Welcome to Year 5. Our class teacher is Sally Skinner who is assisted by Ashleigh Crowley.
Useful documents for Year 5
Year 5 Long Term Overview 2025-26
Welcome to Year 5! This term our topic is Fantastic Journeys.
Literacy
Our class text for literacy will be Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. This book is about a boy, who during a sailing trip around the world with his mum and dad, falls overboard and is stranded on a desert island. We will be looking at various writing genres including writing our own ‘what happens next’ chapter, an explanation and a persuasion to ask Kensuke to come home with us.
Children will bring home their reading books and planners in their book bag every night. We encourage them to be listened to reading at home during the week. Their book bags and planners should be returned to school each day as we use them in class throughout the week.
Maths
In school, we will be following the White Rose resources for maths. This term we will be focusing on multiplication and division, fractions, decimals and percentages and some statistics and shape work. Quick recall of times tables is an important skill and children have access to Times Tables Rockstars to practise at home. The leader board is posted on Facebook each week and children can earn money for their class bank if they get in the top 5.
Science
Our science topic will be Properties and Changes of Materials where we will look at sorting materials and investigating the properties of different materials. In the second half term, we will look at the lifecycle of a human in Animals Including Humans. We will also look at gestational periods and how this varies in different mammals.
History
In History, this half term, we will be looking at the Maya civilisation. We will look at what was happening in world history around the time of the Maya, what we can find out about the civilisation and what happened after they vanished.
French
In French, lessons we will be learning about the weather, learning new vocabulary and asking and answering questions about this. We will also be looking at different seasons and asking questions about what happens in different seasons. We have a French lesson once a week and spend an extra five minutes each day revising key concepts.
Every child- in Year 5- has a Duolingo account so they can practise at home either on the Duolingo app or on the Duolingo for school’s website. Let me know via Tapestry if your child has forgotten their login details and I can send them again.
DT
The children will be looking using Micro:bits to design and make a device to monitor the temperature in an enclosure for a chosen animal.
PSHE
Our topics in PSHE will be Keeping Safe, which will include online life as well as dangers that we might come across in everyday experiences. We will also look at Rights Respecting and differences between people. This will also include a small look at money management,
P.E.
P.E. is twice a week in Year 5 on a Wednesday and Thursday. On a Wednesday we will swim so children will need a suitable PE kit including a swimming costume or trunks, towel, goggles and warm coat. Children will need a P.E. kit for PE in school containing a t-shirt in their team colours, black shorts and shoes suitable for running and moving around. We will be trying to get outside for being as much as we can if the weather isn’t too bad. As the weather can be unpredictable in Consett, children may wish to add old, warm clothes such as tracksuit bottoms and a sweatshirt to their P.E. kit. P.E. shoes will need to be suitable for outdoor use too.
Computing
In Computing, we will be using programming devices to begin to use selection and control of conditions. WE will also be looking at databases, beginning with some hands off computing ordering information and moving onto how to use databases to answer questions.
R.E.
Our R.E. topic this term will look at What do Christian’s believe about God?
Music
This term, our music topic is composing and we will be doing this around Adele’s Make You Feel My Love. We will also look at improvisation and we will do this around the theme tune to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
How you can help your child:
We believe that any work you do at home with your child should be simple and purposeful. We would ask you to support you child in the following:
Reading- Reading regularly at home with your child and recording this in their reading record. You can help your child to understand what they have read by asking how and why questions about certain passages of text.
Number skills- Times tables are vital for upper key stage 2 so regularly practicing these via Times Table Rock Stars is important to consolidate skills. Any problems logging on, let us know and we can provide your child’s details.
Spellings- Spellings are sent home weekly via Tapestry on a Monday. These should be practised at home ready for a test on a Friday.
