Year 5
Teachers - Miss Parkes (5P), Mrs Patel (Mon & Tues) & Mrs Ravat (Wed - Fri) (5PR), Miss Hardy (5H) and Mrs Patel (5H - Friday)
HLTA - Mrs Shaffi
Teaching Assistants - Mrs Zaman and Mrs Sheikh
Below is the SUMMER TERM overview - this covers everything that your child will be working on throughout the summer term in Year 5.
For the full year overview of all subjects covered across this year group, please click on the Long Term Plan link below:
Year 5 Long Term Plan 2024 - 2025
PARENTS' OVERVIEW - SUMMER TERM 2024/25 (downloadable doc)
PARENTS' OVERVIEW - SPRING TERM 2024/25 (downloadable doc)
PARENTS' OVERVIEW - AUTUMN TERM 2024/25 (downloadable doc)
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Maths |
During summer term year 5 children will learn about:
- Negative numbers and Roman Numerals
- Adding and subtracting large numbers including multistep problems
- Diagonals and problems involving angles
- Working with fractions
- Decimals and fractions
- Perimeter, area and scale drawing
- Percentages
- Problems involving percentages
- Addition and subtraction of money
- Long multiplication and division with remainders involving money
- Using tables and line graphs
Year 5 follow a progressive approach to maths where children are provided with experience of mathematical concepts in blocks of one or two weeks. Children will revisit these concepts throughout the year to ensure they have mastered the knowledge and understanding taught. We encourage the children to be independent learners in maths and utilise their Maths Toolkit to support their learning when required.
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Literacy |
Year 5 will begin summer term by reading a historical fiction text – ‘Street Child’ by Berlie Doherty where children will write in role as a Victorian child. Children will also have the opportunity to write and perform their own Haiku poems. We look forward to their performances! A newspaper report will also be written about the Oak’s Colliery Mining Disaster, where children can make links with their learning from the Victorian History topic they will cover. Finally, children will spend three weeks writing a story called ‘The Ridge’. This will give children the opportunity to showcase their new and improved writing skills learnt throughout the year. We can’t wait to read their stories and see how much progress they have made!
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PE Physical Education |
5PR and 5H literacy set will be developing their social and creative skills as part of their PE curriculum. This will require children to develop their organisational skills by sharing roles and responsibilities. Balance and counter balance skills will also be developed. Children will also have to show an awareness of space and others to make good decisions. Coordination and footwork skills will also be a focus.
5P literacy set will continue with their swimming lessons every Tuesday morning.
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Science |
Summer will begin with the children learning about forces. Children will learn how to: explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object; identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and frictions, that act between moving surfaces; and finally, they will learn how to recognise that some mechanisms including levers, pulleys and gears allow a smaller to have a greater effect.
Children will also have the opportunity to learn about Sir Isaac Newton and Galileo Galilei.
Year 5 will then learn about animals including humans. Children will learn about the human timeline and different life stages – birth to old age.
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Music |
Summer term will be a time for children to ‘Reflect, Rewind and Replay’. Children will listen to and appraise classical music. They will sing, play, improvise, compose and share their performances. The sounds along the Year 5 corridor will definitely be exciting!
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MFL Modern Foreign Languages |
Our Year 5 summer topic is ‘Shopping in France!’ Children will develop their French vocabulary by asking for items and quantities, numbers to 100 and beyond whilst working with Euros. Children will also develop an appreciation of a range of French writing.
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Computing |
Children will continue to use Purple Mash and the tool ‘2Connect’ to create a basic concept map. They will then use ‘2Connect story’ mode to create an information text linked to a history or geography topic studied this year - of their choice. Children will develop their word processing skills by inserting images whilst considering copyright consequences. Editing images, adding text and presenting using tables will also be explored.
Children will be introduced to the 2Design and Make tool and explore the effect of moving points when designing. They will then design a 3D model to fit certain design criteria before refining their design and printing ready to assemble to 3D.
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PSHE Personal Social Health Economic Education |
Our summer 1 unit is ‘Relationships.’ Children will learn strategies to build their own self-esteem and the positive and negative impact of online communities. Consequences of too much ‘screen time’ will also be explored.
Our summer 2 unit is ‘Changing Me.’ Children will learn about how bodies change and the importance of looking after both physical and emotional health and well-being. Children will think about changes they want to make for next year and strategies to achieve this.
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RE Religious Education |
Over the summer term, children will be exploring the big question:
Why do some people go on pilgrimage?
This unit explores the special journeys that people make, including pilgrimages and spiritual journeys as well as metaphorical journeys through faith. It looks at some well-known pilgrimage destinations and the stories associated with them. It explores why pilgrimages are undertaken and reflects on the sense of identity and belonging pilgrims may experience. It considers the sacrifices that people make in order to carry out the journeys and how these sometimes mystical or powerful experiences enrich people’s lives and give them new insights.
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Art and Design |
Painting & Mixed Media Portraits
This unit offers children the opportunities to develop skills in creating interesting portrait drawings using words, experimenting with materials and techniques and constructing self-portraits that represent aspects of themselves. This comprehensive unit enhances their understanding and application of art vocabulary and encourages thoughtful decisions in their artwork composition.
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DT Design Technology |
Cooking and Nutrition – ‘Developing a Recipe’ is the title of the DT topic. Children will adapt and improve a recipe, and learn about the importance of a healthy and balanced diet. Children will learn about where our food comes from and how it arrives on the supermarket shelves – farm to fork. Finally, children will have the opportunity to make a healthy halal spaghetti bolognaise. The importance of food hygiene will also be explored!
