Year 5

Welcome to Year Five!

We would like to take this opportunity to say hello and extend a warm welcome to the parents and children joining Year 5 this year.  We have lots of exciting events planned and hope your children will share these with you on a regular basis.  This year is a hugely important time in their school life.  Being in UKS2, the children have a responsibility to the younger pupils. They will experience new opportunities and challenges throughout the year, both inside and outside the classroom.  These will help them to develop and evolve both as learners and as the young adults they are blossoming into.  

Parent Presentation

Curriculum Overviews

• Overview - Year 5 - Autumn 2023 - 1st Half - The holiday show
• Overview - Year 5 - Autumn 2023 - 2nd half term - The great the bold and the brave
• Overview - Year 5 - Spring 2024 - 1st Half Term- We are Space Explorers
• Overview - Year 5 - Spring 2024 - 2nd Half Term- Making New Materials
• Overview - Year 5 - Summer 2024 - 1st Half Term - The Time Tunnel Victorians

Latest Year 5 News & Events

• Thursday 28 March 2024 Year 5 - what have we been up to? Year 5 have been busy swimming for the whole of March so learning has been very disrupted. However, they have soldiered on through last minute changes and afternoon English and Maths lessons. A huge well done to all of the children in Year 5 for their superb progress in their learning. Certificates have all been handed out.
• Tuesday 12 March 2024 Year 5's Science Day As part of Science Day, Year 5 took part in experiments all day following the whole school focus on ‘time’.
• Wednesday 28 February 2024 World Book Day Stories The infamous World Book Day stories are back in Year 5! Excitedly Monday, the children in year 5 came up with questions about books for year 2. They interviewed the children about their likes and dislikes in books and what they would like a book to be about. Tuesday, their heads full of ideas the children sprang into action and began to plan their storybooks for the year 2s. We have footballs, unicorns and cats going on crazy adventures with some singers and princesses too. The rest of this week our author's and illustrators have been very hard at work to write, draw and put together their story. Year 2 get ready because we have some great stories coming your way!
• Friday 2 February 2024 Year 5 Space Projects! It's that time of year again, for the infamous Year 5 space projects! Over the term the children have learnt a whole cosmos of information about the planets, the moon and our galaxy. The children thoroughly enjoyed working on their projects coming up with their own unique take on the solar system and more. Miss Young and Mrs Grant definitely have their work cut out for them trying to pick a winner...
• Friday 19 January 2024 Year 5 are Learning About Space It's been a very planetary week this week up in year 5. We have been learning about the planets through Virtual Reality and making our fact file posters with our newly found information and created some eye catching art in the style of Peter Thorpe.We even pushed ourselves to create a mnemonic phrase to help us remember the order of the planets, such as ''My Very Excellent Mum Just Served Us Noodles''
• Friday 12 January 2024 5G Create Roman CAM Toys We have been busy getting back into routine upstairs in year 5, so we thought we share with your incredible work we completed in the last week of autumn term. In the last week of term to finish off our work on the Romans we created CAM toys. These toys are made up different parts; a follower, a cam and a handle and a slider. The 'cam' is what gives our toys the up and down movement they have based on the shape. We used round ones, egg shape ones and tear drop ones. We worked in pairs to measure, saw and glue these items into place. We had to think about our follower and had to make sure they could be seen when moving. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience for all and we look forward to our future creations.
• Thursday 9 November 2023 Year 5 Learn about Jack Cornwell
• Tuesday 7 November 2023 Year 5 are Wild Eco Builders In Year 5 this week, we took part in a second virtual workshop led by the Institute of Imagination. The theme this time was Wild Eco Builders where we looked at how the science of nature can inspire us to imagine creative solutions when designing architecture.
• Monday 6 November 2023 Remembering Shirley This week in year 5, to remember Shirley whose funeral was this week we created messages and memories about her. We placed these onto the memory tree in the school library. We thought of memories and kind words to place on the small hearts and decorated them with her favourite things; foxes and flowers. We took our time and had a quiet moment to remember her by the tree. Later in the playground at lunchtime we did a 1 minute silence in respect of her. The children shared very fond memories and not a dry eye was in sight.

• Monday 4 March 2024 Year 5 - Careers Week To celebrate Careers Week in school we are being visited by some our students parents to come and talk to classes about their work and what they do in their field. In year 5 were visited by Ms. McIlory who works for Mental Heath First Aid England as their Head of Campaigns & Communications. She told us about a lot of the different things she did in her job and showed us some of the campaigns she created with her team. She also informed us of ways to help us with our mental health and who we can speak to when we worried about our mental health or if we are worried about someone close to us and their mental wellbeing. The children were full of questions such as what is your favourite thing about your job, what other jobs have you done and if you could do any other job in your company what do you think you could do? and many more. Ms. McIlory was very impressed with the children's questions and the attention they gave to her and her talk. Thank you again Ms McIlory!
• Friday 3 November 2023 Year 5 Class Assembly - the Holiday Show - November 2023 In Year 5, our topic last term was 'The Holiday Show' where we were learning about the physical Geography of the World. To begin with, we learned about weather patterns and the different biomes on Earth. After looking at different biomes around the World, we focused on London and in particular, its landmarks. During our learning, we were lucky enough to go into central London and take a boat along the River Thames passing by many recognisable landmarks. To conclude our learning , the children - as part of their homework- created London landmarks.

Year 5 upcoming Events

Sorry, there are no current diary dates.

Contact Us

Year5@southgrove.waltham.sch.uk