Year 5
Week beginning 15th September 2025
Our project for this half-term is 'Ancient Greece'.
Year 5 had a fantastic week, topped off with our exciting Greek Day! We held our own Mini Olympics, crowned winners with wreaths, and enjoyed tasting traditional Greek foods. We also explored the three types of Greek columns and discovered the architects of the Parthenon. Well done, Year 5, for a brilliant week of learning, teamwork and enthusiasm!
Important dates and messages:
Worship theme:
New beginnings. Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Discuss changes around us e.g. school – the new year, new classes etc. Discuss feelings about change – excitements and anxiety. God’s love does transform people. Not just the real people of the Bible stories but you and me and others all around us. The same love that transformed the people recorded in the Bible is able to transform people today. Tell bible story of a character that Jesus completely changed. Zacchaeus Luke 19 or Saul of Tarsus – Acts 9:1-31
Curriculum.
In English, we will be writing speeches based on key moments in classical civilisation history. We’ll also be building our vocabulary using words such as deemed, nurture, loathsome, lurking, curdle, content, assembled, gaggle, ancient, tentative, and plummeted.
In spelling, we will be practising our No Nonsense Spellings to strengthen our accuracy and confidence.
In reading, we will continue our class novel Who Let the Gods Out, developing our understanding of characters and plot.
In maths, we will be continuing our work on place value, building confidence in reading, writing and comparing numbers.
In history, we will be exploring the story of the Trojan War and learning how Herodotus gathered eyewitness accounts 2400 years ago to record past events. We’ll also be learning about the events of the Ancient Greek Olympics, such as wrestling, long jump and chariot racing.
In RE, we will be deepening our understanding of the Five Pillars of Islam and how they guide the lives of Muslims.
In computing, we will be learning about online safety, including how data can be searched and sorted in different ways.
In DT, we will be discovering how mechanisms work by exploring levers, pulleys and gears.
In science, we will be learning about heating and cooling, investigating how materials change when heated or cooled.
In art, we will be experimenting with texture and pattern using a range of media to inspire our own Greek pillar designs.
In PSHE, we will be learning how to assess whether online content is fact, opinion, or biased, building our media literacy and digital resilience.
In French, we will be practising how to order food and drink through a role-play set Au salon de thé (At the Tea Room).
In music, we will continue learning the project 'Animal Kingdom'
In geography, we will be locating Greece on a map, learning about its capital city, Athens, and discovering that there are more than 60,000 islands in Greece. The largest Greek island is Crete.
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 - (This is still to be set up for this term) 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 'Who Let The Gods Out' by Maz Evans 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.”