Welcome to Year 5
at St Anne’s Primary School

Hello and welcome to Year 5.

Teacher - Mrs Leeson

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Gough

Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful relaxing break with your families. We cannot wait to get started on our Autumn Term 2 and the countdown to Christmas.

In Writing, we will be exploring ‘The Lost Happy Endings’.

In our English lessons we will be looking at the book ‘The Lost Happy Endings’. A fantastic and magical tale about what happens when, one night, a wicked witch steals the happy endings to bedtime stories. It is up to Jub, the keeper of the happy endings, to save the day and ensure sweet dreams everywhere in this lyrical story about storytelling. We will use the book to develop our writing skills and to focus on our use of noun phrases and dialogue in our writing. Finishing the unit, we will write our very own traditional tale.

In Reading, we will be exploring ‘Hansel and Gretel’.

In our reading lessons, we will be working on the book ‘Hansel and Gretel’. We will use this well loved traditional tale to focus on the author’s language choices and to identify themes throughout the story. We will also practise summarising ideas we read throughout the story.

Maths

Multiplication & Division

We will begin by recapping our work on multiples before moving onto prime numbers, square numbers and cube numbers. We will then work on multiplying and dividing numbers by 10, 100 and 1,000.

In RE we will cover our topic ‘Prophecy and Promise’, where we will continue to focus on the Old Testament and in particular David. We will listen to the story of ‘David and Goliath’ and then follow his journey to becoming King.

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

Other subjects

Science: Forces Geography: Our Blue Planet PE: Gymnastics

Computing: Sprites, events and game design

Spanish: Feelings Music: Future Yard Art: Viking Art

Important class information

PE day is on a Tuesday.