Year 5

Welcome to Year 5!

Meet the Staff

Year 5F Teacher: Mr Fitzpatrick
Year 5H teacher: Miss Hoolighan
Teaching Assistants: Miss Courtney , Miss Ormrod, Miss Cantello   

What You Need to Know

Y5H Class Leaflet

Y5F Class Leaflet

Homework will be given on Fridays to reflect the week’s learning. Homework will often cover Numeracy, Literacy, and a list of spellings in preparation for the Grand Spell each Friday.

Children are also expected to read and practise their times tables every night.

Please send your child in their PE kit on Tuesdays and Fridays for PE lessons. PE kit is a plain white t-shirt with dark trainers or pumps, and blue or black shorts. Plain black or blue tracksuit bottoms may be worn in the winter.

Please also provide your child with a hooded coat so they can stay warm during playtime.

To find out more about the Year 5 curriculum, subjects, and spellings, please download the links below.

Year 5 Spring 2 Overview 

Year 5 Spring 1 Grand Spell

Please have a read of the document below and pick up some tips about how you can help your child with their reading.

Reading advice for parents.

What We Are Learning About - Spring 1  

In  Maths, we will be kicking off the term by looking fractions. We will be revising what a fraction is, looking at key vocabulary how to recognise unit and non-unit fractions. Once the children are secure with this, we will then move onto equivalent fractions and using factors and multiples to calculate equivalents. Progressing through the half term we will begin to add fractions with different denominators, improper fractions and mixed numbers. Key to all of this learning is a sound understanding of times tables, can we please ask that you continue to work with your child at home to cement this knowledge. We will continue our half termly timestable check in school and frequently revise these skills. As always, the children will build upon their varied fluency skills and then move onto reasoning and problem solving style questions  

In English, we will be looking back on key events in history and looking at some influential people. We will read the book  " Hidden Figures" in which the children will learn about the women who were the brains behind the space race and overcame many obstacles to achieve some truly great things. We will learn about and discuss some social issues such as racism and sexism. The children will then write a memoir in from the point of view of Katherine Johnson, one of the famous women who helped calculate the trajectory that put man on the moon.

In Science, our topic is “Lets Get Moving.” Children will  be able to explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object, identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces and recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.

In History, we will be learning about the fierce Norse invaders, the Vikings. The children will learn about the Vikings, and consider the reasons why they raided and then settled in Britain. They will investigate the popular view of the Vikings as raiders, ruthless in their ways of obtaining wealth. They will study primary sources of evidence, such as accounts by monks of the raid on Lindisfarne, as well as archaeological finds, to understand why this interpretation of the Vikings has become so popular

In Religion, we will be studying the theme on “Belonging”.  We will look deeper in to idea of “Charity” and look at some of the causes from around the world that Catholic Charities fundraise for.