Year Five
Welcome to Year 5 at Birchwood Grove! This page is a summary of learning we are doing, planning, homework and anything else useful.
Please click on the links below to access key objectives in core subjects:
Reading - Page 33
Writing - Page 36
Maths - Page 31
Science - Page 27
Autumn Term 2025
Please click here for our Autumn Term overview.
Core Concepts
Underpinning our learning during Autumn term are our core concepts: Belonging and Diversity and our focus subject is History.
We begin our learning around the ancient Maya by reading the book, The Rain Player - a short narrative about a man who challenges the authority of the Mayan Gods. We will use this as our starting point for learning about the Mayan civilisation and the Gods they worshipped.
We will continue our learning around the Maya by designing Maya cities, investigating aspects of their daily life and evaluating secondary historical sources to discover why they seemed to vanish near the peak of their achievements.
Our second class text, Middle World will support our historical learning and understanding while also giving us an exciting narrative to base our own stories and writing ideas on.
Through our RSHCE curriculum, as well as our wider reading and learning, we will be exploring our key question: How and why should you demonstrate respect?
Growth Mindset
For the first two and a half weeks of the year, Year 5 focused on growth mindset and exploring our school values: Respect, Resilience, Collaboration, Independence and Creativity.
Using the books of Rachel Bright as inspiration in our reading, we explored our own strengths, successes, mistakes and anecdotes to find out what makes us -- us. Our resulting learning was showcased in a display based on the book, Can I Build Another Me?
Homework
Homework expectations for Year 5s are detailed below:
Reading (5x a week and respond to the homework activity on SeeSaw to receive your weekly reading raffle ticket)
Times Tables Rockstar (12 mins per week)
Spelling Shed (set lists following spelling patterns looked at in school)
MyMaths task (set weekly)
Homework will be set on a Wednesday and will be due in the following Wednesday. Homework club will be on Fridays after school - contact the school office if your child would like to join.
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