Year 5 2025 - 2026

Meet the Team

5G - Mr Grant and Ms Jafar

5GW - Mr Gilder 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 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:

• Multiplication and division - multiplying and dividing 4-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers and multiplying 2-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers
• Fractions - multiplying fractions by a single digit and finding fractions of amounts

English:

Talk for Writing unit: Defeating a monster sequel story

• Use subordinate clauses to add detail
• Use descriptive language to describe characters and settings  
• Use a variety of sentence openers
• Use literary features such as similes and alliteration 

 
History: Anglo Saxons

We will be focusing on the Anglo Saxons in Britain looking at their daily life, achievements and society 

Knowledge Organiser

Science: Properties and changes of materials

We will be investigating the properties of different materials and investigating how these properties change

Knowledge Organiser

DT and Computing: Physical Computing

We will be using physical computing to explore the concept of selection in programming through the use of the Crumble programming.

Religious Education:

If God is everywhere, why got to a place of worship?

PHSE: Digital resilience.

We are going to focusing on the purpose and effect of different types of media and the importance of careers

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.

• Gymnastics - Wednesday

            Kit: Black shorts or tight-fitting black leggings and a plain white t-shirt.

Outdoor Games - Thursday

We are learning tag rugby

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 The Girl Who Stole An Elephant, by Nizrana Farooq.

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.