Year 5 2023 - 2024

Meet the Team

5G - Mr Grant, Mr Walliker and DHN staff  

5S - Miss Spence and Miss Jafar

French and Music will be taught by Mme Lié  and Miss Osborne

If you have any questions, please speak to one of our Year 5 staff or email year5@almapark.manchester.sch.uk

Welcome

Welcome to Year 5! In Year 5, we look forward to taking on new challenges and celebrating our successes together, developing as independent, hardworking and passionate learners, ready to take on Year 6.

Here, you can find an overview of the Year 5 Curriculum. You can use this information to discuss with your child what they have learned and continue to support their learning at home.

This half term:

Maths:

• Geometry - estimating and measuring angles using a protractor accurately
• Geometry - recognising regular and irregular polygons
• Geometry - reading and plotting coordinates, translation of shapes and reflection 

English:

Talk for Writing unit: a Warning tale

• Use 3 verbs for action
• Use show not tell features
• Use a variety of sentence openers
• Use speech to move a story on 

 
History: The Vikings

We will focusing on the impact the Vikings had on their arrival to Britain, their achievements, society and daily life.

Knowledge Organiser

Science: Life Cycles

We will be investigating the life cylces of plants and different animals and how these are different and similar

Knowledge Organiser

DT: Mechanisms - Cams 

We will be investigating how cam mechanisms work and designing and creating a moving toy for a specific audience

Knowledge Organiser

Computing: We are Game Developers

We will be looking at how to use Scratch to design our own online game

Religious Education:

What matters most to Christians and Humanists?

PHSE: Digital resilience.

We are going to focusing on what it means to be in a safe relationship and starting our Growing and Chaging topic

French:

We are improving our French language skills. We will be learning about adjectives that precede the noun and adverbs of place.

P.E:

Remember to come into school wearing your PE kit on the following days.

• Gymnastics - Wednesday

            Kit: Black shorts or tight-fitting black leggings and a plain white t-shirt.

Outdoor Games - 5G - Monday

                             5S - Friday

We are learning tennis.

Kit: Trainers, black shorts or tight-fitting black leggings, and a plain white t-shirt (a tracksuit top and joggers may be worn if cold)

Forest Schools:

We will be learning a new skills this half term. Look out for parentmail to let you know when the next session will be.

Reading:

In class we are currently reading Clockwork, by Philip Pullman.

Please read with your child every day and comment in their reading record when you do. Reading books should be in school everyday for independent reading and can be changed any day:

Homework: 

This half term's BrainBuilder can be found here

Year 5's spellings will be sent out every Friday to learn for a spelling test the following Friday. 

TTRockstars – click here