Year 5
Welcome back Year Five!
Spring Term 2025
We hope you have all had a lovely and restful Christmas and New year. We have a really busy second half of the year with lots of learning to take place. The Autumn term went so quickly and the children worked hard and gained lots of new knowledge.
When we return after the half-term break our topic will be “Many Worlds One Planet”. Within this Geography topic Year 5 will focus on Antarctica. This has always been a very popular topic with the previous Year 5 children enjoying finding out about this extreme environment and the fearless and curious explorers and scientists who have made the dangerous journey far south to explore this fascinating and mysterious continent.
English Writing and Reading lessons will also be linked to our topics. We will finish reading the excellent novel The Queen’s Fool by Ally Sherrick. We will also be starting the Michael Morpurgo novel “Kensuke’s Kingdom”. We will be basing our writing on our Antarctica topic and later on, this novel.
Spelling will be taught in short daily sessions working on the key Year 5 spelling objectives as well as first revising key areas from previous years.
Maths will follow the Year Five curriculum as well as extra arithmetic sessions where methods are taught and revised separately with regular assessment. A big focus for Year 5 this term is fractions where will be learning how to multiply with fractions. The children will move onto the long multiplication method for multiplying up to a 4-digit number by a 2-digit number as well as learning the short division method.
Science and ICT will be taught as separate weekly lessons. Art will be taught on Mondays by Mrs Matsutani which will be paining and self-portraits. Design and Technology will be taught in the second half-term and will be a Computer Aided Design topic using the Micro:Bits to design an environmental monitor to keep pets safe.
Our PE day is Tuesday so send your child to school in full PE kit including trainers on Tuesdays.
Homework
There is an expectation that children will read at home daily either with an adult or independently. We thank you for all your support with this last term. Reading logs are to be completed daily and handed in every Monday.
Spelling homework will be sent home every Monday as a list of spellings to be tested in school on Friday. Please ask if you wish to know how your child has got on with these tests. There will also be a half-termly test of common exception words which we are constantly learning in class.
All children have their login details for TT Rockstars. They should continue to improve their rapid recall of multiplication facts using this. We will be awarding prizes for those who we can see are interacting with TT Rockstars as fast recall of multiplication facts is integral for all the maths work we will be doing this term.
Please ensure children come to school each day with a water bottle so they keep hydrated. They are welcome to refill this throughout the day.
We will, as always, work our hardest to ensure that the children have a happy, productive and successful Year 5 which we are sure they will.
Please come to speak to Mrs Bailey or Mrs Matsutani if you have any queries or concerns or you can email any queries to schooloffice@sacredheart.peterborough.sch.uk. These can then be forwarded to us and we can reply/ make a phone call if needed.
Thank you for your support,
Mrs Bailey, Mrs Matsutani, Mrs Cunnington and Mrs Sullivan
