Year 5

 On Thursday 6th March 2025, the children celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite book character and sharing books with year 3.

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On Friday 7th February 2025, the children took part in the Art Festival Day. The focus for the event was Belonging.  The children had fun expressing their art and learning about cool and warm colours.

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On Monday 13th January 2025, the children of Year 5 enjoyed a fun filled day at the Young Voices concert in Birmingham.  The children spent their time rehearsing with other school choirs and MC Grammar along with learning dance moves with the Urbans Strides. The children were a credit to the school and St Martins are proud of their contribution. Well done Year 5.

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The children have been busy during the Autumn term. They have created safety belts using florescent and reflective materials and included microbit coding for an alert message.

They have been learning about gears and pulleys and worked in groups to put a model car on a roof.

The children have been busy swimming at Halo Swimming Pool and all children have made significant improvements in their swimming ability - Well done!

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We would like to welcome all the children back to St Martin’s after the Easter break. We are so excited to be going into the last term of Year 5 and for the topics we have to learn about. Mrs Holder and Mrs Adams are our teachers and we have Mrs Arnold and Miss Rogers who will be working with us.

English

This term, we will be working hard continuing to develop our writing skills in a wide range of genres. We are going to be developing exciting sentence structures and using high level vocabulary. We will continue to have weekly comprehension sessions and we are going to be focusing on grammar objective too such as word classes and using a wide range of punctuation. Our Reading for Meaning book this term is ‘Cosmic’ by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. 

Maths

In Maths, we will be moving on to topics which include fractions, decimals and percentages, shape and measure. We will be recapping all four formal methods for calculating and also looking at problem solving and reasoning questions within these areas. We will be working on arithmetic strategies too to improve on speed and accuracy. We will be still focusing on our times tables as they are a crucial tool that will help everyone greatly in their maths education throughout their childhood. Remember you can access Times Table Rockstars at home as well as school and this is a fantastic tool for improving times table knowledge!  

Geography and History

In our Geography we are going to explore map reading skills as well as understanding Ordnance Survey maps, how they can be used, and the information on them. This should be a great topic allowing the children to have life skills that will help them in their futures. In History, we will be learning about the Maya civilisation and comparing them to the Anglo - Saxons.

Science

In Science this term, our topics are Space and Living things and their habitats. Children will be exploring the planets and the moon for Space. The children will have the chance to look and compare the life cycles of different creatures and explore how and where different species live.

PE

PE is on Mondays this term. Please remember your PE kits for these days. It is much easier for the children to complete the lessons in their kits and it would be great to see all our classes with their kits.  

Music

This term we will focus on tuned and untuned instruments, following the Charanga music scheme. The children will also be practising their singing in weekly singing assemblies.

Homework

We have English and Maths homework that will be set weekly on a Friday and should be submitted back to the class teacher by the Wednesday of the following week. We will be using paper copies of homework and there are spare copies in each classroom should they be needed. Spellings will also be given out on each Friday and these need to be practiced ready to be tested the following Friday.

For the benefit of children, we are very keen to have open and positive relations between the school and families at home. Please don’t hesitate to come in and see us if you have any questions or concerns and we will always do our best to help. Let’s have a fab summer term!

With best wishes from  

Mrs Holder and Mrs Adams.

5A Classroom