Merton Bank Primary School

Welcome to Year Five

The Year Five classroom is a warm, fun and welcoming place to be where lots of fast pace, exciting and challenging learning takes place. We aim for all lessons to be interactive, enjoyable, and memorable and the children are encouraged to show independence from the moment they enter the classroom. Year Five pupils are given lots of responsibility and are expected to take ownership of their effort when learning. Class responsibilities, in the form of monitors, are established early on in Year Five – the children love these jobs and fulfil their jobs well. With support from teachers and family at home, the children will work hard on their goals and achieve to their own true potential. Year Five is alive with reading and we take every opportunity to read and thoroughly enjoy our termly texts. Children are supported to grow a love of reading, becoming readers who read for pleasure and purpose. Mental health and well-being are high priority in Year Five so we work hard to support the children to be happy and incorporate lots of humour and class jokes into our time together, wherever we can. We promote positive self-talk and resilience and guide children through any difficulties they face.

Our school day

Doors open 8:45am, registration closes at 8.55am.  Your child must be in school by 8.55am.

The school day ends at 3:15pm

Your child will enter and leave school via the Roper Street Gate entrance.

Safeguarding is high priority at Merton Bank so please understand we may need to check if someone else is picking your child up.  Please always inform the office if someone new is collecting.  Thank you for your understanding with this.

Important things to remember for a successful year ahead:

You may wish to provide a healthy snack for your child to eat at 10:40am playtime. Lunch will be at 12:20pm.

Each child can have their own water bottle on their desk, please provide these with their name on.

PE This term (Spring 1) we have PE every Tuesday and Thursday – please ensure that your child attends school on these days in their PE kit.  On these days children must wear the following PE uniform: white polo shirt/ t-shirt, black shorts and trainers/pumps. We expect high standards of PE kits, please contact one of the team if you require any support.

Autumn Term Learning:

Spring Term Learning:

Summer Term Learning:

Take a look at some of the exciting learning in Year 5 during Autumn Term 2024

English

Year Five have enjoyed Writing lessons this term as they have prepared and planned to write a ‘Warning Story’. The children’s ideas have been encouraged through outside activities, hot seat challenges, role play opportunities and eyewitness accounts. The children have been challenged to create ambitious sentences within their writing using appropriate adjectives, varied sentence openers and to use emotive language.

Science

History

PSHE 

Maths

The children have kick-started this term with the topic Place Value. This has required them to build upon their prior knowledge as they now work with numbers up to one million! With the use of Place value charts, counters and Base Ten visuals – the children have enjoyed math’s challenges, puzzles and problems and have worked collaboratively together when necessary.

History

Art

DT

Computing

RE

Geography

PE

Music

MFL

SMSC