Welcome to Year 5

The Year 5 TeamClass Teachers:

Tom Gould Katie Clark

(5G) (5C)

Year 5 Teaching Assistant: Roselle Andrews & Sarah Godden

Year 5 Intervention Staff: Clara Fernandes, Anita Chandra & Stephen Broad

The Learning Year in

Year 5

Recovery

Re-cap of year 4 knowledge

Targeted and purposeful interventions

Grammar and maths meetings

Little and often!

– Times tables

– Daily arithmetic

– Daily reading

Year 5 English

Power of Reading texts

– Street Child, Clockwork, London Eye Mystery, Eye of the wolf, Highwayman, Adventures of Odysseus

Handwriting – pen licences

Spelling

Guided Reading

Vocabulary – Wonder words

Reading for pleasure

Grammar

Handwriting

Pen licences to be issued as and when children are using neat, continuous cursive handwriting.

Year 5 Maths

Number: Number and Place Value

Number: Addition and Subtraction

Number: Multiplication and Division

Number: Fractions (including Decimals and Percentages)

Ratio and Proportion

Measurement

Geometry: Properties of Shapes

Geometry: Position and Direction

Statistics

Maths in Year 5

• Arithmetic:

- Lessons

- Weekly practise tests

- Maths meetings

• Reasoning:

- Statements

- Tasks

- Problem Solving

Year 5 Science

Forces

Earth and Space

Living things and their habitats

Animals including humans

Properties and changes of materials

Oracy

Discussion guidelines

Hand signals

Sentence stems

Target vocabulary

Partner talk

Iris connect

Oracy bricks

Year 5 Topics

Autumn

Term

Spring Term Summer

Term

How has

childhood

changed since

the Victorian era?

How have the

achievements of

the Victorian era

affected our lives

today?

Is fair trade

fair?

Would you

rather live in

Ancient or a

modern

Greece?

Year 5 PSHE

Mind up sessions

Brain breaks

Worry box

Place 2 Be

Our timetable

Specialist Spanish teacher – 1 hour every

other Wednesday.

PE – afternoons with Mr Clack and Mr

Haughton

Extra PE sessions – Specialist coaching

(Mondays), Lacrosse (Thursdays)

Expectations

Good to be Green system

House points

FAIL, High expectations, 100%

Fluid seating

Homework & Mathletics

Talking Homework – sent home via Parent Mail

each Friday.

Spellings – sent home via Parent Mail at the

beginning of each half term.

Mathletics – set every Monday to be completed

by Friday.

Times tables – children should be confident in all

times tables up to 12.

Reading – For at least 20 minutes a day.

English/maths weekly homework

Half termly project

Autumn Term

Paradise Co-operative (5G – 4th November, 5C

– 11th November)

Spring Term

Year 5 Singing project (Wandsworth Music)

Summer Term

Wildchild (subject to change)

Planned Trips and events

Due to COVID, trips are more likely to be

changed/cancelled and are more difficult to arrange.

Parents’ Evening

18th & 19th November

Winter Performances (TBC)

Key Dates

How to arrange an appointment

Appointments can be made via the office.

When raising minor issues please email :

– info@allfarthing.wandsworth.sch.uk

– 5G@allfarthing.wandsworth.sch.uk

– 5C@allfarthing.wandsworth.sch.uk

Other people to contact:

Phase leader – Tom Gould

Assistant Head/Deputy Head/Head Teacher

Pkea

Thank you for coming