Year 5
5B and 5N
Welcome to Year 5 – A New Adventure Begins!
We are so excited to bsupport e working with your children this year. Year 5 is an important step in their learning journey, full of exciting opportunities, challenges, and the chance to grow in independence and confidence.
5B: Mrs Bennett (Teacher), Mrs Holbert (Cover supervisor), Miss Doyle and Mr Coleman providing additional support.
5N: Mr Newton (Teacher), Miss Whiteley (Cover supervisor) ), with from Miss Blackburn.
Our dedicated team is here to ensure every child thrives, feels confident, and enjoys their learning this year.
Autumn 1
Our Learning This Half Term
English (Writing): Creating imaginative warning tales with Alien Landing as our inspiration.
Reading: Taking a deep dive into The Wild Robot – exploring characters, themes, and big ideas.
Maths: Securing understanding of numbers up to 1,000,000 and developing problem-solving skills.
Science: Investigating Force
History: Discovering the fascinating world of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings – how they lived, fought, and shaped Britain.
Computing: Programming with Scratch in our iProgramme unit – building coding confidence and creativity.
PE: Outdoor – Hockey to build teamwork and skills; Indoor – Team Building challenges to strengthen communication and resilience.
Class 5B- Monday (Indoor) and Friday (outdoor)
Class 5N - Wednesday (Indoor) and Friday (outdoor)
PSHE: Exploring Relationship
Autumn 2
Our Learning This Half Term
English (Writing): In our non-fiction unit, we have been writing sets of instructions on How to Invade an Anglo-Saxon Settlement and How to Become a Viking Warrior. We have also begun to write detailed character descriptions, using characters from our class novel Wonder to inspire us.
Reading: As mentioned, our novel this half-term is Wonder, a story about a boy who struggles to fit in because he was born to stand out.
Maths: Securing our understanding of addition and subtraction with ever larger numbers before moving on to multiplication and division methods and strategies. Finally, everybody's favourite - FRACTIONS!
Science: 3 - 2 - 1 - blast off! Our topic is space and we have learnt so much about our solar system but also our home - Planet Earth!
History: Discovering the fascinating world of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings – how they lived, fought, and shaped Britain.
Computing: In our iDraw unit we have been looking at graphical drawing using digital tools.
PE: Outdoor – Football to build our skills and tactical knowledge of invasion games; Indoor – Pilates to build our core strength and develop flexibility.
Class 5B- Monday (Indoor) and Friday (outdoor)
Class 5N - Wednesday (Indoor) and Friday (outdoor)
PSHE: We have been thinking about Keeping Safe, whether that be ourselves, our money or our possessions.
Spring 1
Our Learning This Half Term
Spring Term 1 – Learning Highlights:
English (Writing): In our non-fiction unit, we will write a description of a Viking warrior. In our narrative unit, we will write short stories describing a brutal Viking battle from a warrior’s perspective.
Reading: Our class novel this half-term is Viking Boy so we will take a closer look at the story of Gunnar’s vengeance.
Maths: We will continue to develop our understanding of fractions as well as develop our multiplication and division calculation skills, with a particular focus on using formal written methods.
Science: This half-term we will focus on the different properties and uses of materials as well as discover more about reversible and irreversible changes.
History: Our Viking unit will continue as we find out more about their homes, clothes, diet, jobs and beliefs when living in Britain.
Computing: In our iCyrpto unit we will learn about different methods of communication including semaphore and morse code.
PE: During outdoor PE lessons, we will focus upon the five Ds of dodgeball: dodge, duck, dip, dive and …er… dodge. For our indoor PE lessons, we will focus on and get creative with the different disciplines of gymnastics including: travelling, rolling, balancing, jumping and using equipment.
Class 5B- Monday (Indoor) and Friday (outdoor)
Class 5N - Wednesday (Indoor) and Friday (outdoor)
PSHE: We will be thinking about Keeping Safe, particularly when online, considering the validity of media and information we see across different platforms.
Spring 2
Our Learning This Half Term
