Year 5 2025 - 2026
Mrs Deakin
Mrs McDonnell
Mrs Higginson
Love Learning, Love Life
Always Aiming High
Our School Rules: Ready, Respectful, Safe
To contact Mrs McDonnell or Mrs Higginson, please email: Year5@elton.cheshire.sch.uk
Year 5 Staff:
Mrs McDonnell (Class Teacher)
Mrs Higginson (Class Teacher)
Miss Russell (TA)
Mrs Deakin (HLTA - class cover)
Autumn Term
Topic: Rebel, Rebel!
Welcome back to your first term as Year 5:
Welcome back to school after the summer break. I hope you had a lovely, restful 6 weeks, and are ready to learn! Mrs Higginson will be teaching you on a Monday and Mrs McDonnell Tuesday to Friday! We will also have Miss Russell to support us in the morning and Mrs Deakin will teach you two afternoons a week.
So what’s in store?
English
In English we will start by studying the beautifully illustrated story Queen of the falls by Chris Van Allsburg. Our primary focus will be reading and writing recounts and producing our own diaries from different viewpoints inspired by the characters in the book. After half term, we will move onto looking at traditional tales using another beautiful book as inspiration - Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘The Lost Happy Endings’. We will focus on exploring different characters’ viewpoints and rewriting traditional tales in exciting ways. We will also read ‘Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls’, and ‘Hansel and Gretel’ by Neil Gaiman in Reading sessions.
Autumn 1 = Queen of the Falls by Chris Van Allsburg
Autumn 2 = The Lost Happy Endings by Carol Ann Duffy
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Reading
In reading we will be focusing on diffferent texts and will be using our skills to draw inferences and comparisons from different texts. We will then be moving onto looking further into language choices, themes and conventions across a text and summarising skills.
Autumn 1 = Rebel girls by Ellena Favilli
Autumn 2 = Hansel and Gretel by Neil Gaiman
Maths
We will start the year focusing on place value of numbers up to 1 million, following which we will go onto study addition and subtraction. We will progress to looking at square, cube and prime numbers in multiplication and division, as well as finding out what happens to a number when we multiply/divide it by 10, 100 or 1,000. Finally, we will begin a unit on fractions, looking at adding, subtracting, comparing and ordering.
For further details regarding the curriculum please see the Autumn learning leaflet attached below.
Reading
As always, reading is the cornerstone of all learning. We recommend reading a wide range of texts both at home and at school, this includes your child’s school reading book and their own personal reading books. Whilst lots of our children will, by now, be reading independently, it is still vitally important that you listen to your child read. We expect children to be reading daily. Please make sure that you are listening to your child read and recording this in their reading record. Children can record their own reading in their record, but an adult needs to sign this to confirm that they have read. You must bring your reading book and record every day, as we may choose you to read with us or with parent volunteers. Reading records will be collected in and checked on Tuesdays and Fridays, and children can earn raffle tickets which go towards a reward for reading at home.
PE
PE will be on a Monday and Thursday so please make sure that you have the correct school PE kit in school. Trainers are only necessary for PE lessons/break times if needed. At all other times, black school shoes should be worn please.
Uniform
Correct uniform should be worn at all times please. This is a school jumper/cardigan, or one in a similar colour, a white polo neck top, grey skirt, shorts or trousers and black shoes (not trainers). For PE, this is a white top, white or black shorts and trainers or pumps. Jogging bottoms or leggings can be brought in for colder weather, but please try to make sure they are black, navy or grey. Please ensure all uniform and water bottles are named, and that water bottles are taken home and cleaned daily.
Homework and spellings
There will be two pieces of homework set each week. Our Maths and Learning Log homework will be given out on a Friday and will be due in on a Wednesday. Occasionally, we may give out a piece of homework that lasts for a longer period, such as a mini-project. Spelling lists will also be sent home at the beginning of a half term and are to be practised each week. It is important that you take the time to learn the spellings as it will impact your English work. In addition to this, you will also have access to Times Tables Rockstars which you can continue to use at home on a weekly basis.
We look forward to seeing you all soon, any questions please ask!
Mrs McDonnell and Mrs Higginson
Things to remember:
PE kits (black shorts/white t-shirt/trainers or pumps/tracksuit for colder weather)- EVERYDAY AS WE HAVE PE twice a week and sometimes activities pop up
Reading books and records—EVERYDAY
Water bottles—EVERYDAY
Homework—WEDNESDAY
Reading records will be checked on Tuesdays and Fridays
Links:
Elton Primary School and Nursery Twitter
Files to Download
Year 5: News items
Last Day before Summer Holidays, by Mrs Clark
Sports Day, by Mrs Clark
June Parent/Carer Forum Newsletter, by Mrs Clark
