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 Term 1 – Learning Highlights:

 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 Forces – exploring pushes, pulls, gravity, and friction through hands-on experiments.

 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 Relationships – understanding ourselves, our friendships, and how to work well with others

 

Autumn Term 2 – Learning Highlights:

 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.