Year 5 is a year of exciting, new challenges and memorable experiences.  As pupils move further through Key Stage Two, we encourage independence, resilience, responsibility, and leadership, helping every child to grow in confidence and feel fully prepared for the next chapter of their education.

In Year 5, children build upon and refine their skills in reading, writing, and mathematics through engaging lessons, thought-provoking discussions, and practical problem-solving opportunities. They explore high-quality texts, undertake extended writing across a range of genres, and tackle increasingly complex mathematical concepts and investigations. Beyond the core subjects, our broad and balanced curriculum offers enriching learning experiences in science, history, geography, and many other areas, fostering curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking.

We look forward to working in partnership with families to make Year 5  a rewarding, memorable, and successful year for every child.

Our curriculum includes:

• English, where pupils study a wide range of high-quality and increasingly challenging texts. Children develop their skills in writing narratives, reports, balanced arguments, persuasive texts, formal letters, diary entries, biographies, newspaper reports and poetry. They build their understanding of vocabulary, grammar and punctuation, whilst applying ambitious spelling patterns and editing skills to write effectively for different audiences and purposes.
• Mathematics, where children develop fluency, reasoning and problem-solving skills across all areas of the National Curriculum. Pupils deepen their understanding of place value, the four operations, fractions, decimals, percentages, ratio and proportion, algebra, geometry, statistics and measurement. They are encouraged to explain their mathematical thinking, make connections between concepts and apply their knowledge to real-life contexts, whilst becoming increasingly confident and accurate with key number facts and multiplication tables.
• Science: Carrying out engaging investigations and experiments, exploring topics such as forces, properties and materials, animals including humans, earth and space and living things and their habitats.
• History: Developing an understanding of the past through in-depth studies of significant events, including Vikings, Tudors and the Greeks.
• Geography: Investigating a European physical region, the Paris Basin, fieldwork looking at rivers and exploring the climate and settlement of Greece and Athens.  
• Art and Design: Expressing creativity through a range of artistic techniques, including investigating how drawing can express emotion, movement and depth and exploring how artists use space, scale and materials to create sculpture.
• Music: Building confidence in performing, composing and listening to music, while developing an appreciation of different musical styles and traditions.
• Physical Education (PE): Promoting health, fitness and wellbeing through a variety of sports and physical activities that encourage teamwork, resilience and self-confidence.
• Italian: where children develop their conversational language through topics such as: reading and writing the date, asking about pets, talking about their home and clothes.

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Living Our Catholic Faith:

Faith is at the heart of life in Year 5 and in our school community. We begin and end each day with prayer and encourage children to live out Gospel values through kindness, respect, compassion, and service to others. Throughout the year, children explore the Jesuit virtues of being Curious and Active, Intentional and Prophetic, Grateful and Generous, Attentive and Discerning, Compassionate and Loving, and Faith-filled and Hopeful. [

In Religious Education, children deepen their understanding of God's plan through topics such as Creation and Covenant, Prophecy and Promise, Galilee to Jerusalem, Desert to Garden, Ends of the Earth, and Dialogue and Encounter. They learn more about Scripture, develop their knowledge of the Catholic faith, and reflect on how they can follow Jesus' example in their daily lives.

Children celebrate the liturgical seasons of the Church, participate in school Masses, prayer services, and feast day celebrations, and mark important events throughout the Church year, including Advent, Christmas, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost. Through worship, reflection, and acts of service, children grow in faith and learn the importance of belonging to God's family.

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A Message from the Year 5 Teachers:

“We are delighted to welcome you to Year 5. We look forward to working closely with families to ensure every child enjoys a successful, rewarding and faith-filled year. Together, we will help our pupils grow academically, socially, emotionally and spiritually, enabling them to become confident learners and compassionate members of our school community.”

"Let all that you do be done in love." (1 Corinthians 16:14)

Mrs Kendrick and Miss O’Brien

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How Parents Can Support at Home:

Your support makes a huge difference to your child’s learning. Here are some ways to help your child succeed in Year 5:

• Read together regularly and discuss new vocabulary, characters, and events in books.
• Practise times tables and number facts little and often to build confidence and fluency.
• Support spelling practice and encourage the use of new words in everyday writing.
• Encourage writing at home through letters, stories, diary entries, postcards, or fact files.
• Talk about learning and ask your child to explain what they have been studying in school.
• Explore the world together by visiting local places, discussing current events, and noticing geography, history, and nature around you.
• Celebrate effort and resilience by praising perseverance, independence, and a positive attitude to learning.
• Share and nurture faith at home through prayer, exploring the prayer bag, attending Mass, discussing Gospel values, and talking about what your child has learned in Religious Education.

Together, we can help every child grow in confidence, achieve their potential and enjoy a successful year in Year 5.