Elm Class (Year 5)

Welcome to Elm Class

Staff

Class Teacher: Miss Finnis 

Class Teaching Assistant: Mrs Bull

PPA Class Teacher: Miss Payne (Thursday) 

 Term 1 Key Information 

• PE on a  Wednesday and Thursday afternoon
• Forest School - Thursday 5th Nov, Thursday 12th Nov
• Monday 02 November 2026 - Start of Term 2
• Thursday 05 November 2026 - Guy Fawkes; School Flu Jabs all day
• Sunday 08 November 2026 - Remembrance Sunday
• Wednesday 11 November 2026 10:45 - KS2 Remembrance Worship/ 2 mins
  silence @ Hall; EYFS/KS1 Class Worship & Silence in classroom; 15:30 – 18:00 Parent Teacher Consultations Session
• Thursday 12 November 2026 17:00 – 19:30 Parent Teacher Consultations Session 2
• Friday 13 November 2026 - Children in Need Non-Uniform & Fundraising Day

• Monday 16 November 2026 - Start of Maths Week UK; Anti-Bullying Week; Road Safety Week

• Monday 16 November 2026 - Odd Sock Day
• Friday 20 November 2026 - Number Non-Uniform Day/World Children’s day; Cedar Class Celebration Worship – Cedar Parents welcome
• Tuesday 24 November 2026 - Year 5 Living History @ Olive Branch/Hall
• Friday 27 November 2026 - FRIENDS Non-Uniform Day in exchange for donations for fair - see posters

• Tuesday 01 December 2026 - Advent starts

• Thursday 03 December 2026 - Make a Gift Day

• Saturday 05 December 2026 - 11:00 -14:00- FRIENDs Christmas Fair/The sound of Christmas

• Monday 07 December 2026 -Last Week of Staff Led Clubs; Letter Writing Day; 13:30 EYFS Nativity Dress Rehearsal to school

• Friday 11 December 2026 13:00 – 14:00 - BIG PLAY

• Monday 14 December 2026 10:30 - House Worship

• Wednesday 16 December 2026 - Festive Non-Uniform; 11:30-13:00 School Christmas Lunch

• Thursday 17 December 2026 - 13:30 – 15:00 Winning House Activity

• Friday 18 December 2026 08:45 Christmas Giving Tree and Christmas Carol Service @Playground – All Parents Welcome.

• End of Term 2 at 15:15. We return to school on Monday 4th January 2027.

Term 1 Connected Learning 

This term, our learning focuses on 'Where would you settle?'.

Our key text in English is ‘The Lost Happy Endings’, which is based on traditional fairy tales and focuses on adding description and figurative language to add imagery to our writing and develop the character and settings. Our Science learning this term focuses on properties and changes of materials, looking at how we can describe materials based on their properties, how materials can be changed and if changes are reversible or irreversible. Our Geography topic this term is settlements where we will be looking at different types of classification of settlements and using OS maps and aerial photos to identify types of settlement and features they have. In History, we look at the Anglo-Saxon period of Britain and understand why they came and how they ruled across the kingdom. In Art, the focus for this term is ‘Dreamscapes’. Using illustrations from Craig Russell and Lorenzo Mattotti and the Surrealism movement, children will practice drawing techniques to create their own dreamscape. In RE, we look at the question 'Was Jesus the Messiah?' looking at what was prophesied in the Bible and making links to Incarnation. 

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Maths in Year 5

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Year 5 Term 1 2026 Spellings

Year 5 Term 2 2026 Spellings

Year 5 and 6 Statutory Spelling List

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