Year 5

Welcome to Year 5.  In Year 5, we are valued as individuals. We try to rise to challenges, whether they be creative, mathematical, sporting or about us living out our school values. We learn to work both collaboratively and independently. Reading and a love of books and stories are at the heart of everything we do.

Staff In Year 5

Year 5 Class Teacher - Mrs Girling

Learning In Year 5

Click here to view the Year 5 Curriculum Map.

Click here to view the Year 5 Timetable.

Click here to view the Year 5 Topic Web for Autumn 1.

Click here to view the Year 5 Topic Web for Autumn 2.

Click here to view the Year 5 Topic Web for Spring 1.

Click here to view the Year 5 Topic Web for Spring 2.

Click here to view the Year 5 Topic Web for Summer 1.

Click here to view the Year 5 Topic Web for Summer 2.

Year 5 Class Blog

Autumn 1

Our class book this half term was Skellig, written by David Almond. We enjoyed reading it and looking out for the clues and connections about the characters. The main character is a boy named Michael, who finds a mysterious person in his garage. Owls are an important part of the story too – we researched and published fun and interesting non-fiction booklets about owls.

During Black History Month, we read a book of Caribbean and African folk tales, retold by Wendy Shearer. We learnt about the best hunter in Mali – a boy called Sirankomi. We acted the story out, which was really exciting and then made our own version of the story. Our illustrations were inspired by Faith Ringgold.

In history, we explored the Ancient Kingdom of Benin. We learnt about the story of the Oba’s palace being attacked by the British and lots of treasures being stolen. Many of the artefacts are still in the British Museum today. There is talk of some of the treasures being returned to modern day Nigeria. We looked at both sides of this argument and voted 16 – 9 for the artefacts, particularly the Benin Bronzes to be returned to Nigeria.

In P.E., we have netball with a really good coach. She organises fun games for us but makes sure that we make lots of progress with our netball skills too. We also enjoy fencing with a specialist coach. He teaches us lots of new things each week and develops our skills through playing games.

In art, we have been looking at different artists including Gustav Klimt, Van Gogh and Georgia O’ Keefe. We used the different styles as inspiration to create our own art work from photographs we had taken of the school grounds.

Parent Information

Welcome presentation from Mrs Girling

Year 5 Suggested Reading List

Year 5  PE And Sports Opportunities

In Year 5, our children have the opportunity to take part in weekly swimming lessons at Park Road swimming pool.

Being able to swim is a valuable life skill and something we encourage all our children to learn.  The aim of their weekly swimming lessons is to help children to be confident in and around water as well as learning and improving their swimming and water self rescue skills. 

Our Year 5 children have their first opportunity to learn a sport taught by a specialist external sports coach.  This gives them the chance to learn a new set of skills and practise and play together as a team.  

Mastering the fundamentals of a new sport and learning vital lessons in sportsmanship and teamwork, they also have opportunities to take part in local sports competitions allowing them to test their new skills.

This year, Year 5 are taking part in weekly netball coaching sessions and you can find out more information on that here.  .