Year 5 2024 - 2025

Meet the Team

5G - Mr Grant, Ms Jafar and Mrs Knight

5S - Miss Spence and Miss Watt

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:

• Multiplication and division - find factors, prime, square and cube numbers up to 100
• Fractions - find equivalent fractions, convert improper and mixed fractions, order and compare fractions and add and subtract fractions

English:

Talk for Writing unit: Stories from another culture

• Use subordinate clauses to add detail
• Use descriptive language to descripbe characters and settings  
• Use a variety of sentence openers
• Use dialogue between characters with powerful verbs

 
Geography: Angry Earth

We will focusing on the layers of the Earth, tectonic plates and how these cause natural disasters 

Knowledge Organiser

Science: Forces

We will be investigating the different forces such as air and water resistance and how these impact on an object.

Knowledge Organiser

Art: Typography  

We will be exploring the visual art of creating and arranging letters and words on a page to help communicate ideas or emotions

Knowledge Organiser

Computing: Digital Literacy - We are Cryptogrophers.

We will be looking at how to communicate in different ways, being able to encrypt and decrypt messages.

Religious Education:

Why do some people believe God exists?

PHSE: Safe relationships.

We are going to focusing on respecting ourselves and others.

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.

• Dance - Wednesday
  
  We are learning how to move rhythmically to music creating a line dance.

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

• Outdoor Games - Thursday

We are learning all about handball. 

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 making traps using levers and pulleys to catch a pesky thief.

Reading:

In class we are currently finishing Kensuke's Kingdom, by Michael Morpurgo. We will then go on to read There's a boy in the girls' bathroom, by Louis Sacher.

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.