WELCOME TO YEAR 5!

Hello families! A warm welcome to the Year 5 area of the Sheringham website!

Below you'll find information on the curriculum for this term and your child's PE days. 

 What are Year 5 learning about in Summer term?

Writing 

In our writing lessons, Year 5 will be exploring the exciting world of Legends and Quests. Our young writers will learn how to create stories filled with brave heroes, magical settings, and daring adventures.

Throughout the term, the children will:

• Plan and write exciting storylines full of mystery and challenge.
• Create interesting characters, from heroes and villains to mythical creatures.
• Build imaginative settings, such as castles, forests, or faraway lands.
• Develop their use of description, dialogue, and suspense to make their stories engaging.
  
  

The writing process will include brainstorming ideas, planning adventures, drafting stories, and editing their work. By the end of term, the children will share their completed tales—packed with creativity, courage, and adventure—with classmates and families.

We can’t wait to see Year 5’s legendary stories come to life.

Maths

This term, Year 5 will continue to develop their understanding of place value within 1,000,000, ensuring they can read, write and work confidently with larger numbers. They will also begin to focus on addition and subtraction, applying their skills to a range of problems and real-life contexts. In the second half of the term, they will move onto applying their multiplication and division knowledge to solve a range of mathematical problems. They will be introduced to and use formal methods for long multiplication and short division, and learn about factors, multiples, prime, square, and cube numbers.

Daily practice of key number facts, such as times tables and number bonds, will continue to support their progress and build strong foundations for future learning. Daily practice on BBC bitesize, Mathletics and Times Tables Rock Stars will support this.

Reading 

In reading, Year 5 will be linking their reading and writing through the classic legend Beowulf. As they explore this famous story, the children will continue to develop their reading strategies, including predicting, retrieval, summarising, and inferring, to build a deeper understanding of the text. They will also use this inspiration in their own writing, creating stories filled with adventure and challenge. Later in the term, our focus will move to non-fiction texts connected to our recent Geography unit on South America. This will give the children the chance to read for information, practise research skills, and apply their knowledge to different styles of writing.

Science

Our Year 5 scientists will be focusing on Earth, Space and Forces this term. Through a series of practical experiments and investigations, the children will explore the concepts of force and gravity and how they are connected to the Earth and beyond.They will continue to develop their scientific skills by asking questions, making observations and drawing conclusions. To consolidate their learning, the class will also enjoy a trip to the Science Museum. Here, they will have the chance to explore the Wonderlab, taking part in exciting hands-on experiments, as well as visiting the space section to deepen their understanding of the universe.  This topic will spark curiosity and give children the opportunity to see science in action—both in the classroom and beyond.

Religious Education

This term our Year 5 children are investigating Beliefs about God. Children are encouraged to share their own views about God and listen to other’s views about God, including different religions and those without a religion. During discussions pupils will be able to explain the impact of people’s beliefs about the existence of God on their lives. We will be looking at how different religions show thankfulness through their actions and devotion to their faith. 

PE

The children will have two P.E lessons a week, one outdoor session and one indoor session .In P.E this term, Year 5 will be developing a wide range of skills through both outdoor and indoor P.E. lessons.

In outdoor P.E., pupils will begin the term by focusing on cricket and other striking and fielding games, learning key skills in teamwork, coordination and control. Later in the term, they will move on to basketball and invasion games, applying their understanding of attack and defence in competitive team situations.

In indoor P.E., children will start with fitness circuits, building their understanding of stamina, pace and endurance to improve cardiovascular fitness. In the second half of the term, they will develop racket skills through badminton and wall games, focusing on agility, precision and control. Through this varied programme, pupils will continue to grow in confidence, fitness and teamwork.

JIGSAW (PSHE)

Being me is the theme we will be exploring in our Jigsaw lessons this term. Children will take part in discussions that will focus on themselves as citizens in the world and their wider community. They will share ideas around rights and responsibilities they have.  We will also be looking at how their choices and behaviour can have an impact on themselves and others and how to make responsible choices. The children will be taught to recognise the signs of bullying and what they should do in this situation. 

During the second half of this term, we will be looking at celebrating differences. The lessons will be focused on fostering understanding and respect for diverse cultures, faiths, and individuals, teaching children how to handle cultural conflicts, challenge stereotypes, and make positive choices to create a welcoming and inclusive environment

DT (Cooking and Structures and Mechanisms)

In Design and Technology, our budding Year 5 chefs will be exploring the key components of a healthy meal and learning about the impact of nutrition on their daily lives.

This term, the children will:

• Learn about food safety and the importance of hygiene in the kitchen.
• Practise essential cooking skills, including chopping and frying.
• Taste a variety of flavours and experiment with choosing their own spices and vegetables.
• Work together to create a delicious Thai curry.

This hands-on project will give the children the opportunity to be creative, develop important life skills, and understand how to prepare food safely and healthily.

P.E Days

Please come to school wearing you P.E kit (jogging bottoms/leggings/white t-shirt, jumper and trainers) . Take note of the weather and make sure you dress appropriately for P.E.

5L P.E days- Monday (outdoor) and Tuesday (indoor)

5H- Monday (outdoor) and Thursday (indoor)

5M- Monday (outdoor) and Wednesday (indoor)

Helpful Links:

• Develop your maths skills through  Mathletics or Times Tables Rock Stars and fact fluency level you are on. If you have a 123 Maths log in, make sure you log on and practise key maths skills.
• Practise your spelling by clicking on year 5 and 6, choose the spelling rule, play free games and write sentences with spelling words.
• Log into your DuoLingo account for Spanish
• Computing - Touch typing / Create a new game on Scratch
• Don't forget there are also lots more fun activities on our subject pages!

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