Year 5 2025 - 2026

This year, Year 5 will be taught by Mrs Craven (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) and Mr Scott-Scarth (Thursday and Friday). The class will be supported by Miss Price.

You can keep up to date with our school and class updates on Facebook, the weekly newsletter and on here. We are always here to help and if you wish to speak to us then please either call the office and we will give you a call back, send a message via School Spider (website) or you can speak to us in person at hometime. 

Important Information:

Our School Golden Rules

• Be respectful
• Be ready
• Be safe

Snack

Children will continue to have access to the school kitchen at Break Time. They will have the opportunty to buy a range of snacks and drinks.

Children will be responsible for their own snack money. Please be mindful of this before sending children with large amounts of money which could be lost.  

PE

PE will be on Tuesday afternoons and the children will come to school wearing thier PE kits and trainers. 

Your child's PE kit should include: -

• Blue T-shirt (Can be purchased form the school office)
• Black shorts or plain black/dark jogging bottoms in winter
• Trainers (for outside PE)
• Black pumps (for indoor PE)
• School jumper or Cardigan in the colder month

Homework

Homework will go home on a Wednesday and be returned to us completed on the following Wednesday. Please encourage and help your child to complete and retrun their homework.  They will recieve dojo points for completing and returning it on time. 

Reading

Children are expected to read at home a minimum of 4 times a week so that they can achieve their reading certificates. This needs to be logged in their Reading Record which then needs to be brought into school to be checked. Children will recieve dojo points for bringing thier reading record in each day and for for each time that they read.

Dojo Points

Children will continue to receive dojos this year. They will receive positive and negative dojos. Your child will receive positive dojo's for positive behaviour, wearing correct uniform, being on time, attending school with their Reading Diary and by following the school rules.

However, your child may also receive negative dojo's for negative behaviour, being late and incorrect uniform. Each day their dojo's will be banked. Once their points reach 100 your child will have the choice to choose a prize.

If your child has 90% or over positive dojo's, they will have earned enrichment time. However,  if your child has 89% or less dojo's they will go to reflection time with Mrs Seager and Mrs Scott-Scarth. Reflection time is a quiet , thinking time where they can discuss their dojo's with an adult, discuss reasons for not achieving 90% and how they can achieve enrichment the following week..

School Uniform

Just a reminder to our parents, children should wear their full school uniform daily unless stated otherwise. School Uniform should include: -

• School Jumper or Cardigan
• White Shirt/polo shirt
• Tie (colour based on which house your child is in)
• Black/Grey Trousers or skirt
• School Dress
• ALL Black Shoes

Our Curriculum:

Spring 1

MATHS: Our maths units this half term are Mulitplication and Division,  Fractions and Decimals and Percentages. Aswell as our daily maths lesson, we also have a daily Total Recall session where we consolidate previously taught concepts.  . 

ENGLISH-  This term, we will begin by studying ' Arthur and the Golden Rope' by Joe Todd-Stanton which is a fictional story set in Viking times.The children will be focusing on describing characters and settings and mastering expanded noun phrases, relative clauses and linking paragrpahs using adverbials.  In the second half term we will study ' Darkest Dark' by Chris Hadfield who is a real life astronaut. This is a biographical text based on the life of Chris Hadfield. 

SCIENCE: Our first science topic this term is Animals and their Habitats and the children will learn about plant reproduction, the life cycles of different animals and animal adaptations. After half term our topic with be 'Space'. 

HISTORY: This term our History topic is Anglo Saxons and Vikings. The children will learn about the invaders that settled in Britain after the Romans, their kingdoms, daily life, beliefs, famous figures like Alfred the Great, Viking raids and settlements, thier conflicts and how their struggles shaped Britain. 

COMPUTING

In Spring 1 the children will be learning about Programming and Spring 2 they will learn about Data and Information.  

JIGSAW

In Jigsaw, our first topic is' Dreams and Goals' followed by Healthy Me. 

D&T 

Our topic this half term is 'Making Toys'. The children wil learn about toys with moving mechanisms and cam mechanisms. They will investigate different designs and then create thier own design and make and evaluate their own toys. 

Remember to check out our weekly class news on School Spider published every Monday, to find out what we will be learning about each week in school. This will be sent via text and email  through the School Spider messaging system.