Welcome to Year 5

Ant and Mayfly are our Year 5 classes at the Isle of Ely Primary School. From this page you will be able to read about our curriculum each half term and all the work we get up to in and out of the classroom.

Who works in our classroom?

 

Mrs Jo Branson                 Mrs Berrill                      Mrs Del Grazia

  

 

In Year 5 class this term, we will be learning:

Subject

Unit of Work

English

This term, we will be focusing on the fictional story, Tom Macbeth. This text focuses on dialogue, exploring how characters interact, their actions and their reactions.

We will be exploring many different areas in detail, such as:

  • How speech is structured in a text.
  • Alternating the speaker before or after the speech.
  • Using adverbs to describe characters speech alongside their actions or movement.
  • How characters discuss other characters.
  • How the listener’s react.

By the end of the unit children will produce their own Mystery Story using these many features.

For our non-fiction text, we will be looking at Catastrophes and using it to produce our own information text.

Maths

This term, the children will be covering many different areas of maths, including:

  • Reading and writing decimals above and below 1, to 2 and 3 decimal places.
  • Equivalent fractions and decimals
  • Thousandths as fractions and decimals
  • Comparing and ordering decimals
  • Rounding
  • Percentages

Science

This term, we will be looking at forces, learning about water and air resistance, levers and pulleys.

History

This term, we will be focusing on the French Revolution, learning about inequalities in French society and how they led to the revolution.

Geography

This term, the children will be looking at the continent and countries of Australia.

Physical Education

This Term, the children will be exploring Fitness and Gymnastics. Please make sure your children come into school in their PE kits on Wednesday and Friday, bringing plenty of water and weather appropriate clothes.

Religious Education

This term, the children will be focussing on Hinduism

Spanish

Pupils will continue to build their Spanish vocabulary.

Personal, Social and Health Education

This term, the children will be focusing on Healthy Me – learning about smoking, alcohol, body image and how we can be influenced by the media.

Design & Technology

This term, the children will be looking at cooking, making honey cake and pitta breads.

Art

This term, we will study Chinese calligraphy and painting.

Computing

This term, the children will be databases.

Music

This term, we will be focusing on Beethoven’s, Eroica.

 

Our Class Text is:

Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston

 

 

Knowledge Organisers

At the Isle of Ely Primary School, we use knowledge organisers as a tool to help our children learn more and remember more and to allow parents and carers to support their children's learning. In our knowledge organisers, you will find essential knowledge, key dates, important vocabulary and key figures. The knowledge organisers can also be used as a fun assessment tool which will help children to see the progress they have made.

 

Spanish

Science

Music

History

Geography

Art

 

What have we been up to?

w/c 10.03.25

It has been a challenging, but successful week for students in year 5, as they have worked really hard doing assessments in English and maths. We are marking as quick as we can, so look out for assessment papers coming home.  We find it really beneficial for pupils to go through these with parents at home.
Pupils have also continued learning about Chinese art and have painted cherry blossoms or orchids on rice paper.  In history, they have learnt about the French revolution and in Geography, they identified the major settlements in Australia. Pupils have also learnt about and made paper databases in computing and practiced putting each other into the recovery position in PSHE.
Our spellings this week are homophones.

 

W/C 03.03.25

What a fabulous week the children have had, showing off their skills in Bikeability. We have been very proud to hear from the teachers that the children were a credit to the school! Whilst not on a bike, the children have written and published their own "character flaw, prophecy story", focusing on writing dialogue. They have worked with percentages in maths, converting fractions to percentages and vice versa. 

 

w/c 24/02/2025

The children have written amazing innovations in English, using the dialogue toolkit we have compiled.  In maths, pupils have been comparing and ordering numbers up to 3 decimal places. We began work on Australia in Geography and in History learnt about French society in the 1780’s. The children have really enjoyed using real Chinese ink sticks and brushes to paint bamboo and attempt Chinese calligraphy.