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 'Nothing Stopped Sophie' 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. We will then turn to look at the Book Holes by Louis Sachar creating our own explanation texts and narratives.
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
We begin our new term with a focus on P.S.H.E, where the children will be exploring their aspirations for the end of Year 5 and for their future. The children will be attending a careers fair in school, having the opportunity to speak to various people in a variety of different professions. These include GMP, a Solicitor, Entrepreneur and many more.
We will then turn to focus on Geography where we will be exploring the worlds imaginary lines and the climate . 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. In the second half of the Autumn term we will continue to focus on materials examining properties and changes.
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