Year 5 2025 - 2026
Mrs Deakin
Mrs McDonnell
Miss Gibson
Mrs Harland
Love Learning, Love Life
Always Aiming High
Our School Rules: Ready, Respectful, Safe
To contact Mrs McDonnell or Mrs Harland, please email: Year5@elton.cheshire.sch.uk
Year 5 Staff:
Mrs McDonnell (Class Teacher)
Mrs Harland (Class Teacher)
Miss Gibson (TA)
Mrs Deakin (HLTA - class cover)
Miss Russell (TA)
Summer Term
Topic: One World
Welcome back to the Summer term…
We hope you had a lovely break over Easter and are ready and raring to get going on our final term in Year 5! There’s still so much to do, so I hope you’re looking forward to getting started! We still have Miss Gibson, Mrs Deakin and Miss Russell working with us!
So, what’s in store...
Inside this leaflet you will glean an outline of some of the exciting learning that will take place during our new topic, One World. This topic will be led by our English text, ‘The Paperbag Prince’, about an elderly man who lives in a landfill site. We will also be finding out about pollution, recycling and renewable energy through our Guided Reading and P4C lessons. PE this half term will be on a Monday and Friday (outdoors weather permitting/wherever possible)—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, school shoes should be worn please. We have had lots of incidents of uniform and PE kit which are not named being left in the classroom. We know how expensive school uniform can be, especially with the current financial climate, and would like to be able to return lost items to their rightful owners. Please ensure that ALL uniform and PE kit are named, including shoes!
So what’s in store?
English
During the first half term, we will be focussing on persuasive writing, creating a leaflet which expresses our opinions. Our mastery skills for this will be: using modal verbs to indicate degrees of possibility, building cohesion within our writing, using parenthesis punctuated with brackets, commas and dashes, and using a wide range of vocabulary. After half term we move onto fictional writing, writing a story based around our book ‘The Hunter’. Our mastery skills for this will be: using relative clauses, using adverbs and adverbials, improving our cohesive writing through use of conjunctions, using modal verbs, verb tenses, adverbials, and linking ideas together using tense choices. We will continue to develop our comprehension and inferential skills in guided reading and as a whole class share a range fiction and non-fiction texts. Throughout, spelling, punctuation and handwriting remain a priority in all our work.
Summer 1 = The Paper Bag Prince by Colin Thompson
Summer 2 = The Hunter by Paul Geraghty
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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.
Summer 1 = Pollution: a look behind the scences by the Literacy Company
Summer 2 = African Tales by Rachel Griffin
Maths
We will begin the term by looking at geometry. Here we will be finding area and perimeter, discussing 2D and 3D shapes, comparing and naming angles, drawing and measuring angles, and finding missing angles. After half term, we will move on to measure—finding mass and capacity and converting between different units of measurement. We will also look at line graphs in statistics, reflections and rotations in position and direction, before looking at negative numbers.
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 Friday 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
Learning Log homework and Maths will continue to be given out on a Friday and should be returned on a Wednesday.
We look forward to seeing you all soon, any questions please ask.
Mrs McDonnell and Mrs Harland
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 Easter Holidays, by Mrs Clark
March Parent Carer Forum Newsletter, by Mrs Clark
Year 1 and 2 Cake Sale, by Mrs Clark
