Year 5 | Annesley Primary School & Nursery

Year 5 - The Falcons

Welcome to Year 5! We’ve had an exciting and productive start to the year. The children have already shown enthusiasm and curiosity across a wide range of subjects. I’m really looking forward to the learning journey ahead, and all the achievements we will celebrate along the way. If there is anything you need, please don’t hesitate to contact Mrs Towndrow.

W/C Monday 2nd March:
English: We have begun reading a fantastic children’s novel: ‘The 1000 Year Old Boy’ which offers us a wealth of rich and exciting writing opportunities -the children are very engaged and it fits beautifully with our topic: Anglo Saxons and Vikings.
Maths: We continue our unit of work about decimal and fraction equivalents. We will further develop our problem solving skills.
PSHE: We begin a new unit of work ‘ Dreams and Goals’ where we will begin to think about our ambitions for the future and how we will give ourselves the best opportunity of realising them.
Art: We will create a landscape picture.
PE: Cricket as the new season beckons. The children will be extending their range of batting shots.
Science: We completed an investigation of the reproductive parts of a flower last week. This week we will consider ‘what happened to seeds in the life cycle of flowering plants.
History: This week we consider: ‘What attracted settlers and invaders to Britain?’

The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia is a truly enormous book attracting a lot of attention in the reading corner and has further helped to fire up the class’s enthusiasm for reading.

Life cycles- how plants reproduce- a few pictures of the flower dissection we did – Fin and Ray’s is a beautifully laid-out and labelled example.

Before we began our unit of work on decimal-fraction equivalents, we recapped our prior learning and revised the different presentations used to represent decimals and fractions which gave us solid foundations to build on.

Year 5 – Falcons WC 9.2.26
Science – Year 5 enjoyed learning about pollination and dissected a flower, labelling the parts, as part of our investigation about pollination.
Maths – We will be learning about decimals and converting fractions into decimals and vice versa.
English – We will edit our stories in the style of ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’ and publish our edited version. We will share our stories then give each other feedback.
RE- We will be learning about the Pillar of Islam – Zakat (Almsgiving).
PE – we continue to competitively develop our hockey skills, putting them into action in a game situation.
Reading – Our reading lessons this week will focus on responding to inferential style questions, drawing on more than one piece of inferred evidence, then developing a logical evidence-based response.

Week commencing 2.2.26.
In Year 5 we will particularly focus:
English-investigating the story structure of ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’, then planning our story that includes an unlikely hero like the central character, Arthur. We will create our first draft and include accurately punctuated dialogue.
Spelling – homophones. We will master spelling there/their; by/buy; two/to/too; and the often confused, were/where.
Computing- we will research Viking gods and format a document.
Maths- completing our learning with Fractions, then moving onto Percentages and Decimals.
Science- Life cycles. This week we will investigate the life cycle of insects and begin to delve into the idea of ‘invertibrates’.
History – investigating life as a Viking.
French – we will be discussing pets and asking each other whether we have a pet, then responding.
PE – hockey: we continue to develop our stick control and passing skills.

What we've been learning about:This week: 19.1.26This week we have been dividing 4 digits by 1-digit; we all made amazing progress.In English we have been practising writing sentences with a relative clauses.In Science we are learning about life-cycles.
This week 15.12.25:

The children have enjoyed making peppermint creams in class!

This week - 1.12.25 - we have been learning:

To find equivalent fractions
Add and subtract fractions, including fractions with different denominators
We have begun to design our lunar rovers in DT
In history, w researched where the Benin People (900-1897), from West Africa, lived
Practised using complex and compound sentences then used these sentence styles independently in a continuous paragraph of writing

Important Dates This Term
PE Days: Mondays and Thursdays– Children must bring appropriate PE kit and footwear. Earrings must be removed or covered with tape from home.
Homework: Given out on Fridays, alternating between literacy and numeracy. Due back the following Thursday.

Useful Links and Information
BBC Bitesize – Literacy, Numeracy and Science fun activities
Dance Mat Typing
Place Value Pirates

What We’re Learning This Year
Autumn Term
Science: Solar System and Space; Day and Night
English: Sci-fi narratives, Non-chronological reports, Planet descriptions
Geography: The Americas, climate comparison, Florida & space launches
History: The Benin Kingdom and historic life comparisons
Computing: E-safety, spam awareness, password safety
Spring Term
History: Vikings and Anglo-Saxons
Geography: Settlements and rivers
English: Sagas and myths
Science: Life cycles, comparison across species
Summer Term
History: The Tudors, significant figures and societal impact
Science: Forces and materials; reversible and irreversible changes
Geography: Climate zones and environmental change
Reading
Reading records are checked weekly. Every read earns a raffle ticket, with books as prizes at term’s end. Children should read at least four times per week. Each child has a guided reading book and a personal choice book.

Homework
Homework is issued on Fridays and alternates between Maths and English. It is due back the following Friday. Children may hand it in earlier if complete.

Spellings
Spelling lists are drawn from the Year 5 and 6 statutory word list. Support your child by practising these regularly.

P.E.
PE is every Monday and Tuesday. Children must bring kit and a change of footwear. Earrings must be removed or covered with tape. Staff cannot remove earrings.

Snack
Please send a healthy snack for break time.