Welcome to Year 5

2025 ~ 2026

We are Turing Class

Staff Team

Our class teachers is: Mrs Izzo

Our Learning Support Assistant is: Mrs Helyar. 

Curriculum 

We’re excited to share an overview of what your child will be learning in Year 5. Our curriculum aims to build on the solid foundations of previous years while encouraging independence, confidence, and a love of learning.

Our PE lessons will take place on Tuesdays. Please ensure your child comes to school in their school PE kit on this day each week. 

Writing 

The children will develop their writing through:

• Grammar & punctuation: Using relative clauses, modal verbs, brackets, dashes and commas for parenthesis, as well as ensuring consistent use of tense and subject–verb agreement.
• Spelling: Following the Year 5 spelling patterns, including words with silent letters, homophones, words with prefixes and suffixes, and words from the statutory spelling list.
• Creative writing: Writing for a wide range of purposes – including stories, persuasive writing, formal letters, poetry and non-chronological reports – with an emphasis on writing in paragraphs, using varied sentence structures, and editing to improve vocabulary and accuracy.
• Handwriting: Developing a fluent, legible and speedy handwriting style, ensuring presentation is consistent across all subjects.

Reading

The children will develop their reading through:

• Fluency and expression: Reading aloud with accuracy, confidence and appropriate tone to match the text.
• Comprehension: Demonstrating deeper understanding by comparing and contrasting texts, identifying themes and conventions, and justifying views with evidence.
• Vocabulary development: Exploring ambitious and subject-specific vocabulary, using context to work out meaning and applying new words in their own writing.
• Reading for pleasure: Developing independence in choosing books, exploring a wider range of authors and genres, and discussing personal reading preferences.
• Children will take part in whole-class reading sessions, guided reading, and independent reading, with opportunities to respond to texts through discussion and written activities.

Maths
 

The children will strengthen their mathematical understanding by applying skills with increasing independence through fluency, reasoning and problem-solving.
 

• Number & place value: Understanding numbers up to 1,000,000, including rounding, comparing and working with negative numbers.
• Addition & subtraction: Using formal written methods confidently and solving multi-step problems in different contexts.
• Multiplication & division: Developing efficient written and mental strategies, working with larger numbers, and building on knowledge of factors, multiples, primes, squares and cubes.
• Fractions, decimals & percentages: Comparing and ordering fractions, adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators, recognising fraction–decimal–percentage equivalents, and solving related problems.
• Measurement: Converting between units of metric measure, working with perimeter, area and volume, and solving practical problems involving time and money.
• Geometry: Identifying and measuring angles, using properties of shapes to solve problems, and beginning to work with reflection and translation.
• Statistics: Interpreting and presenting data using line graphs and tables, and solving problems using information presented in graphs.
• Times Tables: Children should continue to practise all multiplication and division facts up to 12 × 12, as quick recall supports success across the maths curriculum. Regular practice at home using Times Tables Rockstars will help maintain and strengthen fluency.

Wider Curriculum

Children in Year 5 will study the full range of subjects across the year with a project based focus. Key History projects include Ancient Greece, The Vikings and Crime & Punishment through the ages. Work in other curriculum areas will link to these projects where appropriate, for example, the children will create their own ‘Tag’ in the style of Banksy in relation to the Crime & Punishment unit. Within their Geography lessons, the children will focus on Population, Deserts and a Local field study. P.E will consist of structured PE lessons every Tuesday and daily mile sessions on other days throughout the week. P.E will enhance ball skills, team games, gross motor skills, stamina, fitness and agility. In their science lessons, the children will cover the following areas:  Mixtures and Solutions, Materials, Space, Life Cycles and Reproduction, Forces and Space: Imbalanced Forces and Animals. Religious Studies will consist of in-depth studies of Christianity and Islam whilst exploring other religious beliefs. In Art, the children will focus on three key artists: Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Shaun Tan and Banksy. DT will focus on sewing, mechanisms and structures.

Dates for the Diary:

Individual & Sibling Photos - Wednesday 5th November 2025

Ufton Court - Ancient Greek Experience - Wednesday 4th March 2026

African Drumming Workshop (In School) - Tuesday 5th May 2026

Oxford Castle & Prison - Thursday 4th June 2026

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