Year 5
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Welcome to Year Five
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EXTRA PE DATES FOR YEAR 5 - children can come to school wearing their PE kits.
Monday 13th April
Monday 22nd June
Important Dates:
Friday 27th March - Year 5 Easter Service and break up for Easter
Monday 30th March - Friday 10th April - Easter Break (Two Weeks)
Monday 13th April - Return to school from Easter AND Year 5 extra PE - Basketball (children can come to school wearing their PE kits)
Monday 4th May – Bank Holiday
Monday 18th May – Inset (School is closed for all pupils)
Thursday 21st May – Values assembly
Monday 25th - Friday 29th May - Half Term (One Week)
Monday 1st June - Return to school
Monday 8th June – Phase 5/6 sports day
Friday 26th June – Summer fare 2:30-4
Wednesday 17th June 2026 – Year 5 Foundation subject parent workshop (details to follow)
If you were unable to attend our 'Meet the Teacher' session, please click on the link below to access the presentation used.
A reminder that Year 5 have PE every Thursday- please ensure your child comes to school in the correct PE kit and footwear. If you are unsure on the PE uniform, it can be found on the tab 'Uniform'.
If your child walks home alone or brings a mobile phone to school, please ensure the forms have been completed and sent to school via Arbor.
English
During our English lessons throughout the Summer Term, Year Five will be focusing on diary writing, using first person and past tense as well as emotive language. Following on from this we will be completing a narrative writing using a video stimulus before finally writing a non-chronological report based on our history unit The Tudors.
Throughout all lessons, we will continue to reinforce and develop the use of writing structure, accurate punctuation and grammar alongside a focus upon the Year 5/6 statutory spelling list (which can be found in the documents).
Reading
During the Summer term, Year Five will study the texts 'The house with chicken legs' by Sophie Anderson and ‘Who let the gods out’ by Maz Evans. Throughout both texts, we will focus upon the core reading skills of vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval and summary...
The children will also take home their own reading book from school based upon their ZPD level. We encourage the children to read every day, whether this be independently or through shared experiences, across a range of text types to support their confidence, fluency and exposure to vocabulary.
Maths
As a school, we follow the Power Maths scheme and the units we cover are outlined in our curriculum overview. These units support the children in developing problem solving and reasoning skills as well as the ability to explain and justify their answers using manipulatives where necessary. In addition to this, we complete a daily 5 in 5 (five questions to test the retrieval of mathematical learning) and TTRockstars to help build confidence, fluency and accuracy within the subject.
In the summer term the focus is: properties of shape, position and direction, decimals, negative numbers and converting measurements including volume.
Curriculum
During the Summer term, the children will study a variety of interesting units in our wider curriculum which are outlined in our curriculum overview.
Art - The children will be creating self portraits in the style of Hans Holbein, the famous portrait artist from the Tudor times.
History - We will study the Tudors; more specifically how religion changed during the reign of Henry VIII and its impact on Britain today.
Geography - The children will be learning about the Black Country, answering the question 'How did the Black Country get its name and what is its significance?' including a trip to the Black Country Living Museum.
Design and Technology - We will be studying food seasonality and healthy plates before designing and creating their own muffins.
PSHE - Physical health and mental well-being - the importance of sleep, sun safety, puberty, basic first aid and managing risks.
