Year 5
Year 5
Autumn 2, 2025!
Welcome back! We hope that you all had a restful half term and you are ready for lots of learning this half term in Year 5.
Start time – 8:40am Pick-up time- 3:15pm
If you have any questions, concerns or worries, please contact us at year5@cpa.dsat.education and we will do our best to respond as soon as we can.
Please ensure that your child brings a labelled water bottle to school each day as well as ensuring that all items of your child's uniform is clearly labelled too.
Click on the link below to access the powerpoint from our recent Meet the teacher meeting.
Year 5 Meet the teacher powerpoint
Maths Calculations Parents' Guidance
English Information- Year 5 and 6
We are continuing to deliver the program to all year groups at school called myHappymind. myHappymind is all based around helping children to understand how their brain works and to support them in developing positive skills and habits to be their very best selves!
Please click on the link below to access an overview of what the program entails.
myHappymind Parent Information
At the end of every myHappy mind session, we finish with our Let Your Light Shine prayer which you can find below.
Curriculum
Our Geography theme this half term is Our Local Area.
Our theme this half-term will focus on developing our geographical knowledge, skills and vocabulary. Throughout our study, we will focus on the children’s progress in map-reading skills. We will use grid referencing maps to identify features of our local area and plan journeys from one point to another. We will also use the terms “physical” and “human features” from previous units to investigate what our local area contains and how we could improve it by making changes.
Writing
Our writing this half term will be based on the book The Lost Happy Endings by Carol Ann Duffy.
What would happen if we lost the happy endings to stories - imagine the tears at bedtime! A fantastic and magical tale about what happens when, one night, a wicked witch steals the happy endings to bedtime stories. It is up to Jub, the keeper of the happy endings, to save the day and ensure sweet dreams everywhere in this lyrical story about storytelling.
In response to this compelling story, we will engage in a variety of writing opportunities, that will include using expanded noun phrases, describing settings, characters and atmosphere, integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action and using inverted commas and other punctuation to punctuate direct speech.
Reading
This half term, our class reader is Faery Tales by Carol Ann Duffy where Year 5 will disappear to faraway lands of wicked witches, evil monsters and brave heroines. These beautiful and haunting retellings of the Grimm classics Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and the Pied Piper, as well as other tales from around the world will make you think again about once upon a time . . .
As part of this unit we will be making predictions about the text from details stated and implied. We will explore the meaning of words and clarifying vocabulary in the text. We will ask and answer our own questions about the text, and make inferences from what we have read.
Maths
This half term we will be further developing our reasoning skills as well as developing our multiplication and division strategies, using long multiplication and division. We will also be exploring perimeter and area.
We will also be focusing on knowing and remembering our Key Instant Recall Facts (KIRFs) for Autumn 2. Please click on the links below for Year 5 Autumn KIRFs that will support your child securing their multiplication and division facts for to 12 x 12. The online games, DAILY TEN and Hit the Button, will also support your child with this.
If you have any questions about these areas of Maths please don’t hesitate to come and speak to us.
R.E.
In RE, we will focus on the Christian concept of Incarnation to explore the question "Was Jesus the Messiah? We will learn that -
- Jesus was Jewish.
- Christians believe Jesus is God in the flesh.
- They believe that his birth, life, death and resurrection were part of a longer plan by God to restore the relationship between humans and God.
- The Old Testament talks about a ‘rescuer’ or ‘anointed one’ — a messiah. Some texts talk about what this ‘messiah’ would be like.
- Christians believe that Jesus fulfilled these expectations, and that he is the Messiah. (Jewish people do not think Jesus is the Messiah.)
- Christians see Jesus as their Saviour.
Science - Properties and uses of materials
Our science theme this half term is Properties and uses of materials. In this module, we will:
● compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, [solubility,] transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets.
● give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic.
