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 24th November 2025

Dear parents and carers,

In English this week, the children wrote an email from Liam to Dr Drax owning up to his actual age. They included lots of formal language and incorporated higher level vocabulary. They also created a colourful word bank using the solar system as inspiration. These words and phrases will be used in their English writing over the next few lessons.

In maths we have been subtracting fractions and in doing so we have been putting into practise how to convert fractions, change mixed numbers into improper fractions and find equivalent fractions. Next, we will be moving on to consolidate our fraction unit.

In science this week we were thinking about our knowledge of how we come to have day time and night time. We modelled the orbit of the Earth around the Sun and discussed key vocabulary such as axis and anti- clockwise rotation.  We also discovered in one of our reading texts that the astronauts on the International Space Station witness not just one sunset and sunrise but 16 in one day as it rapidly orbits the earth.

Thank you and have a wonderful week.

Mrs Townshend

Please find new home learning at the top of this page.  I have swapped the groups around slightly so look carefully to see whether your child is in group 1, 2 or 3..

Spellings will now be set on a Wednesday for testing on the following Wednesday.

Times tables will be tested on a Friday - this week we will be testing 12 x table and some of us will be tested on the mixed x 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