Welcome to Year 5!  

We have two classes in Year 5:  

In 5B the children are taught by Miss Bath and in 5R the children are taught by Mr Robinson.  

We will be supported in our learning by our Learning Support Assistants who are: Mrs Scott and Miss H 

Autumn Term 2025

INFORMATION ABOUT THE CURRICULUM IN YEAR 5 

MATHS: 

This term will be working on the following areas (including a range of problem solving and reasoning activities).  

• Place value: reading, writing and comparing numbers up to 1,000,000 and working with Roman numerals.  

• Addition and Subtraction: working on a range of mental and written strategies to add and subtract numbers with more than four digits. Solving multi-step word problems and using the inverse operation.  

• Multiplication and division: Finding factors, multiples, prime numbers, square numbers and cube numbers. Multiplying and dividing whole and decimal numbers by 10, 100 and 1000.  

• Fractions: identifying unit and non-unit fractions, finding equivalent fractions and adding, subtracting and comparing fractions and mixed numbers.  

Children will continue to work on their Terrific Times Tables to help the quick recall of times tables. All children have their login details and can access TTRS from home. 
 

ENGLISH   

The first half of the Autumn term focus on writing to inform and persuade.  

The children will base their work on the treats facing our rivers.   

Later in the term, we will be writing to inform, using our history topic ‘Ancient Greece’ as a stimulus.  The children will base their work on the Ancient Greek Olympics, where children will report on the events taking place at the Olympics.  

Spelling patterns taught over the week will be incorporated into writing as will sentence structures which are provided as home learning tasks. 

READING 

During our Whole Class Reading sessions, we will be reading interesting extracts from challenging texts and applying our reading skills and strategies to infer, predict and retrieve information. 

At home, children should read for a minimum of 20 minutes at least 5 times a week.  

ART 

After studying collages produced by a range of artists, we will focus on ideas drawn from the work by Deborah Roberts. This will inform our own plans, designs and collages. We will create and arrange accurate patterns by precisely cutting, manipulating and combining a range of mixed media. 

GEOGRAPHY

Rivers: in this unit we will study the features of a river, the impact erosion has on a rivers journey, compare main rivers of the UK and the world. In addition we will complete some local studies of the River Chess, looking at its features and its significant.  

MUSIC

Over the course of the term, we will explore a range of songs and music techniques, including sea shanties, gospel music and song writing.  

HISTORY

This term our History topic will focus on the Ancient Greeks. During the topic we will identify the chronology of the Ancient Greeks, explore how artefacts can teach us about their way of life and find out about the differences between Athenians and Spartans (in particular, the lives of women originating from these places). We will also learn about some prominent Ancient Greek figures and the impact of these people during that time and beyond.   

STEM (Science) 

We will start the year looking at materials and their properties learning about changing states, separation and reversible changes and irreversible changes. 

During the second half term, we will be looking at Forces and completing lots of exciting experiments! We will begin by learning about the force of gravity. We will then identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces. We will also be looking at how mechanisms can alter the effects of forces.   

COMPUTING 

In our computing lessons this term we will have the opportunity to create short videos and develop our skills of capturing, editing, and manipulating video. Alongside this, we will be teaching the termly topic of E-Safety ensuring the children know how to keep safe online.  

DT 

This term we will be designing, creating and evaluating a new, usable item using recycled materials. The children will be developing their understanding of basic stitching, using this to join materials together.  

PSHE 

In PSHE this term we will be focusing on our ‘Healthy Lifestyles and Growing and Changing’ during this topic we will learning ways to support and nurture a healthy lifestyle for our physical and emotion well-being.  

We will also be finding out how to keep safe in both real and virtual environments.  

RE 

In RE we will be learning about Symbolism in different faiths. We will be looking at the symbolism of light and dark across Hinduism, Judaism and Christianity.  

FRENCH 

In French we will be learning key language to help us introduce ourselves and others, learning the numbers up to 100 and reading and writing the date / key dates in French. 

PE

5B – PE days are Monday and Tuesday.  

5R – PE days are Monday and Wednesday. 

Children should come into school on the PE days wearing their full kit and correct trainers.  All jewellery must be removed prior to the PE lesson. Children are responsible for removing their own earrings (preferably before school), if they are not able to do this, surgical tape must be provided, and the children will need to cover their own piercings. 

This term our PE units are: Orienteering, Tag Rugby, Football and Gymnastics.  

Swimming will take place on a Wednesday afternoon, with 5R starting first.  

HOMEWORK 

Homework will follow the whole school schedule which includes: My Maths, Spelling Shed (Edshed), Art of a Sentence, daily reading and multiplication practice.