday 5th March.

Comprehension- Pages 30 and 31

Maths- Pages 56 and 57

Spellings: Unit 9 spellings

To be handed in by Wednesday 26th February.

Comprehension- Pages 28 and 29

Maths- Page 25

Spellings: Orange words 8

Spelling lists consist of Read Write Inc spellings and Orange words.

Read Write Inc spellings follow a scheme, looking at spelling rules, patterns, prefixes, suffixes etc, and we aim to complete 1 unit every fortnight. Every 2 weeks, the children will receive a new spelling list with their Read Write Inc spellings.

Orange words are the words from the National Curriculum Y5/6 spelling list. On the weeks in between, we will send out a list of Orange words for the children to practise. They will practise their spellings during registration slots as well as a few short focused lessons throughout the week. There will be a spelling test every week alternating between Read Write Inc and Orange word spellings.

Here are this half term’s spelling lists:

We will soon be recruiting our School Council members. Check back here for an update soon.

• 5AW:
• 5KT/VSS:
• 5ZK:

This is a very prestigious award presented every 2 weeks to a child in each class who has impressed their teachers with their academic work, effort, engagement or demonstrated one or more of our core values.

W/b 26.02.25, our certificates have been awarded to:

• 5AW: Selena
• 5KT/VSS: Ella-R0se
• 5ZK: Alfie
  

Well done. We are incredibly proud of you.

This is also a very prestigious award presented every 2 weeks to a child in each class who ALWAYS does the right thing and makes the right choices relating to for example: behaviour, manners, showing kindness and compassion, working hard, trying their best and even ensuring they always arrive on time ready to learn. Children chosen for this award are role models in our school and an example to all.

W/b 12.03.25, our certificates have been awarded to:

• 5AW: Amina
• 5KT/VSS: DJ
• 5ZK: Daisy
  

Well done. Wear your Always badge with pride.

We use Times Table Rock Stars  to support their rapid recall of these. All children have a login and are encouraged to use it as often as they can.

Here is the link to the website:

https://ttrockstars.com/

We love reading in Year 5.

Every child has a reading book and a book they have chosen from our fabulous library every Friday afternoon.

We have a ‘Drop it and read’ session every week where all the children (and teachers) stop working and read a book for 10 minutes.

In addition, each child has a login to Reading Plus set at their own level which targets individual reading need to maximise progress.

https://student.readingplus.com/seereader/api/sec/login