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History |
In this unit the children will be trying to answer our big question: Who wants to be a Victorian?
We will begin by placing the Victorian era in context and think about the Industrial Revolution, what this was and what impact it had in our local area of Batley and Dewsbury. The children will get to find out about key buildings in our local area and the role they played. We will empathise with the lives of Victorians; how did the lives of the rich and poor differ? The children will then get to see what life was like if you did the wrong thing and didn’t follow the Victorian rules… what punishment would they choose? We will be visiting the National Coal Mining Museum to give children a real-life experience of what it was like working in the mines. Children will be able to apply their experiences when considering the various roles children played down the mines. We will learn about some of the local disasters that occurred due to poor working conditions and lack of laws to protect those vulnerable in society. Children will reflect and consider whether life was good as a Victorian child… given a chance, would children swap lives with a Victorian child?
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Geography |
Two units of Geography were completed last term. History is the focus for summer term.
Year 5 will have the opportunity to develop their field work and map skills by taking part in a local area walk to investigate the effects of pollution in the local area.
Spelling
We follow a spelling programme provided by Spelling Shed. Children can then use the website to practise their weekly spellings choosing the level of support they need. Children will be given a weekly spelling test to consolidate their spellings.
The children can then use the website to practice their weekly spellings choosing the level of support they need. Each child in Year 5 has a copy of the spelling lists in their school book bag. They will be given a weekly spelling test to consolidate their spellings.
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Homework |
Every week, Year 5 children will be given homework on Friday (due in the following Wednesday):
- be given a maths activity, either linked to their learning that week or revisiting a previously taught skill
- be expected to read their reading book and get their reading record signed x3 weekly
- play on TTRockstars and Spelling Shed
- learn their weekly spellings (each week has a different list focus that the children have been practising in school that week)
Each half term, Year 5 children will:
- be set their black book homework tasks. They need to choose AT LEAST 3 activities to complete which will be shared with with their class and teacher. It could include art work, writing, computer presentations, 3D models, posters etc.
Summer 1:
You have been studying Forces in Science this half term. Choose at least 3 activities from the list below to complete over the half term and during the half term holidays (due in on Monday 2nd June).
You are going to share all your homework with your class mates and teacher. It could include art work, writing, computer presentations, 3D models,
posters etc. You will have to explain to the class what you have done.
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Year 5 Summer Term 1 2025 Homework Tasks |
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Create a rocket using a drinks bottle. You could google some instructions or ask your teacher to print some off for you. Explain the forces acting on it. |
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Research how to make different paper aeroplanes. Try flying them against each other. Which designs fly better? Why is this? |
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Try sliding across a smooth floor in your shoes. Now try to slide across it in socks. BE VERY CAREFUL! How does it change how you move? Explain why this happens. |
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Think about our lessons on air resistance or water resistance. Design a boat or a submarine that will move through the water quickest. What shapes to they need to be to help counteract water and air resistance? |
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https://www.science-sparks.com/make-a-hovercraft Follow the instructions on this link to make a hovercraft. |
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https://www.science-sparks.com/easy-paper-spinners Follow this link to create some paper spinners. Explain how air resistance helps them fall slowly. |
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Research how forces help a rocket to enter space. |
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GO OUTSIDE Fill a bucket with water and slowly spin it around. Can you spin it over your head without it spinning? Research why this happens. |
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Design your own invention using gears, levers and pulleys. How do these help your machine to move? |
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Visit the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. It’s free. Write down everything you can find out about forces. |
Summer 2:
You have been studying the Victorians in History this half term. Choose at least 3 activities from the list below to complete over the half term and during the February half term holiday (due Monday 7th July).
You are going to share all your homework with your class mates and teacher. It could include art work, writing, computer presentations, 3D models, posters etc. You will have to explain to the class what you have done.
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Year 5 Summer Term 2 2025 Homework Tasks |
| Use charcoal to create a drawing that is about the mines. It could be a drawing of a child worker or their family down the mine. You could draw a mining disaster… | |
| Research Kings and Queens from the past. Create a bar graph to compare the length of reign of Queen Victoria compared to other Kings and Queens. | |
| Design a Victorian themed menu. Think about the types of food that they ate. You could even have a go at baking/ cooking a recipe from your menu. Take a photo if possible or draw a picture of what you produced. | |
| Design and play a Victorian themed board game. Could you make your own version of monopoly? Instead of ‘Go to Jail’ it could be ‘Go to the Workhouse’! The money could look like Victorian currency… | |
| Research about one of our local mines. Create a fact file all about it. Were there any disasters? Can you find out about what it was like working there? Can you find out about any individuals? | |
| Draw/ trace 2 types of Victorian transport and compare. Create a list of items which we use now that were also used by the Victorians. | |
| Design your own miniature Victorian stamp. | |
| Create an outdoor game that children could have played in the Victorian times. Make sure you explain the game/ write the rules/ draw a picture to explain. You could even try to make any equipment that they might need (in miniature/ small version). | |
| Write an acrostic for the Victorians using these letters: VICTORIANS or your own word that links with the topic. | |
| Create a timetable for a Victorian school day. Can you show some examples of the work the children would have done? | |
| Write a diary entry as either a rich or poor Victorian. What would they have done during the day? Make sure you empathise with the character to let the reader know how they are feeling about their life… | |
| Use the Internet to research where the local mines are in Yorkshire. Draw a map of the local area and annotate to show their Geography location compared to where you live. Are they near/ far? |