Year 5
Key Information
Welcome to the Year 5 class page.
Class Teachers
5VP - Mrs Peach
5KH - Miss Hunter
Learning Facilitators
Miss Flynn
Mrs Wright (1:1 support)
PE days: Tuesday and Wednesday
Kit consists of black shorts or joggers and a white or black plain t shirt. If needed children can also wear their school, black hoody. These should be plain without logos.
This term, children will continue to take part in swimming until the end of the Summer term on a Wednesday, with each class alternating each half term. 5VP will resume swimming in Summer 1 and 2 for 5 weeks and then will change to 5KH for the remaining 5 weeks. Children require a swimming costume (no bikinis) or swimming trunks/shorts, goggles and swim cap if necessary, and a towel.
Home Learning
Maths homework will now be sent home in booklet form. Each week, the children will complete a ten minute task. Booklets will be sent home every Friday and should be back in school no later than the following Wednesday. Weekly spellings will be sent home on Monday via SeeSaw and children will be tested that Friday. Children can continue to practise their times tables on TTRockstars. There will be a weekly times table test.
Home Reading - Reading expectation is that children are heard read at home at least 3 times a week, and the reading diary to be dated and signed by an adult, stating which pages the child has read.
Book Club
This term our class text is 'The Secret of Haven Point'. It follows the lives of a group of children that live in a lighthouse and are friends with the mermaids, but there is danger lurking.
Summer 1 English - Non fiction text 'Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover'
Topics for the year
Summer 1 - Peaks and Flows
Get ready to explore some of the most amazing features of our planet—rivers and mountains! Children will learn about the key rivers and mountain ranges across the world, studying how they form, how they shape the landscape, and the role they play in different ecosystems. They will investigate the water cycle, discover how mountains are formed, and explore the importance of these natural features for human settlements, climate, and trade. Children will also use maps and digital tools to locate famous rivers like the Amazon and Nile, and mountain ranges like the Himalayas and the Rockies. By the end of the topic, children will be excited to see how rivers and mountains connect the world, shaping both the environment and the lives of people everywhere!