Year 5
A warm welcome to our new year 5 cohort. We had a tremendous year 5 last year and we are hoping that this year will be even better!
This page will showcase the wonderful things that we do in year 5 so keep checking in to see for yourself😁👍🏻👍🏽
Curriculum Intent
We want our Year 5 children to be open minded, independent, respectful, resilient, active, creative and forward thinking.
Autumn Term | Spring Term | Summer Term | |
English | |||
Maths | Place Value Mental Addition and Subtraction Multiplication and Division: Written Methods | Multiplication and division | |
Science | Living Things and their Habitats | Animals Including Humans | Properties and Changes of Materials Living Things and Their Habitats |
Art | Frieda K | A Sense of Place | Chinese Art |
DT | We are Plant Protection Designers | We are Chinese Food Designers | We are CAD Textile Designers |
History | What Impact did the Anglo-Saxons have? | Why Should We Thank the Ancient Greeks? | Would the Vikings do anything for Money? |
Geography | Are We Damaging our World? | How is Our Country Changing? | How Will our World Look in the Future? |
PE | Dance Gymnastics Invasion Games | Swimming Netwall | GAMES STRIKING AND FIELDING Top Up Swimming |
Spanish | More body parts, Illness, Family members, 1 – 60 (all calculations) Clothes (uniform) + adjectival agreement 'Get dressed Robert' story Time - ¼ past and ¼ to 1 – 60 odds/evens, counting in 2s/5s/10s. Clothing linked to Christmas | The World Around Us | Revision |
Computing | We are Game Developers | We are Web Developers, Bloggers and Digital Architects | |
Music | Livin’ On a Prayer Christmas Songs | Make You Feel My Love | Reflect, Rewind & Replay |
RE | U2.6 What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain today? Muslims | U2.2 What would Jesus do? (Can we live by the values of Jesus in the 21st century?) Christians | U2.1 Why do some people think God exists? Christians, nonreligious (Humanists) U2.7 What matters most to Christians and Humanists? Christians and nonreligious (Humanists) |
PSHE | Being Me in My World Democracy, Rule of Law, Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect, Tolerance of those of diff. faiths & beliefs Celebrating Difference Democracy, Rule of Law, Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect, Tolerance of those of diff. faiths & beliefs | Dreams & Goals Democracy, Rule of Law, Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect, Tolerance of those of diff. faiths & beliefs Healthy Me Democracy, Rule of Law, Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect, Tolerance of those of diff. faiths & beliefs | Relationships Democracy, Rule of Law, Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect, Tolerance of those of diff. faiths & beliefs Changing Me Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect, Tolerance of those of diff. faiths & beliefs |
Autumn/Spring/Summer 1: Year 5 on Y3/4 Yard and Year 6 on 5/6 Yard
Autumn/Spring/Summer 2: Year 5 on 5/6 Yard and Year 6 on 3/4 Yard
Teachers from the year groups that are on 3 and 4 Yard take their children down first.
Teacher on duty sends the year group that is on 5 and 6 Yard back to class first.
Sanitiser will be available before and after break time.
Daily Structure
Y5/6 Quarter
8.45 entrance through car park gate, met by SMT/LSO, guided to stairs by LSO, hand gel applied, keep to left up stairs on way to class.
10.45 playtime:
Y5 on far yard first with either Y5 teacher or Y5 LSO
Y6 on near yard with either Y6 teacher or Y6 LSO
Y5 back first followed by Y6
Children hand gelled on way out and back
If possible, children keep to left on way back to class unless detrmined otherwise by supervising teacher
Same routine at lunchtime
Children get half hour out and half hour in having lunch
Y5 leave at 3.10
Y6 leave at 3.20
Children stay with adult until SMT let them leave unless they go home on their own.
Some of our Year 5 writing:
