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Year 5 2025
Welcome to Year 5
Miss Peacock and Mrs Okon make up our Year 5 Team
Spring Term 2026
English
This half-term we will be using The Great Kapok Tree as the key text for our narrative work. We will focus on openers, relative clauses and parenthesis in our writing as well as re-capping on previously taught SPAG skills. For our non-fiction work, we will be focusing on instructions and writing survival guides.
We will continue to practise our VIPERS skills in reading sessions. We really appreciate the support that you have given to your children at home with their reading, just 5 or 10 minutes each day can make a real difference and help to improve their confidence and fluency.
Maths
In Maths we will be focusing on Multiplication and Division as well as Area and Scaling. We will also continue with our daily arithmetic sessions focusing on mental methods of calculation.
There will be a big push on times tables this half term; it is so important that the children are fluent in them in so that they are able to access the other areas of the Maths curriculum.
Geography
In our Geography sessions this half term we will be focusing on the Amazon Rainforest. Within this topic, we will develop our map skills and examine data to help us understand the human and physical features of the rainforest. We will also conduct some fieldwork with a visit to Hyde Park to study the plants and animals there.
Science:
In our Science lessons we will focus on ‘Earth and Space’. Within this topic we will concentrate on the solar system, the moon, why we have day and night as well as time. We will also be working scientifically throughout this topic which will involve planning and conducting fair tests.
Autumn term 2025
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 with decimal fractions. Within this unit we will explore tenths, hundredths and thousandths and we will also use column addition and subtraction. We will also look at money, where we will focus on pounds and pence as well as comparing amounts of money.
We will be doing a lot of work on times tables and it would be great if you could encourage your child to continue this at home. www.ttrockstars.com is a fantastic website for times table games and all the children have logins.
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.
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