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,

We have almost finished our book, Cosmic and are desperate to find out what happens at the end of the story - we have been predicting what we think might happen and have engaged in lots of book talk.  The children have published their best piece of work to make a lovely display of learning about Cosmic in the classroom, including drawing rockets to show their predictions on.

We have completed our maths unit about fractions and the children could remember lots of different strategies to solve problems using their reasoning to prove their answers.  Our first unit after the holidays is multiplication and division, using formal methods to answer questions.

We have been thinking about Legacy in History this week - what inventions and discoveries the Ancient Chinese made which we still use today.  There are lots!  Ask your child about them.

We are excited to show you our nativity this week.  Photos to follow next week.

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  3 times table and 13 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