Year 5 2024 - 2025

Meet the Team

5G - Mr Grant, Ms Jafar and Mrs Knight

5S - Miss Spence and Miss Watt

French and Music will be taught by Mme Lié and Miss Osborne

If you have any questions, please speak to one of our Year 5 staff or email year5@almapark.manchester.sch.uk

Welcome

Welcome to Year 5! In Year 5, we look forward to taking on new challenges and celebrating our successes together, developing as independent, hardworking and passionate learners, ready to take on Year 6.

Here, you can find an overview of the Year 5 Curriculum. You can use this information to discuss with your child what they have learned and continue to support their learning at home.

This half term:

Maths:

• Shapes - estimating, measuring and drawing angles using a protractor accurately
• Position and direction - read and plot coordinates, translating shapes and findng lines of symmetry 

English:

Talk for Writing unit: using tension and suspense

• Use subordinate clauses to add detail
• use specific techniques to create tension and suspense 
• Use a variety of sentence openers

 
History: The Vikings

We will investigating the impact the Vikings made to Britain, focusing on several golden threads such as a daily life, achievement and society

Knowledge Organiser

Science: Living things and their habitats

We will be investigating and describing the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, amphibian, insect and bird

Knowledge Organiser

Design and Technology - Moving Toys

We will be experimenting with different mechanisms to create a moving toys using the appropriate tools safely  

Knowledge Organiser

Computing: We Game Developers

We will be looking at how to create a simple game using coding

Religious Education:

What matters most to Christians and Humanists?

PHSE: Digital resilience.

We are going to focusing on physical and mental well being and growing and changing in RSE

French:

We are improving our French language skills. We will be learning about adjectives that precede the noun and adverbs of place.

P.E:

Remember to come into school wearing your PE kit on the following days.

• Outdoor Adenturous Activities - Wednesday

           Kit: Trainers, black shorts or tight-fitting black leggings, and a plain white t-shirt (a tracksuit top and joggers may be worn if cold)

Outdoor Games - Thursday

We are learning tennis

Kit: Trainers, black shorts or tight-fitting black leggings, and a plain white t-shirt (a tracksuit top and joggers may be worn if cold)

Forest Schools:

We will be learning a new skills this half term. Look out for parentmail to let you know when the next session will be.

Reading:

In class we are currently reading Holes by Louis Sachar

Please read with your child every day and comment in their reading record when you do. Reading books should be in school everyday for independent reading and can be changed any day:

Homework: 

This half term's BrainBuilder can be found here

Year 5's spellings will be sent out every Friday to learn for a spelling test the following Friday.