Welcome to Year Five
Caring Respect Empathy Courage Resilience
Our Year 5 Team
Teacher – Mrs Richardson
Assistant Teacher – Mrs Parylo
Attendance is key to academic success and social development.
Please aim for your child to be in school EVERY day!
The Year Five classroom is a warm, fun and welcoming place to be where lots of fast pace, exciting and challenging learning takes place. We aim for all lessons to be interactive, enjoyable, and memorable and the children are encouraged to show independence from the moment they enter the classroom. Year Five pupils are given lots of responsibility and are expected to take ownership of their effort when learning. Class responsibilities, in the form of monitors, are established early on in Year Five – the children love these jobs and fulfil their jobs well. With support from teachers and family at home, the children will work hard on their goals and achieve to their own true potential. Year Five is alive with reading and we take every opportunity to read and thoroughly enjoy our termly texts. Children are supported to grow a love of reading, becoming readers who read for pleasure and purpose. Mental health and well-being are high priority in Year Five so we work hard to support the children to be happy and incorporate lots of humour and class jokes into our time together, wherever we can. We promote positive self-talk and resilience and guide children through any difficulties they face.
Our school day
Doors open 8:45am, registration closes at 8.55am. Your child must be in school by 8.55am.
The school day ends at 3:15pm
Your child will enter and leave school via the Roper Street Gate entrance.
Safeguarding is high priority at Merton Bank so please understand we may need to check if someone else is picking your child up. Please always inform the office if someone new is collecting. Thank you for your understanding with this.
Important things to remember for a successful year ahead:
You may wish to provide a healthy snack for your child to eat at 10:40am playtime. Lunch will be at 12:20pm.
Each child can have their own water bottle on their desk, please provide these with their name on.
PE This term (Spring 1) we have PE every Wednesday – please ensure that your child attends school on these days in their PE kit. On these days children must wear the following PE uniform: white polo shirt/ t-shirt, black shorts and trainers/pumps. We expect high standards of PE kits, please contact one of the team if you require any support.
Autumn Term Learning:
Spring Term Learning:
Summer Term Learning:
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Take a look at some of the exciting learning in Year 5 during Autumn Term 2025
Writing
The children have enjoyed working through our Talk for Writing scheme this half term as they have created Warning stories and letters! Through practical activities, drama, sorting vocabulary, story maps and grammar lessons the children’s skills have progressed across the Half term and they have always had big smiles on their faces! Our Writing Wall is a big point of discussion in our classroom and the children enjoy pegging their work!
Art
This Half Term, Year 5 have researched and studied the work of the artists Henri Rosseau and Morris Louis. The children were challenged to create a background, inspired by Rosseau’s work and then transform it into a jungle like scene – with an animal in movement. The added aspect of collage really allowed the children’s artwork to pop!
Science
This Half term, Year Five have adored our Science topic – Earth and Space! The children have learnt all about the planets in our Solar System and the order they are positioned from the sun. They have studied and learnt how the earth, sun and moon move in space and that this has an affect on our seasons and in creating ‘day’ and ‘night’. The children enjoyed a tasty treat as they learnt the eight different phases of the moon using Oreo biscuits to help the learning ‘stick’!
Reading
The children in Year 5 have thoroughly enjoyed the selection of books that we have used this Half term, from our Book Spine. Through practical activities, drama experiences, text marking, summarising and whole class discussion the children’s comprehension skills have progressed amazingly!
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