Welcome to Year 5!
We are looking forward to an exciting year of learning in Year 5, with a number of interesting topics and events. Parents who missed the “Welcome to Year 5” meetings can find a link to the slides below.
Indigo Class are taught by Ms Page and Amethyst Class are taught by Mr Brown. Both classes are assisted by Ms Davies and Ms Giddings. Both classes will also be covered at some point in the week by Ms Simpson and Mr Ecclestone (for music)
Year 5 should arrive at the main gates at 8.40 and be collected at 3.15. Year 5 children can walk home alone if they have written permission from their parents or carers.
The Play’s The Thing!!
Much of our English and art work this half term will be focused on preparing the children for our performances at The Junction on Monday 16th November as part of the Shakespeare for Schools Festival. Amethyst will be performing an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and Indigo will be performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream We will be joined on the night by another local school. We will begin by exploring the play and understanding what happens before beginning rehearsals in October.
The Box Office opens Wednesday 23rd September and has a limit of 2 tickets that can be purchased. Booking tickets will require a password that we will email to you nearer the time. We ask that you respect this ticket limit so that every child can have an adult watching their performance.
We will also be welcoming a member of the Shakespeare for Schools company into the school on Tuesday 6th October to work with both classes on acting techniques and to work on a scene of the teachers choice.
More details of what happens on the day of the performance will follow nearer the time.
In Maths we will be working on tenths, hundredths and thousandths using various representations, making links to our previous work on place value in Year 4. We shall use our new understanding of decimals to explore monetary calculations. We will also learn about negative numbers by thinking in number lines, including in real life contexts. In Science, we will be focusing on forces such as gravity and friction. For more detailed information about our curriculum this half term, please look at the curriculum descriptors below.
PE
Indigo and Amethyst’s P.E days are Wednesday afternnons (outdoor) and Thursdays mornings (indoor). Apologies for the alteration to our prrevious messages.
If your child does not have a PE kit or have inappropriate jewellery, they cannot partake in PE. Please contact Mr Brown or Ms Griffiths via the school office if you are having difficulties finding a PE kit.
If your child has earrings which cannot be taken out, they MUST come to school with tape.
Homework is set on Friday and due by Wednesday of the following week. To ensure children can remember these, children should practise spellings on SpellingFrame and Timestables on TTRockstars for short periods at least 3 times a week.5 Curriculum Descriptor Summer 2 2026.docx
General Information
Parents who missed the “Welcome to Year 5” meetings can find a link to the slides below.
Useful links and documents for parents
Y5 Curriculum Descriptor Aut1 26.docx
End of year expectations for Y5 in reading,writing,maths&science
Y5 Long Term Plan Overview 2026-27
Supporting children to read at home