Welcome to Year 5

Overview

In Year 5 there are three classes. We start the morning with a ‘Daily Mile’ to get the children warmed up and ready for learning. The pupils’ timetable is structured for the morning into spellings, maths, following White Rose planning; and English, which is based on fiction and non-fiction texts linked to our topic themes. Reading Master lessons are based around a variety of genres where we encourage children to explore vocabulary, use inference, make predictions, explain, develop retrieval skills and summarise events. The wider curriculum subjects are taught through a whole school creative and connective approach.

To see more of the learning and activities we do in Year 5, see our Year 5 blog below.

Useful Resources

Below are some information sheets for parents and carers outlining English and maths expectations for each year group.

Downloads

Year 5 Blog Posts

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Year 5 Maths Investigation

Year 5 completed the whole school maths investigation today. They explored how different many ways they were able to make a symmetrical Incan necklace, using 9 beads of only 2 colours.
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Year 5 Maths

Year 5 have enjoyed learning about perimeter and area. They even got to go outside to explore the skill!
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Year 5 Art

Year 5 have designed and created their own Greek pots out of clay this term. Today, they were able to paint their intricate designs on and begin to evaluate their work.
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Year 5 go outdoors!

Year 5 went to the outdoor classroom today as part of their seed dispersal learning. They enjoyed searching and finding different types of seeds and predicting how they may have been dispersed.
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Year 5 Science

Year 5 completed a British Science Week investigation today. They explored 'does toast always land butter-side down?' They learnt about probability and Murphy's law and made predicitions. It was lots of fun and some children even challenged themselves to see whether the type of bread made a difference!
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Year 2 and 5 Buddy Reading

This afternoon Year 2 and Year 5 met with their buddies to share picture books and celebrate Read Aloud Day. They had a great time listening to each other read!
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Year 5 Author Visit

As part of world book week, Year 5 were lucky enough to have a visit from author Vanessa Taylor. They explored her book 'Baller Boys' and created a peaceful protest to help save their football grounds. It was also great to have a surprise visit from Marley the mascot!
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Year 5 Maths

Year 5 have been exploring fractions and decimals. Today, they looked at thousandths as decimals and showed fantastic grit and determination. They successfully used place value counters to help them and we are proud of their progress.
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Year 5 writing

Year 5 have produced some fantastic biographies all about Katherine Johnson. They focused hard on using relative clauses, fronted adverbials and parenthesis. We are proud of their progress and of their grit and determination when using cursive handwriting.
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Year 5 Science

Year 5 explored why we get day and night today. They thought about the key words axis, rotate, facing and anti-clockwise.