The Year 5 Team

Curriculum Overview

Online Advent Calendar

As Advent begins this Sunday with Advent Sunday celebrated in Churches, we would like to share this online Advent Calendar with you, produced by the Diocese of Guildford. It explores the Christmas story through Christian artwork, investigating a different artist and aspect of the story throughout the term time days of Advent. Please enjoy sharing this with your family as we prepare for Christmas in school and at home.

This week in Sussex 5:

Week beginning 15th December 2025

Dear parents and carers,

In English this week, we finally finished reading Cosmic and what an ending it was! The children really enjoyed this book and were sad when we read the final few pages. To get into the spirit of Christmas, Cornwall wrote some beautiful Haiku poems based on winter and Christmas and also wrote a short narrative about 'The man on the Moon,' based on the John Lewis advert.

In Maths, we have been revising key topics and checking our times tables. Next term, we will be starting our new topic on Multiplication and Division. We will be looking at multiplying 4-digit numbers by a 1-digit number and multiplying more than 1-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers.

Today we were all treated to a wonderful Christmas lunch. Thank you so much to the kitchen staff for all their effort today and throughout the year.

Please be reminded that term ends today (Thursday 18th December at 12:15). We look forward to welcoming children back on Monday 5th January 2026!

Thank you and have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Mrs Townshend and Ms Walker.

Please find the home learning at the top of this page.  

Spellings are set on a Wednesday for testing on the following Wednesday.

Times tables will be tested on a Friday - this week we will be testing  4 times table and 14 times table.

A typical week in Sussex 5

Home Learning

Spellings - starting Monday 6th October.

Multiplication Tables

Weekly practise of multiplication tables is vital in supporting mathematical development. Below is a chart of the 36 essential facts to learn. This is especially helpful for children who are almost fluent.

Times Tables Rockstars! 

To keep practising the multiplication taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account. 

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Challenge yourself to beat your score and build your knowledge as you become a Rockstar!

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.

To continue to learn times tables, this website is useful:

Times tables games - Learn them all here!

Reading

Children should bring their Accelerated Reading Book to and from school each day. When they have finished reading, children are asked to complete a quiz before changing their book. 

https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6704864

Parents please log your child's reading on the BOOM reader Parent Portal or by using the BOOM reader parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week.

boomreader.co.uk/parents

Spelling

The link below will take you to the spelling scheme we are working from in school.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/english/primary-spelling/

This document contains spelling strategies that are used in class, and can be used at home to aid learning new words:

Southborough's Spelling Strategies