WELCOME TO YEAR 5!

2025-26

Key dates for the year group (AUTUMN term 2025-26):

Tuesday 7th October 2025 - Stubbington parent meeting (5.30pm)

Tuesday 14th October 2025 - Parent / Teacher meetings (3.40-6.10pm)

Thursday 16th October 2025 - Parent / Teacher meetings (3.40-6.10pm)

Monday 10th November - Wednesday 12th November 2025 - Stubbington residential

Key dates for the year group (SPRING term 2025-26)

Wednesday 14th January - Friday 17th April - Swimming (Class 7/9: Wednesdays / Class 8: Fridays)

Monday 19th January am - QMC science trip (Class 8)

Thursday 22nd January am - QMC science trip (Class 7)

Thursday 22nd January pm - QMC science trip (Class 9)

Thursday 26th March - Portals to the past: Ancient Greek workshop 

Key dates for the year group (SUMMER term 2025-26)

Friday 1st May - Selborne river trip (Cl 7 / half of Cl8)

Friday 8th May - Selborne river trip (Cl 9 / half of Cl8)

Thursday 2nd July - Brighton Hill transition day

Welcome to Year 5

The teachers in Year 5 are Mr Barrow (Class 7), Mr Hartley (Class 8 and Year Leader) and Mrs Rose (Class 9).

We also have teaching assistants who will be working in the year group - Miss Evans / Mrs Aitken / Mrs Barker / Mrs Dees / Mrs Budd / Miss Farmer / Ms Fisher / Miss Ford

P.E.

Each week, the children will have two sessions of PE - one indoor session (Thursday) and one outdoor session (Tuesday). In this Spring term, the children will have one session of swimming a week which will take the place of their Thursday PE session. Children should come in to school wearing their PE kits on these days.  

Home Learning

During the week, we will set home learning tasks - these will be reading, maths and spellings. The reading will be on the Purple Mash website and will include five comprehension questions.  The maths homework will be linked to their times tables using the TT rockstars website. 

Home learning will all be set on a Thursday and then due back in on the following Tuesday. As we are trying to develop the independence of the children, it will be their responsibility to complete their work on time. 

Our Curriculum

Topics: Autumn 

English - Persuasive / Informative / Narrative writing 

Maths - Multiplying and dividing (by 10, 100, 1000) / Fractions (equivalence, +- , mixed numbers) / Time (converting) / Angles (types)

History - Benin Kingdom

Science - Fossils, geological time and classification

Art - Wire sculptures

Computing - Excel

RE - Prophesy

PSHE - Valuing differences

PE - Social / cognitive

French - All about ourselves

Topics: Spring

English - Balanced argument / Suspense writing / Information 

Maths - Angles / Fractions and Decimals / Percentages / Addition and Subtraction / Statistics

History - Ancient Greeks

Science - Forces / Earth and Space

Computing - Word / Scratch

RE - Belonging / Eucharist

PSHE - Keeping myself safe / Rights and Respect

PE - Swimming

French - That's tasty! / Family and Friends

DT - Structures / Food Technology

Topics: Summer

English - The Silver Swan (Narrative) / River pollution (Persuasive) / Medieval monarchs (Biography) / Cloudbusting (Poetry) 

Maths - Fractions / Multiplication / Division / Properties of numbers / Geometry

Science - Earth and Space / Animals including humas / RSE

Topic - Rivers (Geography) / Medieval monarchs (History)

Art - Rivers (Monet) / Portraits (Monarchs)

PE - Creative (RealPE) / Athletics / Golf / Health and fitness

Computing - iMovie / Scratch

RE - God / Umma

PSHE - Being my best / Growing and changing

French - School life / Time travelling

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