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Year 5

Welcome to Year 5

This page contains useful information about starting in Year 5, including the curriculum focus for each term highlighted as 'golden nuggets'.

Staff Contact details
Mrs Claire Willerton (Year Group Lead) cwillerton@riverscofe.co.uk
Mrs Denise Hoare  dhoare@riverscofe.co.uk
Miss Elizabeth Addis eaddis@riverscofe.co.uk

Routines/equipment

  • PE lessons take place on

5CW 5EA 5DH

Monday (outdoor)

5CW 5EA

Wednesday (indoor)

5DH

Friday (indoor)

  • Devices need to be charged daily at home.
  • Spelling test every Friday.
  • Pencil case which includes: pencil, black handwriting pen, rubber, sharpener, red pen and highlighter
  • Named water bottle

Break/Lunchtimes

Morning break 11-11:15

Lunchtime 1-1:45 

Trips and special events

Children in Year 5 enjoy a variety of trips as well as workshops where visitors come to the school.

Trips this year include:

The Black Country Museum

The Hive library

Workshops and transition events:

First Aid- practical workshop

The Ancient Greeks- with Mr Cadle

Kepax bridge workshop

STEM based workshop with RGS

Diglis fish pass discussion and workshop

PSCO visit- democracy and responsibilities

 

Sporting events with local high schools include:

Cross country

Handball

Football

Indoor Athletics

Indoor rowing

Netball

Cricket

DanceFest

Reading 

In Year 5, your child will participate in Reading for Pleasure at least three times a week. We also timetable specific reading comprehension sessions where we focus on key skills such as: vocabulary, inference, prediction, retrieval, summarising.

We recommend that children in Year 5 read at home daily for at least 15 minutes. 

Clubs

Football

Netball

Drama

Upcycling

Young Voices

Art

Sketching

Band Practice 

Practical ways to support your child’s learning

As well as supporting your child with their daily reading, we encourage parents to support their child at home by:

  • Supporting your child with their weekly homework
  • Encouraging writing through journals, creative stories, or letters
  • Playing word games like Scrabble or Boggle to expand vocabulary
  • Using real-life maths, like measuring ingredients while cooking or calculating shopping costs
  • Practising spellings, times tables and mental maths with fun apps or flashcards
  • Playing maths-based board games like Monopoly or Sudoku

Homework

Homework is given out on a Friday and should be handed in by the following Wednesday. Homework will consist of Maths work and a more general piece of work based on their current unit of work.

At the beginning of each half-term, differentiated spellings will be handed out. They will be tested weekly on Fridays.

PE

Our allocated days for PE this year are:

5CW 5EA 5DH

Monday (outdoor)

5CW 5EA

Wednesday (indoor)

5DH

Friday (indoor)

Please ensure that your child arrives at school in the correct  PE kit on these days.

Swimming will take place every Monday in the autumn term.

Surgeries

All Year 5 class teachers have their surgery on Thursdays at 3:15-4:15pm

Curriculum overview

Autumn

Spring

Summer

English:

Wizard, the ugly and the book of shame- text study

Junk- Contemporary poetry

The Highwayman- Classical Poetry

English:

Why the Whales Came- text study

Writing to persuade & inform

English:

Street Child-text study

The Lady of Shallot- Classical poetry

Maths:

Number

Addition & Subtraction

Multiplication & Division

Fractions

Maths:

Multiplication & Division

Fractions

Decimals and Percentages

Perimeter & Area

Statistics

Maths:

Shape

Position & Direction

Decimals

Negative numbers

Converting units

Measurement & Volume

Foundation:

Science- Forces

 

Geography- North America

 

Computing:

Audio engineers

Real or fake?

 

History:

The Ancient Greeks

 

Art: Caricatures

Still Life

Wax Resist

 

Music:

Vocal Harvest repertoire

Vocal Christmas repertoire

 

DT:

CAM toys

 

 

PE:

Swimming & Invasion games

 

 

French:

Describe town

Weather

 

 

PSHE:

First Aid

Finance

 

RE:

What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain?

 

Incarnation

Foundation:

Science- Earth & Space

 

Geography-Energy & Climate change

 

Computing:

Selection in quizzes

Computer influencers

 

History:
The Mayan civilisation

 

Art: Sketching & Painting techniques

Clay sculpture

 

Music: Pulse, beat, rhythm

 

DT:Bridges

 

PE: Gymnastics

Dance

Striking & Fielding

 

French:

Describe rooms in the house

Mealtimes

Food

 

PSHE:

Communities & Responsibilities

Democracy

 

RE:

Judaism

What does it mean if God is holy & loving?

Foundation:

Science- Properties of changing materials

Living things & their environment.

 

Geography-Flooding

 

Computing:

Crab Maze

Visual storytelling

 

History:

The Industrial Revolution

 

Art: Botanical art

 

 

Music: Turntablism

 

DT: Biscuits

 

PE:Athletics

OAA

 

French:

Preparing for a trip to Paris

 

 

 

PSHE:

Puberty

 

RE:

What does Jesus do?

 

Why do some people believe in god and some do not?

 

Specialist lessons

  • Handball
  • Keep Fit
  • Orienteering
  • DanceFest
  • First Aid
  • Managing your Money 

Enrichment

Year 3 and 5 Summer Show ‘Little people, BIG voices!”