Year 5 2024 - 2025

Welcome to the Year 5 Class Page

Our Year 5 Class Teachers are:

Mrs Burtoft (5B) and Miss Gibson (5G).

Our LSA is Mrs Crowe

Our 1:1s are:  Mrs Kerrigher, Mrs Kirkham, Miss Joblin, Mrs Clarke.

5B have PE on: Thursday.

5G have PE on: Tuesday.

Swimming is each Friday Morning.

We test spellings on a Friday.

We test times tables once a week. 

Our homework is to read to an adult at home 5 times per week and practise our times tables and spellings in order to ensure we make the best possible progress during our time in Year 5. 

We encourage children to access TTRockstars to help them learn their times tables. We also run weekly TTRockstars sessions in school.

Click here to download our long term plan

Autumn Term

History - The Victorians

Geography - Map Skills

Science - Living things and their habitats

Science - Animals, including humans

Music - Learning to play the recorder using standard notation

Art - Art Nouveau

DT – Sewing

Spring Term

History - Our Local Area (Doncaster and Mining)

Geography - Doncaster and the UK

Science - Space

Art - Industrial Artists 

DT - Mechanisms

Summer Term

History - The Windrush

Geography – Trade and famous explorers

Science - Properties and changes of materials 

Science - Forces 

Art - Renaissance and Baroque (Drawing and Painting Portraits) 

DT - Cooking and Nurtrition