Year 5
Week beginning 3rd November 2025
Our project for this half-term is 'Young Enterprise'.
We hope you all have a wonderful half term and a well deserved break. We have been unbelievably proud of the children this term. They are beginning to display excellent , mature learning behaviours and have created some fantastic pieces of work this term. The children have learnt so much about Ancient Greece and have impressed all the adults with how enthusiastic they have been.
Our project next term is 'Young Enterprise', which is jam-packed with a lot of creative and innovative learning. We will be learning about entrepenurship acorss the curriculum and even getting several opportunities to design and create their own products that you will get the chance to purchase at our Christmas 'Winter Wonderland'. This is an exciting project that gives the childrne opportunitity to take ownership and pride in their own learning so we are really excited to get started.
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 I will give concise reminders below:
- Monday 13th October - Children’s Individual Photographs - school uniform, no PE kits please
- Friday 24th October - Break up for Half Term (normal pick up time)
- Monday 3rd November - Children return for the final half of Autumn Term
- Saturday 8th November - School Open Morning 10am -12pm
- Tuesday 18th November - School Nurse Drop-in Session - from 8:45am in church annexe (book with office)
- 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:
Jesus the light of the world
Why do we need light?
Curriculum.
English
In English, the children will be exploring intructional texts and using these to inform their own instructions for their baked goods that they will later design and create in DT.
Maths
We will continue to follow white rose progression map, learning multiplication facts. In addition, we will be embedding mental maths skills through our 'Maths Mastery' program, which has been very effective so far.
Science
In science, the children will be continuing to learn about everyday materials, focussing on material properties this week.
RE
This term will be focusing on incarnation and this week, the children will be learning what a Massiah is and discuss whether Jesus was a Messiah.
PSHE
In PSHE, the children will be discussing safe boundries and physical touch. Having the conversations at home will also support the children with understanding this.
DT
This term is very DT heavy and this week, the children will learning about the purpose of market reseach and carrying out their own market research. They will use this to inform their own product design, considering the ideas of supply and demand.
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 '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.
This week: amateur, ancient, lightning, bargain, determined
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.”