Year 5 2024 - 2025

Welcome to the Year 5 class page! 

The teachers of Year 5 are Miss Culver and Miss Wakefield. Mr Wall is the teaching assistant. 

On this page you will find information about current topics, news and updates regarding special events and during the Summer 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 this half-term is based on the expedition of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his team, who dared to enter the race to the South Pole. Unfortunately, the team were not the first to reach the South Pole, however Captain Scott kept a diary during his expedition. We will be looking at Scott’s diary and writing our own version of his dangerous and risk-filled adventure, using a range of grammatical features such as similes, personification and fronted adverbials.

Reading: We will be reading Macbeth by Adam Matthews and Strangeworlds Travel Agency by LD Lapinski. We will be 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: We are currently focussing on geometry in maths but we will then move onto position and movement, measurements and area and perimeter.

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. 

Geometry:

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

https://www.uptonjunior.com/attachments/download.asp?file=8265&type=pdf

https://www.olivehackney.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Geometry-Test-1.pdf

Position and movement:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvtdp9q

Measurements:

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

https://bovingdonacademy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Thursday-Maths-Activity-Measurement-1.pdf

https://www.ncetm.org.uk/classroom-resources/cp-year-5-unit-1-decimal-fractions/

Area and perimeter:

 https://dhoon.sch.im/site/uploads/pages/85/_media/20210321_560938b1/Calculating_Perimeter_Problems.pdf

Links to re-cap previous maths topics:

Fractions:

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

Decimals:

https://www.ncetm.org.uk/classroom-resources/cp-year-5-unit-1-decimal-fractions/

Percentages:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zy68h4j

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/

Science: This half-term we will be looking at living things and their habitats.

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, 'What is the best way for a Sikh to show commitment to God?'

PSHE: We begin our PSHE unit 'Growing and changing’.

Spanish: This term children are learning language around the theme of pets.

Computing: The children are learning about databases.

History: We are learning about Journeys. By the end of the topic we will be able to explain a number of reasons people undertake journeys and describe positive and negative impacts of said journeys.

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

5W@ashburymeadow.manchester.sch.uk

Thanks,

Miss Culver and Miss Wakefield