Year 5 2026 - 2027

Meet the Team

5G - Mr Grant and Miss Watt

5S - Miss Ng and Miss Borowy

Miss Holmes will also be working in Year 5 as an additional teacher providing bespoke support.

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 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:

• Place Value - recognise, order, round and compare numbers up to 1,000,000 
• Addition and subtraction - use a written method to solve problems involving addition and subtraction up to 5 digits

English:

Talk for Writing unit: Mystery story

• Use subordinate clauses to add detail
• Use descriptive language to describe characters and settings  
• Use a variety of sentence openers

Geography: Angry Earth

We will focusing on the layers of the Earth, tectonic plates and how these cause natural disasters 

Knowledge Organiser

Science: Earth, Sun and Moon

We will be investigating the movements of Earth and the moon in relation to the sun. We will find out how the rotation and orbit of Earth affects us each year.

Knowledge Organiser

Art: Typography  

We will be exploring the visual art of creating and arranging letters and words on a page to help communicate ideas or emotions

Knowledge Organiser

Computing: Digital Literacy - We are Bloggers.

We will be looking at how to safely create a blog with attachments such as images and video links.

Religious Education:

What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain today?

PHSE: Safe relationships.

We are going to focusing on respecting ourselves and others.

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 Adventurous 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 athletics and 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 Kensuke's Kingdom, by Michael Morpurgo.

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 follow the SCODE spelling scheme.