Year 5

Mr Miller (Jays) & Mrs McMillan (Toucans)

Hello Year 5

On this page, you will find home learning activities to help support your learning and homework.

Year 5 pupils have their PE lessons on a Tuesday in the afternoon. Up until Christmas, Jays and Toucans will alternate weekly between PE with Mr Stretch and lessons with Mrs Hatch. Please make sure that you have your full school PE kit and suitable Forest School clothing in school ready for these lessons!

Please email us your homework or email us any questions using this email address: ipstaffyr5@gmail.com

***PLEASE NOTE. THIS EMAIL ADDRESS IS FOR HOMEWORK AND GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE. IF YOU HAVE AN URGENT ENQUIRY, PLEASE TELEPHONE THE SCHOOL OFFICE TO ARRANGE TO SPEAK TO A MEMBER OF STAFF***

You will also find activities to complete on Purple Mash, TT Rockstars and IDL (see the links below).

Mr Miller and Mrs McMillan.

WEEKLY SPELLINGS

Spelling lists will be sent home weekly on a Monday. The pupils will be tested on a Friday.

(Please see the "Resources" section at the bottom of the page for Statutory Spelling lists for Year 3/4 and 5/6.)

HOME READING

Make sure you are reading at home both independently and to an adult.
Remember to discuss what you have read. Don't forget, you can log in to MyOn to read electronic texts at home too! See below for links.

English Story Maps and retell

We learnt the story using a story map and we added actions to help us learn the story and be able to retell it. This is going to help us with story writing in class.

We look forward to creating new story maps for our upcoming English texts.

other Events in Year 5

Poems for Remembrance - Tuesday 30th September

Year 5 pupils took part in an online workshop.

National Poetry Day - Thursday 2nd October.

Year 5 created Haiku poetry based on Autumn. Come back soon for some examples of their work.

HOMEwork tasks

Due date: Wednesday 22nd October 2025

Subject Areas

READING

Continue to read your books using MyON.
You can also find some reading activities here.

SPAG

Click here for a series of lessons on sentence structures. This work is optional.

Click here for a series of lesson on tenses. This work is optional.

MATHS

Don't forget to log-on to TTrockstars and keep practising your x table and related facts.

Click here

Maths Revision

There are lots of previous maths questions and activities in the Maths Folder. This is found in the Activity File Share....found below!

Also, the link below can also be used for lots of different games to help support you in securing your times table knowledge!

https://www.transum.org/Tables/Times_Tables.asp

ARITHMETIC

Practise your 5 -a-day Arithmetic challenges. There are 4 levels to choose from - bronze, silver, gold and platinum. Click here to access.

SCIENCE

Autumn 1 - Forces

Autumn 2 - Materials and Changing Materials

Spring 1 - Earth and Space

Spring 2 - Working scientifically.

Summer 1 - Living things and their habitats

Summer 2 - Animals including humans

TOPIC

Autumn 1 - Local History Study (History)

Autumn 2 - Marvellous Maps (Geography)

Spring 1 - Magnificent Mountains (Geography)

Spring 2 - Enough for Everyone (Geography)

Summer 1 - Anglo-Saxons (History)

Summer 1/2 - Exploring Eastern Europe (Geography)

Summer 2 - Vikings (History)

PSHE

Autumn 1 - Me and My Relationships. Life Education visit.

Autumn 2 - Valuing Difference

Spring 1 - Keeping Myself Safe

Spring 2 - Rights and Responsibilities

Summer 1 - Being my Best

Summer 2 - Growing and Changing

R.E

Autumn 1 - The Bible

Autumn 2 - Christmas

Spring 1 - Old Testament Women

Spring 2 - Easter Around the World

Summer 1 - People of Faith

Summer 2 - Loss, Death and Christian Faith

ART

Autumn - Observational Drawings.

Spring - Pointillism

Summer - Sculpture

MUSIC

For our Music lessons this year, we are being taught how to play the violin by Bolton Music Service.

P.E

Remember, it is important to keep yourself active and healthy not just for your physical wellbeing but also for your mental health. There are workouts available to do at any time on Joe Wick's YouTube channel - CLICK HERE to access.

SPANISH

Autumn 1 - Phonetics.

Autumn 2 - The Seasons

CLICK HERE to explore other videos about how to introduce yourself in Spanish, talk about your likes and dislikes, the days of the week, nouns, colours, clothes and giving directions.

FOREST SCHOOL

Forest School Lessons take place on alternate Tuesdays.

Please click here for your Forest school lesson

ACTIVITY FILE SHARE

Below you can see the folders where we share the materials you will need for your learning. Just open the folder and click the file you need to open or save.