Class Teachers: Emel Ali - Assistant Head Teacher/Year Group Lead, Demi Jeffels, Marie-Therese, Annie Ray

Welcome

Welcome

Welcome to Year 5. We hope that your child’s time in Year 5 is both memorable and enjoyable. In Year 5, we believe that we have a very interesting curriculum with a range of topics that will stimulate your child’s love for learning.  We plan many of our lessons in a cross curricular manner which we think helps children to learn and thrive. We think that learning in this manner, enables them to research and learn about key themes in depth, which in turn generates high levels of interest and stimulation. We promise to try to provide a range of opportunities for children to engage in learning in a variety of ways, including outside of the classroom, be it going on trips, or attending workshops/having visitors into school. We believe that this helps to reinforce their learning and create enthusiasm about the subject within their topic. In Year 5 it is important for children to develop their independence and resilience, and this is something in which we focus on throughout the year, with your support, in order to prepare them for year 6 and beyond. We look forward to getting to know your children and yourselves this year and welcome you and your family to Year 5.

Year 5 Teaching Team

Curriculum / Learning

Here are the new school values:

We will act with cooperation because we are a community

We will use creativity to learn and grow.

We will show consideration as everyone is of equal value and importance.

We want our children to:

Know who they are.

Respect others for who they are.

Never stop learning.

Our Learning

Year 5 follows the Department for Education’s National Curriculum Framework and provides broad and balanced teaching opportunities which promote the spiritual, moral, social, cultural, mental and physical development of our pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.

The National Curriculum Framework 

Mathematics

Mathematics teaching in Year 5 (Upper Key Stage 2) is designed to develop pupil knowledge so that they become increasingly fluent with whole numbers and the four operations – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division –  number facts and the concept of place value. Pupils are expected to develop efficient written and mental methods and perform calculations accurately with increasingly large whole numbers.  Additionally in Year 5 the programme of study requires pupils to draw shapes accurately and to develop mathematical reasoning so that they can recognise and analyse their properties.

Pupils are also expected to have developed their ability to solve a range of problems, including: more complex fractions, decimal place value, memorise their multiplication tables up to and including the 12 times multiplication table, read and spell mathematical vocabulary correctly and confidently and show precision and fluency in their work.

Maths Knowledge and Skills Maps Year 5 

Helpful Websites to practise times tables.

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Calculation Strategies: Guidance for Parents and Carers 

Year 5 Programme of Study

• Number (place value/addition and subtraction/multiplication and division/fractions/decimals and percentages)
• Measurement
• Geometry – properties of shape
• Statistics

Download Year 5 Mathematics Programme of Study

English

In Year 5 the expectation is that pupils will be able to read accurately and at a speed that facilitates them to focus on understanding what they are reading, rather than on decoding individual words. Teaching will be directed towards developing our readers’ vocabulary and the breadth and depth of their reading, creating independent, fluent and enthusiastic readers who read widely and frequently.

In Year 5 we will be consolidating our pupil’s writing skills, their vocabulary and their grasp of sentence structure. Pupils will build on what they have already learnt, particularly in terms of the range of their writing, grammar, vocabulary and narrative structures.  Joined writing is accepted as the norm and pupils are expected to write fast enough to keep pace with what they want to say.  Pupil’s spelling of common words should be correct, including common exception words (see below) and other words they have learnt.

Year 5 English Knowledge and Skills map

Year 5 English Programme of Study 

• Spoken Language
• Reading – word/comprehension
• Writing – transcription (spelling and handwriting)
• Writing – composition (articulating ideas and structuring them in speech and writing

Science

The main focus of science teaching in Year 5 (Upper Key Stage 2) is to broaden our pupil’s scientific view of the world around them by exploring, talking about, testing and developing ideas about everyday phenomena and exploring the relationships between living things and familiar environments. The key scientific enquiry skills that are expected are: observing changes over time, noticing patterns, grouping and classifying things, carrying out fair tests and finding things out through secondary sources of information

Year 5 Science Programme of Study

• Electricity
• States of matter
• Sound
• Living things and their habitats
• Animals including humans
• Scientific Enquiry

Year 5 Science Knowledge and Skills Map 2025-2026

Foundation Subjects

The following subjects: Art and Design, Design and Technology (D&T), Geography, History, Computing, French (MFL), Music, Physical Education (PE), Religious Education (RE) and Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Education (SMSC)/Citizenship are taught within exciting topic lessons over the academic year.

Topics are driven by different subjects (e.g. History and Religious Education).  All foundation subjects will be taught through this cross-curricular approach providing the different disciplines with a practical learning context. Each new topic commences with a planned ‘launch’. Launches may be a workshop, a school trip, a visitor/guest/parent presenting to the year group, the sampling of international foods/dance and/or opportunities to celebrate cultural/religious festivals.

For a more comprehensive overview of the national curriculum use the link for our Curriculum page.

French

Please go to the French tab to find out more about our French learning at school.

The Topics we will be Teaching this Year

Discover all the exciting topics by downloading the Year 5 curriculum map below.

Rhodes Avenue Primary School Curriculum Overview 2025 – 2026

The Skills and Knowledge we will be teaching

To discover the Foundation Subject Skills and Knowledge we will be teaching within the topics download the skills and knowledge matrix below.

Complete Year 5 Knowledge and Skills Maps 2025 2026 

Ourselves and others

First aid – the children will learn how to ensure their own safety, seek help from others and deal with bleeding and head injuries.

Legal and illegal drug use — the children will learn about the effects and risks of legal and illegal drugs, explore attitudes to drug use and challenge myths and will also consider strategies and develop skills to resist peer pressure and drug use.

Wider Living — the children will explore the terms ‘sexism’, ‘racism’ and ‘ableism’ and the possible consequences of such discrimination and how stereotypes promote negative feelings and images. They will also consider the impact being in a ‘minority’ group on people’s lives and opportunities.

Links to the Relation Sexual Health Education (R.S.H.E) Schemes  of work

Our school uses the PSHE Association, St John’s Ambulance and Christopher Winter Project (CWP) lessons and resources when delivering RSHE.  Further information regarding the teaching of RSHE can be found in our (RSHE) policy which can be accessed from our Policies page on our school website.  The schemes of work for each year can be found on the Curriculum page on our school website.

Parents do not have the right to withdraw their children from Relationships and Health Education. Parents have the right to withdraw their children from any aspects of the non-statutory and/or non-Science curriculum components of Sex Education within RSHE.  Parents wishing to withdraw their children must inform the Headteacher in writing of their wishes using the proforma in Appendix 3 of our RSHE policy.

Year 5 – Knowledge and Skills Maps Ourselves and Others 2025 2026 

Routines/Timetable

Physical Education days

PE slots – 5AJ – Tuesday; 5MS – Wednesday and Friday; 5AR – Swimming Tuesday and PE Wednesday.

Please ensure that children bring their PE kit to school in time for their lessons each week. Long hair must be tied back, they should wear the Rhodes Avenue PE T-shirt, appropriate sports trousers or shorts and appropriate footwear for the session.

Timetable/Routines

Music

• Orchestra – Thursdays 2.30pm (Witham Hall)
• Junior Choir – Wednesday lunchtime 12.15-12.45 (Sports Hall)

Specialist sessions

• Art – Rosie Sawyer
• PE -Chelsea Orridge-Golding and Bren Amooty
• Music -Dan Shafran
• French – Samantha Gape

Year 5 Media

Videos

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