Welcome to Year 5
Here you will find useful information about our curriculum, PE Days, home learning, termly updates and useful links.
Values
Our school values are: Ready, Respectful, Safe and Kind resulting in
Excellence Every Day.
Our Federation is united by these four key values that all children are encouraged to live by every day. These principles shape how our pupils learn, behave and interact, creating a positive and supportive environment for everyone.
Learning
Children experience a broad and balanced curriculum that is designed to inspire curiosity, develop knowledge and skills, and support every child to achieve their full potential across a wide range of subjects.
Our Personal Development Learning (PDL) curriculum underpins everything we do. We explicitly teach children the executive functioning skills they need to become confident, independent, resilient learners who are well prepared for school and life beyond the classroom.
Memory Power helps children develop strategies to remember, retain and retrieve their learning. Improvement Every Time encourages children to embrace challenge, learn from feedback and strive to improve. Focus and Finish develops concentration, perseverance and the determination to see tasks through to completion. Change and Adapt teaches children to be flexible and resilient when faced with new situations or challenges. Manage Your Brain helps children understand and regulate their emotions, thoughts and behaviours. Pause, Think, Choose encourages thoughtful decision-making, self-control and making positive choices in everyday situations.
Meet the team
Beach Class – Miss Smart
Crescent Class – Miss Edmunds
Heath Class – Mr Camm
A typical day in Year 5
Doors open at 8:40
8:50 – Registration
8:55 - 10:45 – Morning sessions
10:45-11:00 – Break time
11:00-12:30 – Morning sessions
12:30-1:20 – Lunch time
1.20 –Afternoon sessions
3:20 – Home time
Our PE days are:
Beach Class – Monday and Tuesday
Crescent Class – Monday and Tuesday
Heath Class – Monday and Tuesday
Pupils may come into school wearing their PE kit. Please make sure you wear appropriate PE kit for the weather on your school PE days.
You may wish to bring a spare set into school in case this gets wet or muddy.
Reading Bookshelf
Here is our Reading Bookcase, which shows the key texts we will read across the curriculum in Year 5:
Home Learning
Your child will be using the Spelling Shed app for weekly spelling games. Please talk to your teachers if you need help with this.
Times Tables
They should continue to learn and practise their times tables at home as they will be frequently tested at school to ensure their progress. Tables are key to success in mathematics in both year 5 and 6.
The children love Times Tables Rockstars so please log on to https://ttrockstars.com/
Reading
They should also be reading at home for 20 minutes each day for 5 days. Please record your child’s reading on Boom Reader! How many points will you win for the reading arcade?
SPaG
Children will receive one SPaG based task per week to compliment the learning they have completed in school during the week.
Arithmetic
Children will receive one arithmetic based task per week to compliment the learning they have completed in school during the week.
Homework will be sent home on a Friday and will be due in the following Friday.
Curriculum Maps
Here you will find our half-termly curriculum maps, which provide an overview of the learning taking place each half term.
If you would like to find out more about how we teach across our schools, please explore our curriculum pages.
Autumn 1
Our curriculum map for the first half term can be found here: Curriculum Map
Autumn 2
Our curriculum map for the second half term can be found here: Curriculum Map
Termly Updates
Autumn Term Updates
During this half term, we have learned lots of new skills especially in English and maths. We have learned some new SPaG terminology and are now more confident in identifying the clauses which are used to make simple, compound and complex sentences. We have also worked hard to improve our knowledge of word classes and are able to spot nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs within pieces of writing.
In English, we have produced some fantastic fact files about Steve Irwin. We learned about him through reading the book, "Boys Who Dare to Be Different." Most of us were fascinated to learn that he spent most of his days wrestling with crocodiles.
Our focus in maths has been on place value; we have been introduced to decimal numbers and have gained key foundational knowledge in how to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000. During this unit, we have learned how to draw and label place value charts which has enabled us to be highly successful with this new learning.
In the afternoons, we have enjoyed our foundation subjects such as art. We have learned all about perspective drawing and managed to produce our own versions of a street scene. The skills that we learned and the steps that we followed ensured that our drawings look like they are 3D. Some key words that we learned are: vanishing point, horizon line, foreground and background.
Important Information
Here you will find presentations, important dates and curriculum links specific to Year 5. We hope these resources help you stay informed and support your child's learning throughout the year.
welcome to year 5 powerpoint 26 27.pdf