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 2024
Welcome back to all our brand-new Year 5s! Please click here for our first half of Autumn term planning.
Growth Mindset
For the first few weeks of the year, Year 5 will be focusing 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 will explore our own strengths, successes, mistakes and anecdotes to fin out what makes us -- us. Our resulting learning will be showcased in our very own class book, Can We Build Another Us? inspired by Shinsuke Yoshitake.
Core Concepts
Underpinning our learning during Autumn term are our core concepts: change, cause and consequence and our focus subject is History.
The rest of our half term is centred around the Ancient Maya. We will explore this mysterious and fascinating civilisation through building our class timeline, 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.
This in turn will feed into our enquiry question: Are the consequences of change worth the risk?
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.
Please let us know as soon as possible if you are having trouble with any logins. If you have any questions about homework, please contact your child's teacher.
Meet the teacher meeting Autumn 2024