Elm Class (Year 5)
Welcome to Elm Class
Staff
Class Teacher: Mrs Bennett
Class Teaching Assistant: Mrs Luckhurst
PPA Class Teacher: Mrs Nash (Tuesday Morning and Wednesday afternoon)
Term 5 Key Information
- PE on a Monday afternoon
- Swimming - Thursday 23rd April, Thursday 30th April, Thursday 7th May, Thursday 14th May, Thursday 21st May
- Week beginning Monday 27th Teacher led clubs start
- Monday 4th May - Bank Holiday
- Wednesday 6th May - Class Photos
- Wednesday 6th May - Pop-in Wednesday (Come and see your child's work 3.15 - 3.40)
- Friday 15th May - Big Play afternoon
- Friday 15th May - FRIENDS Family Music and Chocolate Bingo
- Tuesday 19th May - Dealing with Change Talk 3 by Tom Lewis pm
- Friday 22nd May - End of Term
- INSET week Monday 1st June - Friday 5th June
We return on Monday 8th June 2026
Term 5 Connected Learning
This term we will focus on our environments around us and how to look after our world. Our key English text this term is ‘The Paper Bag Prince’ by Colin Thompson, which explores themes of pollution and the resilience of nature – encouraging children to write their own persuasive texts. In this unit we will focus on writing cohesive, formal paragraphs, using modal verbs and persuasive devices alongside features like relative clauses and parenthesis which we have already covered. In Maths this term we begin with perimeter and area, and then move on to interpret tables and graphs within our statistics unit. In Geography, we will be studying regions of the UK, learning where we live in relation to other counties and towns, as well as exploring human and physical characteristics and topographical features touching on how these may have changed over time, In Science we will explore both plant and animal reproduction, looking at different types of reproduction across the animal classes and how these may differ across species. In Music this term we will spend time beginning to learn the Ukulele, basic chords and how to follow musical notes. During Computing the children will have the opportunity to use and program small ‘crumble’ computers, understanding how to code outputs and conditions, building up to writing and testing their very own algorithms! In RE, we will be exploring what it means to be Jewish in Britain today - learning about the Torah, Synagogues and important festivals like Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. We are very excited to be taking part in swimming lessons on Thursday mornings during Term 5 and are sure we will have a great term.
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Maths in Year 5
Year 5 Maths OverviewProgression of Skills Year 5Maths Vocabulary Years 1-6Blog
Year 5 Elm Class BlogTimetable
Elm Year 5 Term 5 TimetableNewsletters
Year 5 Newsletter Term 1 2025Year 5 Newsletter Term 2 2025Year 5 Newsletter Term 3 2026Year 5 Newsletter Term 4 2026Home Learning
Year 5 Term 1 Home Learning GridYear 5 Term 2 Home Learning GridYear 5 Term 3 Home Learning GridYear 5 Term 4 Home Learning GridYear 5 Term 5 Home Learning Grid
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Year 5 Term 1 SpellingsYear 5 Term 2 SpellingsYear 5 Term 3 SpellingsYear 5 Term 4 SpellingsYear 5 Term 5 SpellingsYear 5 and 6 Statutory Word List
