Year 5
Week beginning 15th December 2025
Our project for this half-term is 'Young Enterprise'.
Year 5 has had another wonderfully busy and festive week, full of creativity, teamwork and brilliant learning. We have written some absolutely fantastic descriptive pieces, using expanded noun phrases and vivid sensory details to bring a range of Christmas-themed treats to life.
We have been rehearsing our reading for Tuesday, and the class has shown great enthusiasm, energy and confidence as they prepare. We also enjoyed a successful end to our project outcome with our stall at the Winter Wonderland fayre, where the children’s hard work truly paid off.
Important dates and messages:
PPA day for Year 5 is WEDNESDAY 17th DECEMBER for this one week only.
Key Dates
The calendar section on the website should give you major events throughout the academic year, but here are some reminders below:
- Tuesday 16th December - Year 5 and 6 Carols by Candlelight - 6pm in church
- Friday 19th December - Break up at 1:20pm for Christmas Holidays
- Thursday 11th June 2026 - School’s 170th Birthday
- Friday 19th June 2026 - Sports Day at King’s Park Stadium
- Saturday 27th June - St. James’ Summer Fayre
Worship theme:
Christmas
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6
Curriculum
English:
This week, the children will enjoy a range of festive activities, including making Christmas cards and spending time with their buddies. They will also reflect on and evaluate their DT work from our Winter Wonderland project.
Maths:
We will continue enjoying Christmas-themed learning activities while applying our maths skills through practical tasks linked to the season.
DT / Computing:
The children will evaluate their Christmas projects, reflecting on what went well, what they would improve and how effectively their designs met their original intentions.
RE:
We will enjoy Christmas celebrations together and reflect on the messages of kindness, giving and community.
Performing Arts:
We will finish our rehearsals for the Christmas show, polishing our performance and building excitement for the big day.
Other news:
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PPA Days - PPA Days will be every other Tuesday, and children should come in wearing PE kits.
- PE every Thursday - Children should wear their PE kits every Tuesday.
Homework:
- Please find links to the relevant information below for the Project Overview and Homework.
- MyMaths - We will set up MyMaths tasks termly, based on the learning we will be doing this term. Please let us know if you are finding them too easy or tricky, and remember that below, there are many resources you can use to extend your learning from home. Various MyMaths activities have been set for this term. This is to allow children who like to do more to be able to. However, children do not have to complete all the MyMaths activities. One per week is our minimum recommendation.
- Reading books - we would like to remind everyone to have a reading book in school - this can be a school or home book. We want all children to be able to share recommendations and reviews of what we have read recently. We display books we've read in the classroom to get children talking about the stories they love and inspire others to try new titles.
- Reading records - All children should now have a grey reading record in which they can record how often they are reading. They will receive one raffle ticket if they read three times a week and two if they read more than five. At the end of each term, we will draw a raffle to win a trip to Costa. You have to be in it to win it! Activities in the reading records can be completed at home for fun!
Reading:
We are reading 'The Chronicles of Narnia' by C.S Lewis and using the following Designation Reader sentence stems to start our answers this term. We focus on different skills in each lesson: inferring, predicting, asking questions, evaluating, clarifying, summarising, and making connections.
Spellings:
Our spellings for this term are below. However, we are moving away from weekly tests, using more discreet learning techniques, and applying our spelling words across our curriculum.
Best wishes,
Year 5 Team
Miss Martin and Miss Perry
Learning as a family in Jesus, through Love, Hope, and Forgiveness.
Matthew 19:26: “With God all things are possible.”