Design and Technology - Textiles - Stuffed toys
In our learning, we will design a Christmas stuffed toy by joining two pieces of fabric using a blanket stitch. We will also use appliqué or decorative stitching to decorate the front of our stuffed toy. Finally, we will identify what worked well and areas for improvement.
P.E. - Fitness
In PE, our focus is Fitness.
In our topic, we will explore and develop our strength, stamina, speed, co-ordination, balance and agility. We will use these skills in games and exercises.
Our PE day is Thursday. Please ensure that your child comes to school in the correct P.E kit and brings their school uniform to change into after their lesson. If your child wears earrings, these must be removed or provide tape to cover them. Ensure long hair is tied back away from the face.
P.S.H.E. - Living in the wider world and community
In our learning about living in the wider world and community, we will appreciate that everyone is at least a bit biased, so we have to be careful to balance our views and tolerate disagreement. We will identify common types of prejudice as well as recognise the protected characteristics in the Equality Act.
Computing – Online Safety and Spreadsheets
In our Online Safety computing lessons this half term, we will -
-Gain a greater understanding of the impact that sharing digital content can have.
- Review sources of support when using technology and children’s responsibility to one another in their online behaviour.
- Know how to maintain secure passwords.
- Understand the advantages, disadvantages, permissions and purposes of altering an image digitally and the reasons for this.
- Be aware of appropriate and inappropriate text, photographs and videos and the impact of sharing these online.
- Learn about how to reference sources in their work.
- Search the Internet with a consideration for the reliability of the results of sources to check validity and understand the impact of incorrect information.
- Ensure reliability through using different methods of communication.
In our Spreadsheets computing lessons this half term, we will learn how -
• To use formulae within a spreadsheet to convert measurements of length and distance.
• To use a spreadsheet to model a real-life problem.
• To use spreadsheet tools to investigate probability.
• To use the count tool to answer hypotheses about common letters in use.
French - La date (The date)
In this unit, we will learn to recognise and recall the 7 days of the week in French. We will learn to recognise and recall the 12 months of the year in French. As well as this, we will learn to recognise and recall numbers 1-31 in French. Finally we will learn how to ask and answer the questions ‘Quelle est la date aujourd’hui ?' (What is the date today?) in French and ‘C’est quand ton anniversaire ?' (When is your birthday?) in French.
Music
Our musical theme is Sing and play in different styles. Singing and playing in different styles with different grooves is part of being in a band or an ensemble. We learn about music from all around the world, too. In music, ‘tempo’ refers to the speed of the beat – or how fast or slow the music sounds. Sometimes tempos stay the same throughout a song, and sometimes they change. Singing and listening are at the heart of each lesson. Play, improvise and compose using a selection of these notes: C, D, E♭, E, F, F♯, G, A♭, A, B♭, B.
TTRockstars and Reflex– Every day 10 minutes
Adaptive and individualized, Reflex is the most effective system for mastering basic maths facts in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Full of games that children love, Reflex takes children at every level and helps them quickly gain maths fact automaticity and confidence.
Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) is a program designed to help children learn and memorise multiplication and division facts. It uses a gamified approach, incorporating a rock and roll theme to make practice fun and engaging. In order to get the best out of TTRS children should regularly play for short bursts of time over the week.
If you have misplaced your log in details or are having trouble accessing the websites, please email me to let us know.
READING – Every day 10 minutes
Please continue to enjoy your reading each day. Reading is fun and a great way to spend time together with your family, as well as developing our imaginations. Encourage your child to talk about what they have read and ask them a question or two about the book. This will help consolidate their comprehension work in school. Adults please remember to record what your child reads at home in their reading record. We will count all entries in the reading diaries weekly and award golden tickets to those who have read 20 times or more in a month.
Our book change day is Thursday.
Homework
Maths- Given out every Thursday to be handed in by the following Thursday.
If you have any questions, worries or concerns please contact me using the class email: year5@cpa.dsat.education
Thank you.
Mrs Milnes & Mrs Wilkinson