Year 5 2025
Welcome to Year 5
Miss Smith and Mrs Okon make up our Year 5 Team
Autumn term 2026
English
This half term we will be looking at the book 'Magnificent Thing' as part of our aspirations work. We will then move on to 'Sky song' by Abi Elphinstone for our narrative work as well as looking at non-chronological reports. We will be building our bank of descriptive and vocabulary and learning how to use different sentence types.
Maths
We will be starting the half term looking at multiples of 1,000, negative numbers as well as calculating using knowledge of structures and part-part-whole relationships. We will then turn to look at calculating with decimal fractions as well as looking at factors, multiples and primes.
Theme
Our challenge question this half term is what are the differences between the Arctic and Antarctica. Within our topic we will be enriching our geographical skills learning about zones of the earth. We will then turn to look at trade and how it developed in Georgian society.
Science:
In our Science lessons this half term we will be looking at Materials with a focus on mixtures and separation.
Useful Websites:
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/
www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/0/
www.topmarks.co.uk
www.ttrockstars.com
www.spag.com
www.readtheory.org
www.spellingframe.co.uk
www.mathsframe.co.uk