Welcome to Year 5!  

Useful Information for Year 5     2025 - 2026

Welcome to Year 5 at St. Theresa’s.

Staff: Teacher: Mrs Caudwell           Teaching Assistants: Mrs Kay, Mr Topping

Computing – Mr Topping (Thursday afternoon)

Spanish – Tuesday afternoon.

Below are a few notices about the following year:

• Children are expected to be in school between 8:30am and will be dismissed at 3pm. It is extremely important that they are on time as lessons start promptly at 8:30am.
• Regular PE lessons take place on a Tuesday afternoon. The children can wear appropriate clothing for the full day. Sometimes your child may do PE outside – therefore, please ensure that they are dressed appropriately. 
• Homework:

- Spellings: The children have five spellings per day to learn at home. They are tested on spellings on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. A full list of the following week’s spellings will be sent home.

• Reading:

This should be an ongoing task each night. The children read daily in school, and we encourage this to be the case at home too. At this age, we find that children have developed their own interests and prefer to read a book of their choice rather than a given text and therefore, we are happy for your child to read a book from home.

Listening to your child read as often as possible will really help their fluency and asking your child questions about what they have read will aid their comprehension. If your child does not have appropriate books at home, please ask them to speak to us and we will be able to provide books.

• Times Tables and Division Facts: 

Each week your child will be tested on their tables and division facts. They will have 100 questions that range from their 1–12 times tables. They have 5 minutes to answer the questions. At this point in their schooling, it is vital that children know their tables and division facts as it enables them to work much quicker with other aspects of maths. If your child isn’t secure in their facts, it would be a great help to them if this is something you could also work on at home.

Curriculum this term:

RE – Ourselves, Life Choices and Hope.

Science – Forces                        Properties and Changes of Materials

History – The Romans leave, and the invaders arrive

Geography – Rivers

Art – Vincent van Gogh

PSHE – Being Me in My World

Music – singing a repertoire of songs

Computing – Coding, Scratch

Literacy – Main texts - ‘Oranges in No Man’s Land’ by  Elizabeth Laird

‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens

In maths this term we will learn about ‘Place Value and Addition and Subtraction’.

If your child develops asthma or any allergies or medical conditions that we need to be aware of please let us know as soon as possible.

If you have any problems or worries, please feel free to come and talk to one of us, either before or after school, when we will try our best to help.

Thank you for all your support.

Mrs Caudwell, Mrs Kay and Mr Topping

   Helpful Links

• Times Table Rockstars
  Times Table Rockstars is a website that we subscribe to in order to support your child with their times tables. If your child has forgotten their details, please just ask a member of the Year 5 staff and we can provide them for you.