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Year 5

Welcome to Year 5!

There are three terrific teachers in Year 5 – Mrs Staniford, Mrs Winslow and Mrs Riley. Our wonderful teaching assistants are Mrs Wardle, Mrs Booth, Mrs Isham and Mrs Kemish, who work across both Year 5 classes. 

 

Mrs Staniford

Mrs Riley

 
Mrs Wardle

 

 

 
Important notices

Every child should arrive at school on time and ready to learn. We will open our gates at 8:35am and children need to have arrived by 8:45am to ensure they do not receive a late mark in the register. The gates will shut promptly after 8:45am. Being on time each day will enable your children to receive the best of their learning opportunities.

The children will be doing P.E with Mr. Oliver each week on a Tuesday. Your child should come to school wearing their PE kit.

Clarinet lessons will be every Wednesday afternoon. When you are given your clarinet, you are welcome to take it home to practice over the weekend but please ensure it is brought back in on Monday ready for Wednesday's lesson.

Please ensure you sign up to WEDUC at the start of the year as we do not want you to miss any important information.

Please contact the office if there are any changes with personal details e.g., new address or change to mobile phone numbers.

Please ensure that school uniform is labelled and adheres to school policy.

Diary Dates!

  • 16th and 17th October – Parents Evening
  • 25th October – Break up for half term 
  • 4th November – INSET day
  • 5th November - Back to school
  • 11th November - Butterfly Farm Trip
  • 12th November - School Council Trip
  • 15th November - Children in Need day - Non-uniform/fancy dress - £1 donation via parent pay
  • 5th December - Christmas Fayre - 6-8pm All Welcome
  • 16th December - Year 4 and 5 Christmas Production 2pm
  • 17th December - Year 4 and 5 Christmas Production 2pm
  • Thursday 19th December - Christmas Party
  • Friday 20th December - Christmas jumper day and break up for half term! Santa is coming!
Reading and Homework Expectations

The children will have many opportunities to read and enjoy books throughout the week at school, especially in shared reading sessions and through listening to our class text. Children in Year 5 visit the school library each Tuesday, where they can choose from both fiction and non-fiction books.

We ask that children read at home as often as possible, ideally 10 minutes each day and that they record this in their reading diaries. Reading at home and discussing books with your child is a great way to build on and improve not only their reading fluency, but also their wider reading skills such as inference and comprehension. Regular readers who record it in their reading diary are rewarded with bronze stickers.

Spellings are given out every Thursday and your child will be tested on these the following Thursday.

Homework will be handed out each Thursday and will be due in the following Wednesday. Sometimes, homework will consist of projects which last a few weeks. We will inform you when this is the case.

Times Table Rockstars

Fluency in all the multiplication tables up to 12x12 is important for children in Key Stage 2. Many of the concepts covered in the Year 5 mathematics curriculum require children to be fluent in recalling their times tables facts.

Times Tables Rock Starts is a fantastic tool for your child to practise their skills. Once logged in to Times Tables Rock Stars, children can compete in ‘Battle of the Bands’ against the other Year 5 class and compete with their friends and children around the world. Your child’s log in details and password remain the same as last year... Just a quick 10-minute practice every day will have a huge impact on their development in this area. Children are rewarded for their efforts on TTRS and we are able to see where they have excelled and where they may need some additional support.

What do we learn in Year 5?

Click here to download our Year 5 Curriculum Overview

Please read this half-term newsletter to see how you can support your child's learning at home.

       

 

End of Year 5 Expectations

Here you will find information for parents and carers on the end of year expectations for children in our school. The staff have identified these expectations as being the minimum requirements your child must meet in order to ensure continued progress throughout the following year.

All the objectives will be worked on throughout the year and will be the focus of direct teaching. Any extra support you can provide in helping your children to achieve these expectations are greatly valued.

If you have any queries regarding the content on this page or want support in knowing how best to help your child please talk to your child’s teacher.

Reading

  • Recommending books that they have read to their peers, giving reasons for their choices
  • Identifying and discussing themes and conventions in and across a wide range of writing
  • Making comparisons within and across books
  • Learning a wider range of poetry by heart
  • Preparing poems and plays to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone and volume so that the meaning is clear to an audience

Understand what they read by:

  • Checking that the book makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and exploring the meaning of words in context
  • Asking questions to improve their understanding
  • Drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
  • Predicting what might happen from details stated and implied
  • Summarising the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas
  • Identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning
  • Discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader
  • Distinguish between statements of fact and opinion
  • Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction
  • Participate in discussions about books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, building on their own and others’ ideas and challenging views courteously
  • Explain and discuss their understanding of what they have read, including through formal presentations and debates, maintaining a focus on the topic and using notes where necessary
  • Provide reasoned justifications for their views

Writing

Spelling:

  • Use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them
  • Spell some words with ‘silent’ letters [for example, knight, psalm, solemn]
  • Continue to distinguish between homophones and other words which are often confused
  • Use knowledge of morphology and etymology in spelling 
  • Use dictionaries to check the spelling and meaning of words
  • Use the first three or four letters of a word to check spelling, meaning or both of these in a dictionary
  • Use a thesaurus.

