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 - Miss Hodgson
Teaching Assistant - Ms Lee
Learning In Year 5
Click here to view the Year 5 Curriculum Map.
Clien here to view Year 5 Spring Curriculum Map
Click here to view the Year 5 Spring Timetable.
Year 5 Class Blog
Autumn 2
It has been another jam-packed half term in Year 5, filled with lots of exciting new learning! A connecting theme across our learning this term has been the Ancient Greeks. It all began with our informative and engaging trip to the British Museum. Here we went to a seminar where we explored different Greek legends and myths, and were given some top tips as to how we can identify different heroes and gods on artefacts. This connected brilliantly to our key text in English, ‘The Adventures of Odysseus’. Inspired by this text, we have completed some fantastic pieces of writing, including our very own play scripts retelling the story of Odysseus and the Cyclops.
In art, we have been focusing on ceramics. We began by looking at variety of Ancient Greek pots, before moving on to exploring the works of different ceramicists, such as Clarice Cliff and Grayson Perry. In our lessons, we have created and evaluated our own wonderful designs inspired by these works. Additionally, in science we have been learning all about forces! We have been getting practical with our learning, exploring how to measure forces using Newton meters, how surface area impacts how quickly paper falls, and investigating the effects of air resistance on a parachute. Finally, in music we have been listening to and appraising a range of jazz songs and developing our skills of improvisation using a range of instruments.
Autumn 1
It has been a busy first half term in Year 5, filled with lots of exciting new learning. In English, we have been reading the book ‘Skellig’ by David Almond. The story centres around a boy named Michael who has recently moved home and has discovered a strange creature living in his garage. Also central to the story are owls and we spent time in class researching and writing about these amazing birds. We each worked hard to create our own information booklets about owls, which we are incredibly proud of.
In connection with our learning about the Kingdom in Benin in history, in art we crated our own Benin inspired masks. We took our time, designing and creating our own detailed mask designs. In PE, we have been very lucky to have a specialist coach come into school to teach us all about netball. We have been learning about some of the key skills of the sport, such as passing, attacking and intercepting. We are looking forward to further developing these skills next half term.
Finally, in music we have been exploring the musical genre of rock, with our learning being based around the song ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’. We have enjoyed exploring and comparing different rock songs and learning to play along to songs on the glockenspiels. We are looking forward to next half term and seeing what new learning this brings!
Parent Information
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 in the Summer term.
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. .
