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. Reading is rewarded with a reading certificate and gold coin after every 30th log in 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 spellings are practised for a short period daily. Children should also be practising on TimesTable Rockstar to help with their fluency of times 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.
Swimming
Children in Year 5 have Swimming on a Wednesday.
English
At the start of the Autumn term we will be looking at the book Arthur and the Golden Rope. We will be exploring the text and learning all about Arthur's journey to save his village. The work will conclude in the class writing a recount in the form of a letter from Arthur to Atrix. Our work on Arthur and the Golden Rope links into our history unit for the term The Vikings. Later on in the term we will be moving onto The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The class will work on writing detailed character descriptions and finally a guide to Narnia.
Maths
This term we will be looking at Place Value up to 1,000,000 and we partition and represent these numbers in a number of ways. Following on from place value we will be working on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division work. Then finally starting work on fractions towards the end of the term.
Science
For Autumn term we will be focusing on Earth and Space. During this unit we will look into what makes up our Solar System. Continuing into Autumn 2 we will look into why we experience night and day and the phases of the moon cycle.
History
Our unit for Autumn term is Raiders and Traders. In this unit the class will look into the Viking invasion of Britain. We will work together to find out why the Vikings attacked, Where the Vikings came from and how did the Viking age end.
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