Handwriting and presentation:

  • Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed

Writing:

  • Identify the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own
  • Noting and developing initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary
  • In writing narratives, considering how authors have developed characters and settings in what pupils have read, listened to or seen performed
  • Draft and write by selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning in narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action
  • Précising longer passages
  • Using a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs
  • Using further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader [for example, headings, bullet points, underlining]
  • Evaluate and edit by assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing
  • Proposing changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning
  • Ensuring the consistent and correct use of tense throughout a piece of writing
  • Ensuring correct subject and verb agreement when using singular and plural, distinguishing between the language of speech and writing and choosing the appropriate register
  • Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors
  • Perform their own compositions, using appropriate intonation, volume, and movement so that meaning is clear
  • Recognising vocabulary and structures that are appropriate for formal speech and writing, including subjunctive forms
  • Using passive verbs to affect the presentation of information in a sentence
  • Using the perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of time and cause
  • Using expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely
  • Using modal verbs or adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility
  • Using relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun
  • Using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing
  • Using hyphens to avoid ambiguity
  • Using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
  • Using semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses
  • Using a colon to introduce a list
  • Punctuating bullet points consistently
  • Use and understand grammatical terminology accurately and appropriately in discussing their writing and reading.

Mathematics

  • Read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1 000 000 and determine the value of each digit
  • Count forwards or backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1 000 000
  • Interpret negative numbers in context, count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through zero
  • Round any number up to 1 000 000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10 000 and 100 000
  • Solve number problems and practical problems that involve all of the above
  • Read Roman numerals to 1000 (M) and recognise years written in Roman numerals
  • Add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits
  • Add and subtract numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers
  • Use rounding to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, levels of accuracy
  • Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why
  • Identify multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs of a number, and common factors of two numbers
  • Know and use the vocabulary of prime numbers, prime factors and composite (non-prime) numbers
  • Establish whether a number up to 100 is prime and recall prime numbers up to 19
  • Multiply numbers up to 4 digits by a one- or two-digit number using a formal written method, including long multiplication for two-digit numbers
  • Multiply and divide numbers mentally drawing upon known facts
  • Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a one-digit number using the formal written method of short division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context
  • Multiply and divide whole numbers and those involving decimals by 10, 100 and 1000
  • Recognise and use square numbers and cube numbers, and the notation for squared ( 2 ) and cubed (3 )
  • Solve problems involving multiplication and division including using their knowledge of factors and multiples, squares and cubes
  • Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and a combination of these, including understanding the meaning of the equals sign
  • Solve problems involving multiplication and division, including scaling by simple fractions and problems involving simple rates
  • Compare and order fractions whose denominators are all multiples of the same number
  • Identify, name and write equivalent fractions of a given fraction, represented visually, including tenths and hundredths
  • Recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert from one form to the other 
  • Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and denominators that are multiples of the same number
  • Multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers, supported by materials and diagrams
  • Read and write decimal numbers as fractions
  • Recognise and use thousandths and relate them to tenths, hundredths and decimal equivalents
  • Round decimals with two decimal places to the nearest whole number and to one decimal place
  • Read, write, order and compare numbers with up to three decimal places
  • Solve problems involving number up to three decimal places
  • Recognise the percent symbol (%) and understand that percent relates to ‘number of parts per hundred’, and write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100, and as a decimal
  • Solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents and those fractions with a denominator of a multiple of 10 or 25
  • Convert between different units of metric measure (for example, kilometre and metre; centimetre and metre; centimetre and millimetre; gram and kilogram; litre and millilitre)
  • Understand and use approximate equivalences between metric units and common imperial units such as inches, pounds and pints
  • Measure and calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes in centimetres and metres
  • Calculate and compare the area of rectangles (including squares), and including using standard units, square centimetres (cm2 ) and square metres (m2 ) and estimate the area of irregular shapes
  • Estimate volume and capacity
  • Solve problems involving converting between units of time
  • Use all four operations to solve problems involving measure [length, mass, volume, money] using decimal notation, including scaling
  • Identify 3-D shapes, including cubes and other cuboids, from 2-D representations
  • Know angles are measured in degrees: estimate and compare acute, obtuse and reflex angles
  • Draw given angles, and measure them in degrees
  • Identify angles at a point, one whole turn, on a straight line, half a turn and other multiples of 90 degrees
  • Use the properties of rectangles to deduce related facts and find missing lengths and angles
  • Distinguish between regular and irregular polygons based on reasoning about equal sides and angles
  • Identify, describe and represent the position of a shape following a reflection or translation, using the appropriate language, and know that the shape has not changed
  • Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in a line graph
  • Complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables

Recommended Reading List

Spellings