Year 5

Welcome to the Year 5 page!

We are keen to share information about our topics and what we will be learning across the curriculum. Below are links to our current topic overview sheet and our curriculum overview for the term.

In year 5, there is a continued focus on the importance of reading regularly, both in school and at home, to improve children’s fluency, reading stamina and exposure to a wide range of sophisticated vocabulary.  Specific reading comprehension skills are taught in lessons throughout the year and will help children to improve their skills of retrieval, inference and build an understanding of an author’s intent.

It remains important for children to continue to practise their times tables in year 5 as having a rapid, accurate recall of multiplication facts is a fundamental skill required across the maths curriculum.

In addition to the different spelling rules taught in school, children in years 5 & 6 are expected to be able to spell words from the list below.  Again, these will be taught in school.

Home Learning

Children should read a minimum of 3 times a week and record this in their home school book by colouring the star with the corresponding date each time they read. Children have a home learning book, which they take home on a Friday and is due back in on the following Wednesday. Home learning will be a maths task, which will focus on increasing your child’s fluency and arithmetic skills. We also encourage all children to log on to TT Rockstars and LbQ as much as possible.

Maths:

Daily 10 – Mental Maths Challenge – Topmarks

Hit the Button – Quick fire maths practise

Time – KS2 Maths – BBC Bitesize

Match the Times – 5-11 year olds – Topmarks

 

Spelling:

Spelling – Year 5 KS2 English – BBC Bitesize

 

Lead Topic – History: Ancient Maya 

This half term, we will be studying the ancient Mayan civilisation between 2000BC – 1500AD. As historians, we will be thinking about the location of the Mayan world as well as the social custom, daily life and invasions that befell it. We will then use our knowledge to compare and contrast major events from the Mayan civilisation to those in Britain during the same time period. To help us make these judgements about the past, we will use a variety of sources and consider how and why these show bias. This will need careful consideration when deciding what impact European travellers had on the Mayans.

National Geographic: Ancient Maya

Maya Civilisation – KS2 History – BBC Bitesize

 

French:

KS2 French game – Learn French language vocabulary and grammar for primary school children – Dash and Blink – BBC Bitesize