Year 5

Welcome to Year 5's Class Page!

You will be able to use this page to find our weekly homework and see what we have been learning in class.

Our PE days are Monday and Wednesdays so please wear your St John's PE kits on those days.

Year 5 Spellings

Spellings are taught and practised throughout each week. We refer to the statutory word lists for years 5 and 6 (revisit years 3 and 4 list) but mostly use the words linked with our English units. The words and their derivatives will be referred to, used and tested informally instead of being part of weekly tests.

Latest spelling focus words: correspond marvellous  occupy  sincere(ly) signature  soldier

These KS2 spellings linked to our current writing topic also include derivatives. For example: occupy will also include occupation, occupied, unoccupied...


Here are the previous focus words: ancient, competition, lightning, mischievous, relevant, loud/allowed, be/bee, die/dye, hear/here, of/off, morning/mourning, no/know, reign/rain, time/thyme, too/to, week/weak, ascent/assent, descend/dissent, allowed/aloud, aisle/isle, led/lead, complement/compliment, weary/wary, morning/mourning, steal/steel, advice/advise, malign, sovereign, ghoul, whistle, island, isle, debris, correspond, interfere, mischievous, sincere(ly), signature, twelfth, yacht, according, curiosity, familiar, identity, immediate(ly), leisure, recommend, suggest, innocent, decent, frequent, confident, obedient and independent, adorable, applicable, considerable, tolerable, changeable, noticeable, forcible, legible

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Year 5 curriculum themes for the Summer term 2025

This term of English work will be based around books about the life of Anne Frank and the children of Benin. The children will be developing their writing skills by producing a range of writing for different purposes and outcomes, including newspaper articles, diary entries, reports and narratives.

In Maths, we begin the term by completing our work on statistics then moving on to geometry where we will be developing our knowledge and understanding of 2D and 3D shapes, position and direction; decimals; negative numbers; converting units of measure and finally exploring volume of shapes.

Space is our focus for Science for the start of this term, learning about our solar system, Earth and its moon, moving on to Animals including humans to conclude our year 5 learning.

In RE we begin by learning about the 'Kingdom of God' and asking what kind of king Jesus is, then we shall be looking at other religions and considering the topic of 'inspiring people'. 

This term’s topic work:
Geography – developing our learning about our blue planet; 
Music – Motown (Dancing in the Street); 
History – completing the legacy of the ancient Greeks then returning to these shores to learn about life in Tudor England (2nd half term); 
Computing – creating media then programming; 
PE – equipment gymnastics (inside) and tennis, athletics and rounders (outside); 
Art – sculpture and installation (1st half term); 
DT – paper mechanics (2nd half term); 
PSHE – relationships and ‘changing me’; 
Spanish – months and dates, habitats.