Year 5 2026 - 2027

Welcome to Year 5

Welcome to Year 5.  We hope you had a lovely summer break. We are so excited to begin this year and are ready for lots of fun. Have a read below to find out more about what we will be learning and discovering this term.

Religious Education

Our first To Know You More Clearly topic this term is Creation and Covenant- Covenant, Commandments, and Virtues. In this branch, pupils will study about Moses and learn about his significance of his life. They will learn about Moses mission to free the Hebrews, exploring the meaning of covenant and receiving the ten commandments.

The second branch for this term is Prophecy and Promise - David, Kingship and Christ's Fulfilment, in which pupils will learn about David’s calling and how he was chosen by God. They will learn about David’s legacy, Christ the King and how Christians prepare during Advent.

English

In Autumn we will be reading Cogheart by Peter Bunzel. Our English work will be based upon this exciting adventurous tale. Later in the autumn term, we will be exploring a version of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. We will continue to develop our understanding of spelling rules and build on our knowledge of how grammar can impact our sentence structure. Over the term, we will use a range of different texts to develop our reading skills and use as inspiration for our writing.

Maths

This term we will be exploring place value including decimal numbers, addition & subtraction of 4 and 5 digit numbers. We will continue to strengthen our multiplication and division knowledge. The children will investigate ethe properties of numbers including factors, prime numbers and composite numbers.  We will explore the perimeter of shapes and convert different measures. 

Science

In science we will be exploring the properties of a range of materials. We will investigate waterproofness, solubility, conductivity and effective thermal insulators in some exciting experiments. We’ll observe what happens when materials change – are they reversible?

Geography

During this term, we will be going out into our local environment to conduct some fieldwork. We will be creating our own maps and using appropriate ordinance survey symbols. We will also compare our local area with a contrasting rural area.

History

As part of our History work, we will be exploring Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots. We will learn about what happened to Britain when the Roman Empire left and how various peoples invaded and settled in our country.

You, Me, Everyone

We will be covering a variety of topics including making difficult decisions, accepting everybody and how to support our mental health and wellbeing.

P.E.

As part of our PE lessons this term, The ‘fair share dare’ unit aims to develop the social skills of cooperation and collaboration along with the bravery and curiosity to try new things. These are important aspects of whole-child development in PE.

The unit aims to develop a strong team ethic within the class and set firm expectations around how children work together in PE. This strong collaborative foundation is needed in order to successfully explore challenge and competition in PE.

The ‘evade invade capture’ unit has an important focus upon pupil's movement skills. Pupils consider how they can use evading and invading skills to find space, retrieve objects and score points.

The learning in this unit builds on fundamentals in KS1 and LKS2 and will prepare them for other units which focus on attacking and defending and invasion games.

For the first half-term, your child needs to come to school in full P.E. kit on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Computing

We will be learning about computer systems and how to search the web effectively. 

Art

In Art we will be learning how to design clothes inspired by famous fashion designers. We will develop our drawing techniques to draw realistic body shapes and experiment with drawing different fabrics and textures. 

D.T.

In D.T. we will be designing, making and evaluating the making of our own torch. We will use a range of tools to create our torch and apply our understanding of electrical circuits to create a working torch.

Spanish

We will continue to develop our understanding Spanish phonetics and develop our pronunciation skills. We will build on our knowledge of numbers, days and months as we learn how to say the date in Spanish. We will extend our vocabulary as we explore the unit ‘At the Café.’

Music

We are very excited to be continuing our Djembe Drumming lessons this term. We are building on our skills from last year to create our own compositions.

Homework

• Children will bring a reading book home every Thursday and this needs to be returned by Tuesday of the following week.
• Children will take spellings home every Thursday and they need to return their spelling books back to with their reading books.
• The children worked extremely hard on their times-table facts last year. Please encourage them to continue using Times Tables Roack Stars regularly.
• You are able to keep a track of the children’s Maths progress through Maths.co.uk.
• Encourage the children to read for pleasure throughout the week. The children can bring ‘Reading for Pleasure Books’ home from school to enjoy at home.

Things to Remember

• Please ensure all items, but especially coats, jumpers and lunchboxes, are clearly labelled with your child’s name.
• Please can you ensure your child brings a waterproof coat each day to school - one can be left on their peg if you prefer.
• Children need to bring their water bottle in every day. These need to be clearly labelled with your child’s name.
• School is not currently selling any snacks at break time. Please consider sending your child in with a healthy

We look forward to working with you all this term. Please contact any member of the Year 5 team if you require any further information. If you need to speak to us on the yard after school, we ask that you kindly wait until we have seen all the children safely to their parent or carer. After this, we will be more than happy to chat. Alternatively, you may wish to contact the school office via phone or email.

Thank you for your support.

The Year 5 Team