St Oswald's CofE Academy "I can do all things through him who gives me strength"
Year 5 Class 2025/26
Welcome to Year 5!
Who's Who?
Mr Watkins – Class Teacher
Mrs Bishop - Teaching Assistant
Reading
Children should be reading regularly to an adult at home – a minimum of 3 times per week. Children are responsible for changing their own reading book at any suitable time throughout the week. Reading records are checked weekly and the number of times your child has read is noted down. Readers are rewarded with a reading certificate and a gold coin after every 30th log into their record. Research has shown that reading at home helps children to make progress at school.
Homework & Spellings
Children will be given spellings on Mondays. Children will be tested on Friday. It is recommended that spelling is practised for a short period daily. Children should also be practising on Timetable Rock Star to help with their fluency at tables. The program tailors the tables set for the child based on their individual needs. There will be extra homework pieces added in throughout the year to support learning.
PE
PE lessons will take place every Tuesday afternoon. Children should come to school wearing their full PE kit (navy/black joggers or shorts, house colour/white T-shirt, and dark jogging top or blue school jumper). If children arrive in the wrong (or no) PE kit, they may be asked to change into a spare school PE kit.
English
At the start of the summer term we will be looking at the book The Eye of the Wolf. We will be exploring the text and learning all about the journeys of both the Boy and the Wolf. As a class we will be writing a balanced argument on zoos and if they should remain open. In Summer 2, we will be reading The Adventure of Odysseus. This links to our Ancient Greece topic and the class will be rewriting some old myths.
Maths
This term we will be looking at Position and Movement and how best to describe changes in movement on graphs. Following on from Position and Movement, we will be working on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division work for decimals. Then, finally starting work on negative numbers towards the end of the term.
Science
For the Summer term we will be focusing on Living Habitats and Life Cycles. During this unit we will look into the stages of life cycles and how they can be different. In Summer 2, the class will be learning all about forces. The class will have a chance to explore and discover how forces work.
History
Our unit for the summer term is Ancient Greece. In this unit, the class will look into the lives of the Ancient Greeks. Discovering all about their daily lives and how each city and state was different. We will explore more of the world of Ancient Greeks in English through our Summer 2 book The Adventures of Oddyesus.
Online Maths Games
Please find a range of resources to support your child in maths.
Times Tables Rock Stars – Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)
Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)
Daily 10 - Mental Maths Challenge - Topmarks