Welcome to the Year 5 page. Here you will find information about Year 5 and weekly updates. Enjoy!
Hello and welcome to Year 5! On this page you should find all you need to know about Year 5. If not, let me know and I'll try to find out the answer.
Every day, remember a clear, named water bottle, a named PE kit with a House colour t-shirt, weather appropriate clothing (such as a spare change of trousers and shoes for all the OPAL fun), a current reading book (either from home or school) and an enthusiastic attitude to learning.
Good attendance is essential this year as we cover so much each day and need to constantly build on previous learning.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to arrange a meeting with me.
Looking forward to a great year, filled with laughter, learning and respect.
Mrs Brock
2nd Autumn 2026 Year 5 The Monarchy.pdf
Read moreFind out what learning we are doing this term.
Read lessThis shows the coverage for this term's RE.
2026 Autumn 2nd RE what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-muslim-in-britain-today.pdf
Term 1 DONE!!! Well done Year 5, what a term! Thank you to all the parents who came to parents' evening and topic celebration, always great to see you and celebrate the children's achievements. This week, we have completed our own persuasive pitch, finished our wire fish, displayed our work in the hall and investigated 3d nets.
Have an outstanding half term and I look forward to seeing you, refreshed and ready, on Monday 2nd November.
Assessment week - DONE! Great to see resilience, determination and such relief when the last assessment was finished. Having a Hello Yellow day was perfectly timed. We are beginning to play a tune on the clarinet and I think the children are surprising themselves with their ability to make a noise, not necessarily the rest of the school! We completed some "rubbish" sketching which you can see on display in the hall. Thank you to the parents who have booked a meeting next week. If you are not able to make it, please arrange another time that is convenient. Next week, we have Maths Whizz, Harvest Festival and completing our extended write. During half term, please search out swimming kits as our sessions start on Tuesday 3rd November weekly until Tuesday 8th December.
Have a sparkling weekend, looking forward to the last week of our first term.
So pleased to see the children really enthusiastic about our topic "Our Blue Planet." We presented our persuasive pitches to Mr Matt Hinton, local councillor, to see what his thoughts were. He was blown away! The children presented well, having completed lots of research, thought about their audience and delivered passionately. We wait to hear what Mr Hinton suggests for improving the environment in Chiseldon. We have finished our place value unit in maths and the children excelled at the end of unit quiz, well done. Make sure that learning sticks! We worked really hard to produce three notes on the clarinets and the children showed resilience and determination - definitely not easy. Next week is our assessment week, giving opportunities for the children to show what they have remembered and are able to apply. We have a Fire Safety workshop on Monday and Friday is Hello Yellow Day.
Enjoy the weekend, ensure you rest and are ready to smash next week!
Blooming Bowood and taramasalata/tzatziki tasting, all going on in Year 5! Credit to all of you for your behaviour on our trip - the children were so engaged, polite and had a fabulous time. We were shown so much, from inside parts of a flower to the fossil cave. We are continuing with Our Blue Planet topic, creating chalk fish inspired by Alexander Calder and arranging nature to make underwater creatures. Our maths has been focussed on negative numbers, German was expressing opinions about music and we finished the week with a great Greek day, learning some phrases, dancing the Zorba, tasting food and designing our own Ancient Greek Gods.
Enjoy the weekend and plant any seeds from Bowood.
Looking back on this week, it has been packed. Have a look at the persuasive posters linked to our topic Our Blue Planet. The coral pictures are stunning and our place value has taken us to a million! Next week we look forward to a science day on Thursday at Bowood House and Gardens and Friday we celebrate European Languages, especially Greece. Dig out your blue and white clothes to match the flag.
Enjoy the weekend, ensuring some down time.
Week one done! I have asked the children to suggest what should go on the class page and this is what they wanted to include. We supported Chance to Shine Cricket at Marlborough Cricket Club where the children enjoyed a fully engaging session with Vickie and Aled. For our sentence stacking for a persuasive pitch, we researched some hard hitting statistics about Our Blue Planet and plastic pollution. As part of Our Blue Planet topic we spend time designing a coral picture in art. We started the clarinet and we were so impressed that anyone was able to make a sound, heard by all the school! Our Mystery Box inspired us to write a range of genres, including interviews, narratives and newspaper articles. We have completed some assessments in maths and have been working on place value to a million.
School photos, reconnecting with friends, settling back into routines, changes in lunchtimes, Father Roger's assembly and other visitors have made this week fly by. By now, the children should have given you the letter about our trip to Bowood on Thursday 24th September. Please return the completed consent slip and payment, school bank details to follow.
Have a great weekend.
Hello everyone, hope you have enjoyed a fabulous break! We have an exciting and interesting topic this term, Our Blue Planet. It will be great to see you all, back with friends, into routines and expanding our knowledge together. Check out the information on this page and please suggest anything else you would like to see on here. Please talk to me if there is anything I can help with, looking forward to a great year!
Homework is important to support the learning that happens in class. We recommend at least 20 minutes daily reading of a good quality text. Please encourage reading for pleasure and discuss what the children have liked about the text they are reading. An adult needs to sign at least once a week as reading aloud is still relevant for intonation and fluency.
Giving opportunities for daily in depth discussions, using oracy words or areas of interest. Use the image below for inspiration and let me know how the discussions go, especially number 22!
Weekly spellings are to be completed three times a week using the look, say, cover, write, check method in homework books. Once they have got the spelling correct, they do not need to complete the following boxes. Spelling Bee words are on the webpage to allow plenty of time to consolidate them.
Homework books need to be in every Friday please for new spellings to be given. Any concerns about homework, please arrange a meeting with me to discuss.
Follow the link for the Autumn Spelling Bee words.
If your child would like to enter, they need to achieve a score of 35 correct to get through to the Bee! This will be held at the end of term so get practising!
How many can you read this year?
YR5-Performance-of-Writing-Framework.pdf
These are the expectations for writing by the end of Year 5, over a range of examples.
This gives you an idea of the vast amount of learning we do in Year 5!
Good morning Mr Allen,
I just wanted to say what a fantastic programme this is, Olivia has been telling us all about the hippocampus, including what it does and where it is! It gave us a good laugh when she brought it up at the dinner table the other night.
Kind regards,
Dan M
