Year 5
Week beginning 24th November 2025
Our project for this half-term is 'Young Enterprise'.
Our Year 5 group have had a truly fantastic week, filled with creativity, teamwork and impressive learning. The highlight has been writing an amazing set of instructions, which the children worked incredibly hard on from planning through to publishing. Their finished pieces are clear, detailed and beautifully presented, and we are now very excited to be turning them into our very own recipe booklet. The class should feel extremely proud of what they have achieved this week!
Important dates and messages:
The children will be designing and creating baked goods to sell at the Winter Wonderland on 12th December. We would love to see as many faces there to support their sales.
Key Dates
The calendar section on the website should give you major events throughout the academic year, but here are some reminders below:
- Friday 21st November - PSA discos in the hall
- Monday 24th November - Open Afternoon and Book Look - 3:20pm - 4:20pm
- Wednesday 26th November - Online Parents’ Evening - 4pm - 7pm
- Thursday 27th November - Online Parents’ Evening - 3:30pm - 6pm
- Friday 5th December - PSA Quiz Night - 7pm - 10pm in the hall
- Friday 12th December - PSA Winter Wonderland – 3:20pm - 5:30pm in school
- Tuesday 16th December - Year 5 and 6 Carols by Candlelight - 6pm in church
- Friday 19th December - Break up at 1:20pm for Christmas Holidays
- Thursday 11th June 2026 - School’s 170th Birthday
- Friday 19th June 2026 - Sports Day at King’s Park Stadium
- Saturday 27th June - St. James’ Summer Fayre
Worship theme:
Spirituality
“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
2 Corinthians 3:17
Curriculum
English: Next week the children will begin looking at descriptive writing linking to our class book and their sweet treats.
Maths: Next week we will continue with fractions, beginning to look at converting mixed numbers and improper fractions.
Science: Next week we will explore how heating can cause some materials to change permanently. Children will investigate whether a new substance has been made and record their findings.
DT / Computing: Next week Computing lessons will focus on CAD — exploring different viewpoints of a model (3D, nets and points) and how viewpoint affects design. DT will link to this work as children design and create decorations to sell for our Christmas/Year 5 project outcome.
RE: Next week we will continue exploring why Jesus was known as ‘The Prince of Peace’, and we will begin to discuss how this links to our Christmas reflections.
PSHE: Next week we will continue the “Difference” unit (Session 2: Navigating). Children will look at stereotypes and different viewpoints and reflect on how their interests and aspirations might shape future choices.
French: Next week we will learn how to describe clothes in full sentences and practise vocabulary linked to les vêtements.
Destination Reader: Next week we will continue reading The Chronicles of Narnia (chapters 12–14) and work on making inferences about characters’ personalities and motives.
Other news:
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PPA Days - PPA Days will be every other Tuesday, and children should come in wearing PE kits.
- PE every Thursday - Children should wear their PE kits every Tuesday.
Homework:
- Please find links to the relevant information below for the Project Overview and Homework.
- MyMaths - We will set up MyMaths tasks termly, based on the learning we will be doing this term. Please let us know if you are finding them too easy or tricky, and remember that below, there are many resources you can use to extend your learning from home. Various MyMaths activities have been set for this term. This is to allow children who like to do more to be able to. However, children do not have to complete all the MyMaths activities. One per week is our minimum recommendation.
- Reading books - we would like to remind everyone to have a reading book in school - this can be a school or home book. We want all children to be able to share recommendations and reviews of what we have read recently. We display books we've read in the classroom to get children talking about the stories they love and inspire others to try new titles.
- Reading records - All children should now have a grey reading record in which they can record how often they are reading. They will receive one raffle ticket if they read three times a week and two if they read more than five. At the end of each term, we will draw a raffle to win a trip to Costa. You have to be in it to win it! Activities in the reading records can be completed at home for fun!
Reading:
We are reading 'The Chronicles of Narnia' by C.S Lewis and using the following Designation Reader sentence stems to start our answers this term. We focus on different skills in each lesson: inferring, predicting, asking questions, evaluating, clarifying, summarising, and making connections.
Spellings:
Our spellings for this term are below. However, we are moving away from weekly tests, using more discreet learning techniques, and applying our spelling words across our curriculum.
Best wishes,
Year 5 Team
Miss Martin and Miss Perry
Learning as a family in Jesus, through Love, Hope, and Forgiveness.
Matthew 19:26: “With God all things are possible.”