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 1st December 2025

Dear parents and carers,

The children have been challenged in English this week as they have had to write a newspaper report about the lost children in space.  We started with creating the 'puzzle' pieces of title, orientation paragraph, quotes, future paragraphs before putting the pieces together to create the report.  The children remembered a lot about the structure of a newspaper report from last term and were able to apply their learning to this report.  We are planning a story next to write about how the children managed to solve the problem of being stuck in space.

In maths we are feeling more confident about adding and subtracting fractions, remembering to go through the process of changing the denominators, converting to improper fractions, creating mixed numbers etc.  We will be using SPED to solve problems in our next few lessons to see whether we can still do the maths fluency once we've worked out what the question is asking us!

We have been learning about solar and lunar eclipses in reading lessons and science this week.  We have watched some clips showing us the different eclipses and have drawn diagrams to try to show what happens when the sun, moon and earth are in alignment.

Our nativity rehearsals are going well and we're very excited to show our play to family.  If you have any baskets, sacks, bunches of fake flowers or traditional brooms that we could borrow as props they would be very helpful.

Thank you and have a wonderful week.

Mrs Townshend

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  squared x table (2x2, 5x5)  (12x12, 15x15)

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