Year 5
Welcome letter and curriculum overview
year 5 curriculum map 2026 2027.pdf
Welcome to Year 5T and 5W
Dear parents and Carers,
We are absolutely delighted to welcome you and all the children to Year 5. It's going to be a fantastic year filled with exciting learning opportunities, memorable experiences and lots of fun.
PE is taking place on a Thursday this half term. Children need to come to school wearing their school PE kit on these days. If your child cannot remove their own earrings please make sure they are not worn to school on a Thursday. Long hair should be tied up on these days.
5T are also going swimming on a Monday afternoon. 5W will be going swimming from February onwards.
All children have a login for Edshed. This is where they will find their weekly spelling and maths homework. Spellings will be send home on a Monday and tested in school on a Friday.
TT Rockstars should also be used regularly at home.
All children are expected to be reading 5 times in a week. Reading diaries need to be signed and bought in to school everyday.
Let's celebrate our certificate recepients!!!
On Friday 23rd November the theme of our awards was :
Writing Wonders
Well done to Japheth from 5W and Charlie from 5T for being this weeks well deserved champions.
Curtis in 5W was this weeks TTRS champion. Sphinx class (5T) were the best performing class in the school.
5W were awarded the attendance cup for having the highest attendance across the school last week.
What's coming up?
On Monday 2nd November 5T Children need to bring their swimming kit as usual for swimming lessons and bring an old t-shirt and shorts to go over their swim kit. This is for children to participate in water safety skills session at swimming. Thankyou very much, Miss Thorne
We have some amazing things planned for this year. Details will be shared with you before things happen - so keep an eye out!
We are looking forward to a trip to Highwoods Country Park
This Term's Learning Focus
History: This term we will be learning all about the Ancient Greeks. In our DT lessons we will be tasting and making Greek Food.
Guided Reading
Our focus book is 'Who let the Gods Out?' Through this text, children will develop the skills of retrieval, inference, prediction, explaining and summarising.
In our Guided Reading sessions we have enjoyed reading using echo and choral reading strategies.
Maths
We will be working on key areas including:
- Place Value
- Multiplication and division
Science
Our science topic this half term is:
- Space
We will be learning about all things Space related.
DT
In DT we will be learning all about Greek food. We will be tasting different foods and cooking a variety of Greek dishes.
PE - THIS WILL NOW BE TAKING PLACE ON A WEDNESDAY
In PE we will be learning how to play squash. Children will receive coaching from the Off the Wall Squash coaches. We will be visiting the Garrison to play on their Squash courts in December. 5T will be continuing with their swimming lessons.
RSHE
We have been learning about marriage, friendships and diversity. Children have been excellent at participating in class discussions in lessons.
Workshop and Special Events
On Wednesday 16th September Year 5 took part in a Road Safety Workshop. The children learnt all about how to keep themselves safe when out and about - particularly near roads and traffic. They then went outside to look for dangers and learn more about staying save whilst outside.
HALF TERM SCIENCE PROJECT
Over the October half term we would like the children to do some research for our Science topic of space.
NEW COMEPTITION
In assembly 18.9.26 all the children were told about a new competition we are launching. We are encouraging all children to log in and use TT Rockstars regularly. Each week there will an award for effort, achievement or progress linked to TT Rockstars. Please encourage your child to log in and get involved.
Art competition- Create a picture based on showing 'friendships' and have this handed in and form completed, thankyou.
GREEK FOOD TASTING
. On Friday 18th September children took part in a Greek Food tasting afternoon. The children tasted figs, feta cheese, pitta bread and olives. Each food was evaluated for appearance, smell, texture and taste. Everybody enjoyed the afternoon and many children tried foods they had not even eaten before. Some children even discovered a new favourite food!
On Friday 23rd November children put their skills to the test and made some Greek food. They made Greek salad filled pitta breads and Greek fruit kebabs.
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Thank you!
Thank you for your continued support. We're looking forward to a brilliant year ahead with your children!
If you have any concerns or queries please do not hesitate to contact us using the year 5 email address:
year5@hazelmere-jun.essex.sch.uk
Warm regards,
The Year 5 Team- 5T and 5W
Miss Thorne and Miss Windsor