Year 5 2024 - 2025

Welcome to the Year 5 class page! 

The teachers of Year 5 are Miss Culver and Mr Mallon. Mr Wall is the teaching asssistant. 

On this page you will find information about current topics, news and  updates regarding special events and  during the Autumn Term. 

Homework is used to consolidate and reinforce skills and understanding.

Pupils will all have been given a home reading record and reading book. Please make sure these are brought into school every day. By Year 5, we expect children to be reading at home at least five times a week and fill in their reading record to reflect this. They are allowed to fill in their own reading record, however, where possible you should be listening to your child read throughout the week.  

Other homework will be set electronically for pupils on Monday using Google Classroom. If pupils do not have access to an electronic device at home, please let your teacher know so that paper-based work can be sent home. The website below is the Google Classroom support link which will help pupils to log into their Google Classroom accounts if you are experiencing any problems.

https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/?hl=en#topic=10298088

Pupils have been given their login details to access our school learning apps at home. They can use Lexia and the MyOn e-library to revise their reading skills, while Mathletics and Time Table Rockstars can be used to practise their mathematical skills and times tables.

Below is a table of the suggested amount of homework children should be completing each week. We hope that doing homework little and often can become part of your routine at home. Please get in touch with your teacher if your child doesn’t know how to log in to any of your accounts.

PE is on a Tuesday and children are expected to come into school this day wearing appropriate PE clothing (e.g. white t-shirt, shorts and trainers). This term we will be focussing on football skills.

This half term we will be learning about: 

Writing:  Our writing will be inspired by a short film,” One Small Step,” by Tacko Studios. We will be focussing on developing interesting sentences using a variety of grammatical features such as adjectives, alliteration and  modal verbs.

Reading: We will be reading an extract from ‘Varjak Paw’ by SF Said   paying close attention to understanding character traits and using inference skills to gain an understanding of main characters in the text. Children must practise reading at home using their home reading books and reading records must be signed weekly. 

Maths: Our topics for Maths this term are Number and Place Value : Numbers to 1,000 000, Calculations: Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division, Word Problems and Statistics: Graphs.

 Please see the links below to help support your child with their maths learning. They should also access Mathletics as part of their homework to support their development in maths. It is extremely important that the children are confident and fluent with all times tables and continue to access Times Table Rock Stars to support their recall. 

Number and Place Value:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/place-value

Addition and Subtraction: https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/resource/year-5-add-more-than-4-digits-maths-challenge

Multiplication and Division:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwbtrmn

Word Problems:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z34qxg8#zb976rd

Statistics:

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/maths/primary-statistics/statistics-year-5-age-9-10/

Geography: Changes in UK physical & Human environment including looking at our local area.

Science: This term we will be learning about Properties and Changes of Materials.

Art: We will be studying the artist Leonardo Di Vinci who is famous for many great works of Art including the Mona Lisa. The children will study his work and then create a drawing of the human nose using tone, scaling and perspective.

Music: Year 5 will continue taking part in an African drumming workshop every Thursday with our specialist percussion teacher. 

Religion & Worldviews: We will be learning about Sikhism and answering the enquiry question, 'How far would a Sikh go for his/her religion?'

PSHE: We begin our PSHE unit ‘Me and my relationships ' and 'Rights and Responsibilities'.

Spanish: This term children are learning language around the theme of The Date and also revising gender and nouns.

Computing: The children are learning about Online safety.

If you need to contact us about anything, or have any questions, you can contact your class teacher using the email addresses below.

5C@ashburymeadow.manchester.sch.uk

5S@ashburymeadow.manchester.sch.uk

Thanks,

Miss Culver and Miss Sellers