Year 5
Year 5
Autumn 1, 2025!
Welcome back! We hope that you all had a great summer and you are ready for lots of learning and fun this half term in Year 5.
Start time – 8:40am Pick-up time- 3:15pm
If you have any questions, concerns or worries, please contact us at year5@cpa.dsat.education and we will do our best to respond as soon as we can.
Please ensure that your child brings a labelled water bottle to school each day as well as ensuring that all items of your child's uniform is clearly labelled too.
Click on the link below to access the powerpoint from our recent Meet the teacher meeting.
Year 5 Meet the teacher powerpoint
Maths Calculations Parents' Guidance
English Information- Year 5 and 6
We are continuing to deliver the program to all year groups at school called myHappymind. myHappymind is all based around helping children to understand how their brain works and to support them in developing positive skills and habits to be their very best selves!
Please click on the link below to access an overview of what the program entails.
myHappymind Parent Information
At the end of every myHappy mind session, we finish with our Let Your Light Shine prayer which you can find below.
Curriculum
Our History theme this half term is Did the Victorians have an effect on our life today?
Our theme this half-term will focus on developing our historical knowledge, skills and vocabulary. Throughout our study, we will learn about the Industrial Revolution and its impact on society. As well as this, We will find out about what it was like to live in a workhouse as well as recognising the important work of Florence Nightingale and how it changed nursing forever.
Writing
Our writing this half term will be based on the book Queen of the Falls by Chris Van Allsburg.
Annie Taylor, a short, plump and fussy sixty-two year old widow, runs a charm school, right by Niagara Falls. When this starts to fail, she resolves to find fame and fortune by being the first person ever to go over the thundering waters of Niagara Falls in a barrel.
In response to this inspiring story of bravery, we will engage in a variety of writing opportunities, that will include using adjectival phrases, using adverbs and fronted adverbials, using rhetorical questions to engage the reader, consistent use of the 1st person and writing in consistent tense including progressive and perfect forms. We will be a series of diaries about significant events in Annie Edson Taylor’s life.
Reading
This half term, reading will focused on Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo.
As part of this unit we will be making predictions about the text from details stated and implied. We will explore the meaning of words and clarifying vocabulary in the text. We will ask and answer our own questions about the text, and make inferences from what we have read.
Maths
This half term we will be further developing our reasoning skills using large numbers as well as securing our addition and subtraction strategies. We will also be learning about line graphs and tables to interpret data.
We will also be focusing on knowing and remembering our Key Instant Recall Facts (KIRFs) for Autumn 1. Please click on the links below for Year 5 Autumn KIRFs that will support your child calculating with addition and subtraction of decimals. The online games, DAILY TEN and Hit the Button, will also support your child with this.
If you have any questions about these areas of Maths please don’t hesitate to come and speak to us.
R.E.
In RE, we will focus on the theme Prayer and Worship to explore the question "What is the best way for a Hindu to show commitment to God?" We will discuss many ways in how Christians can show their commitment to God and if there is a best way.
Science - Forces and mechanisms
Our science theme this half term is Forces and mechanisms. In this module, we will:
● 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
● recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.
Art and Design - Drawing: Perspective
In our learning, we will build on previous units on tone, shade, hatching, cross hatching, a knowledge of light and shade and contour drawing to produce a “true” image - perspective.
P.E. - Gymnastics and Rugby
In PE, our focus is Gymnastics and Rugby.
In our Gymnastics unit, we will develop balancing, rolling, jumping and inverted movements. We will explore partner relationships such as canon and synchronisation and matching and mirroring. As a whole, we will develop
performance skills considering the quality and control of their actions.
In our Rugby unit, we will develop our understanding of the attacking and defending principles of
invasion games. We will do this by maintaining possession and moving the ball towards the try line to score.
We will also develop our understanding of the importance of fair play and honesty while self-managing games and
learning and abiding by key rules, as well as evaluating our own and others’ performances
Our PE day is Thursday. Please ensure that your child comes to school in the correct P.E kit and brings their school uniform to change into after their lesson. If your child wears earrings, these must be removed or provide tape to cover them. Ensure long hair is tied back away from the face.
P.S.H.E. - Family/ Health and Wellbeing
In our learning about relationships and family, we will identify the positive features that should be present in a family as well as discuss how to disagree with respect.
Whilst further developing our knowledge about health and well being, we will identify how to make informed decisions about health and recognise that mental health, just like physical health, is part of daily life and that it is important to take care of our mental health.
Computing –
In our Coding computing lessons this half term, we will learn how -
To begin to simplify code.
• To create a playable game.
• To understand what a simulation is.
• To program a simulation using 2Code.
• To know what decomposition and abstraction are in computer science.
• To a take a real-life situation, decompose it and think about the level of abstraction.
To understand how to use friction in code.
To begin to understand what a function is and how functions work in code.
• To understand what the different variables types are and how they are used differently.
• To understand how to create a string.
• To understand what concatenation is and how it works.
French - As-tu un animal ? (Do You Have a Pet?)
In this unit, we will be able to present both orally and in written form about the pets we have and/or do not have in French. We will move from 1st person singular to 3rd person singular verb usage so we are able to say what the pet is called and use conjunctions more confidently.
Music
Our musical theme is Melody and harmony in music. A melody (or a tune) is a group of notes played one after another. In music, 'melody' contrasts with 'harmony'. Harmony means notes which are played at the same time, like chords. Composers often think of a melody and then add harmony to it. Explore the voices that sing the melodies and the instruments used within the music in this unit to create the harmonies. Can you hear the difference?
TTRockstars– Every day 10 minutes
Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) is a program designed to help children learn and memorise multiplication and division facts. It uses a gamified approach, incorporating a rock and roll theme to make practice fun and engaging. In order to get the best out of TTRS children should regularly play for short bursts of time over the week.
If you have misplaced your log in details or are having trouble accessing the website, please email me to let us know.
READING – Every day 10 minutes
Please continue to enjoy your reading each day. Reading is fun and a great way to spend time together with your family, as well as developing our imaginations. Encourage your child to talk about what they have read and ask them a question or two about the book. This will help consolidate their comprehension work in school. Adults please remember to record what your child reads at home in their reading record. We will count all entries in the reading diaries weekly and award golden tickets to those who have read 20 times or more in a month.
Our book change day is Thursday.
Homework
Maths- Given out every Thursday to be handed in by the following Thursday.
If you have any questions, worries or concerns please contact me using the class email: year5@cpa.dsat.education
Thank you.
Mrs Milnes & Mrs Wilkinson