Welcome to Year 5! 

In Year 5, the class teacher is Miss Wilson. 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to come and speak to Miss Wilson. If she is not around at the beginning and end of the day, you can contact the school office and request an appointment. 

Please keep referring back to this page for regular updates about the children's learning. 

Homework and Reading diaries:

Miss Wilson would like the children to aim to read at least 3 times (on separate occasions) during the week, and for this to me recorded in their diaries. The children will have their weekly spellings stuck into their diaries, ready to be tested every Friday. Please encourage your child to practise these spellings at home, as well as practising their times tables on the TT Rockstars website.

Miss Wilson will ask the children to bring in their diaries every Friday for them to be checked and for their spellings to be stuck into their books ready for the following week. However, children in the class can bring in their diaries earlier to show Miss Wilson any homework or additional homework they have completed if they wish to. 

As always, thank you for your support.

PE DAYS (AUTUMN 1)

Please note that our PE days for this half term will be: Wednesday (outdoor) and Thursday (indoor). 

w.b. 13th October 2025

English: This week, we have been practising writing speech using the correct punctuation that we learnt in Year 4. Before completing the task in their books, the children created an imaginary conversation between two objects or people and worked in groups to write what they would say. They used this learning to help them write what Hercules would say and how when he was fighting the Nemean Lion. 

Music: In our music lessons this week, we explored the sounds that different percussion instruments make. We worked in groups to practise how to use them and experiemented with the different sounds they make. We will use this learning to help us create a story behind the music in the next lesson. 

w.b. 6th October 2025

PE: In PE this week, we continued to practise a variety of different balances that we could put into our own gymnastic sequence at the end of half term. We focussed on ensuring our fingers and toes were pointed in true 'gymnastic-fashion', and challenged ourselves to hold the balance between 5-7 seconds. Year 5 did a great job and expertly performed their balances. Not only this, but during the lesson, we began to think about and practise different ways of travelling between their balances. We will continue to practise these to make sure our routines are as effective as possible. 

Maths: During our maths lessons this week, we moved onto our next block: addition and subtraction. This week, we focussed on practising our mental strategies in order to solve addition and subtraction calculations. In our maths lessons, we have been using concrete and visual resources such as place value counters, diennes and number cards to help us to visualise the problems and the exchanging within the calculation. 

w.b. 29th September 2025

English: This week, Year 5 have been getting stuck into our new writing unit: Hercules, a Greek myth. In this unit, the children will write their own Greek myth using narrative writing techniques. Before writing our myths, Year 5 read a Hercules graphic novel that tells the story of Hercules' 12 labours, which will be using as our stimulus for writing our own myths. They all enjoyed reading the graphic novel and had fun acting out different scenes from it. 

Music: In music this week, we have been learning about tempo, rhythm, dynamics and pitch in music. We listened to a classical piece of music and began to identify these features within the music. During the lesson, we thought about how the music made us feel and collected our ideas. These were then shared with each other and we spotted some similarities in the adjectives we chose to write. 

School Councillor Votes: This week was a very important week at Chiltern - it was time to decide who will be our school councillors. In Year 5, we have been learning about all the different British Values, especially democracy. Before the vote, we were lucky enough to be visited by our local MP, Luke Murphy, who explained more about democracy. During the week, we visited our very own voting station in our school library and voted for who we wanted to be our Year 5 school councillor representative. Congratulations Mason, who is our new Year 5 school councillor. 

w.b. 22nd September 2025

Maths: During our number and place value unit, we have been using place value charts and counters to help us create numbers and the value on its digits. One of the questions we were asked to answer required us to create different numbers using only 5 counters and we had great fun finding out how many different numbers with different amounts of digits we could make. 

History: During this week's lesson, we used our historical enquiry into the Dark Age and Archaic period by asking questions that we would need to answer in order to find out more information about these periods in history. We were then asked to compare the Dark Ages to the Archaic Period within the Ancient Greek civilication. We listened to a podcast and played our version of Bingo where we had cross off any facts that we could hear whilst we were listening to the podcast. 

w.b. 15th September 2025

P.E: This week, we began our new gymnastics unit that focusses on balances and sequences. In this unit, we began practising level 1 balances indpendently, while our partners gave us feedback about what we did successfully and how we could improve next time. We will be building on this learning later in the unit where we will be practising level 2-4 balances including partner balances. 

R.E: In today's lesson, we discussed the meaning of the word commitment and sort examples of commitment into low commitment (doing a little) and high commitment (putting in lots of effort) based on our personal response. Then, we wrote our own example of commitment and what it means to us.

w.b. 8th September 2025

English: During our first full week back at school, we have got stuck into our new writing unit about Leo and the Gorgon's Curse. We worked in groups to find synonyms for some adjectives and nouns that we could use in our writing, and then began to rank them on paint strips. They were ranked from general vocabulary that we could use in most sentences to specfic words that we would be only be able to use in specific contexts or sentences. 

Art: This week, we also began our new art unit: Tints, Tones and Shades. We created our own examples of these art technique to help us to remember how to create them later on in the unit.