Welcome to Year 5 2025-26 

Our Teacher in Year 5 is Mrs Cook

and our Teaching Assistant is Mrs Westmore.
 

Key Information

PE - Tuesday and Friday

Spellings - These will be sent home on a Thursday for a spelling check the following Thursday. All children have a spelling homework task each week. This should be handed in on a Wednesday. Please note there is a tear off slip attached to spelling homework sheet-this can be removed and kept at home.

Reading Book/Records - Please ensure that these are signed weekly and in school everyday. Children should complete three comments per week. Reading books will be changed on Mondays.

Times Tables - Please ensure that these continue to be rehearsed regularly.

Summer Term 

It is the summer term already!   Year 5 have so much to look forward to! In Geography, we will be starting a new unit for our Year group. We will be learning all about Brazil, comparing it to England and finding out about the flora and fauna of the rainforest. In Science, we will be separating materials. This will involve lots of hands-on tasks including sieving, evaporating and dissolving. Landscape textiles are the focus of our D. T lessons. Mrs Cooper is our sewing expert; the children produce brilliant landscapes from a variety of materials.  I can't wait to see the impressive work that the children create this year! In English, we will be reading Romeo and Juliet and making comparisons to some of the other texts we have read this year. Also, we will read The Boy in the Girls' Bathroom – will Mrs Cook make it to the end of the book without crying this year? We shall see... In Maths, we shall be recapping some of our written methods, including addition and subtraction of larger numbers. New concepts such as calculating volume and writing dates in Roman Numerals will also keep our brains busy! We are very fortunate this term to have a new/old language to learn! The staff at Wellington Prep will be visiting each week to teach us Latin! How exciting! This is often a highlight of our year, and we find out so much about the etymology of some of our English words too. As you can see, there is more than plenty to keep us all busy, and we have exciting days such as Sports day and Languages day to look forward to as well! 

Meet The Teacher Presentation

Spellings

Each week all children have a spelling homework task to complete. This should be handed in on a Wednesday. *Please note that some children have highlighted focus words and are not required to learn all words given on the sheet.*

Each week there is a spelling rule or pattern which is our class focus.  

Useful Links!

Year 5 Equipment List

Resources List

• a pencil case that will fit in your tray easily
• a few writing pencils 
• coloured pencils 
• a pencil sharpener
• a rubber (which doesn't smudge)
• a ruler (in cm and mm)
• a couple of purple pens
• a few highlighters
• a whiteboard pen (a small whiteboard pen eraser would also be really useful)
• a glue stick
• a dictionary (preferably Oxford addition)
• a notebook (no smaller than A5 preferably with lines)