Welcome to Year 5 2024-2025

Our learning theme for Spring 2 is: Beast Creator

In our Connected Curriculum, we will be gathering knowledge linked to the Big Question: 

How do living things avoid extinction?

 The Year Five Teachers and Learning Support Assistants are: 

5RD - Mrs Devine, Miss Parker and Miss Bradley

5MD - Miss Davies and Mrs Spence 

5HL - Mrs Hicks/Mrs Lynam, Miss Smith and Mrs Lamprell

Things to note:

Please remember to keep up your practice on Times Table Rockstars https://ttrockstars.com/ 

Spellings are tested and new words given out each Monday. 

Reading records are collected and checked each Friday. Please listen to your child read 3 x a week, children are encouraged to also read by themselves and these can we written into their records as well.

PE is on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Termly timetable overview

Please note this is predicted, and we go at the pace of the children's learning, which can sometimes mean we spend longer on certain objectives and so others are pushed along into following weeks. 

Spring 2

Maths - perimeter of rectangles, perimeter of rectilinear shapes, area of rectangles, area of compound shapes, statistics including line graphs and tables.
Writing - persuasive letters, setting descriptions, instructions plus a unit on explanations. 
Connected - Science including life cycles and reproduction. Detailed drawings in Art. 

Spellings - week beginning 10.2.25

Topic Overviews

Maths Support - Fractions

Equivalent Fractions

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Converting improper and mixed number fractions

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 Comparing and ordering fractions

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Adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator

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Adding and subtracting fraction by finding a common denominator

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Adding mixed number fractions

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Maths Support - formal written methods for the four operations - Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division

Below are the end of year expectations for all children in Year 5