Welcome to Year 5
at St Anne’s Primary School

Hello and welcome to Year 5.

Teacher - Mrs Leeson

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Gough

Happy New Year! We hope you and your families had a magical Christmas and wish you all the best for 2026 :) We are looking forward to the year ahead.

In Writing, we will be exploring ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’.

In our English lessons we will be looking at the book ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’. In this book, we will follow the epic journey of Arthur, and travel back to the age of the Vikings where this bookish young adventurer must find the courage to save his village and defeat the mighty beast Fenrir. We will focus on sentence construction in our writing by looking at noun phrases and relative clauses whilst also learning about the important role commas make to meaning. We will complete the unit by writing our very own myths.

In Reading, we will be exploring ‘Odd and the Frost Giants’.

In our reading lessons, we will be working on the book ‘Odd and the Frost Giants’. We will use this story to practise our reading skills including using intonation and we will explore the characters and their actions.

Maths

Fractions

We will begin the year by working on fractions. We will recap on unit and non-unit fractions before moving onto equiavelent fractions and converting between improper fractions and mixed numbers. We will then finish our learning by adding and subtracting fractions.

In RE we will cover our topic ‘Galilee to Jersualem’, where we will begin by looking at the Beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount and we will consider the impact Jesus has on our own lives. We will learn about St Josephine Bakhita and how her life was transformed through Jesus. We will complete our learning by discussing the transfiguration and focusing on our very special prayer, the ‘Our Father’.

In RE, Year 5 will continue our new scheme of work ‘Vine and Branches’.