Class Teachers: Mr Parsons and Mrs Cotterill (Wednesday)

Support Staff: Mrs Nurton and Miss Lewis

Schools Direct Teacher: Miss Stocker

Year 5 Topics

Year Five will start this academic year studying the 'Early Islamic Civilization' topic in which we will use art, drama and playscripts to bring the era to life. This will be followed by our 'Invaders and Settlers' topic studying their impact on Britain which includes a Residential trip to Hooke Court. We will finish the year with our ‘Globe Trotters’ topic studying countries in South America.

English: We will be exploring information and explanation texts, poetry, diary entries, newspaper articles and fantasy adventure stories. The children will also learn about relative clauses, fronted adverbials with commas, pronouns, possessive pronouns, parenthesis and adverbs.

Maths: We will be looking at place value, the four number operations, statistics, area and perimeter, fractions, decimals and percentages, properties of shape, position and direction, converting units and volume.

For a more detailed overview, please see the curriculum overview at the bottom of this class page.

Homework

Alternating Maths and English homework will be sent home every week on a Monday and then marked the following Monday. Please remind your child to bring in their Homework book every Monday so new English or Maths sheets can be stuck in!

In addition to this set homework, each week your child should read aloud most days and their reading record books signed. 

Class Routines

PE will take place on a Tuesday PM (Indoor PE) and Friday PM (Outdoor PE). Children should come into school in their PE kit on these days. No earrings or watches are allowed. Children need to have a blue PE shirt, blue shorts and/or jogging bottoms, a warm jacket, trainers and socks.

Useful websites

Writing Inspiration

Spelling Help

Times Tables Help

Reading List Year 5

Useful Information