Year 5
Teacher: Mrs Gibson
Teacher: Miss Coker
Teaching Assistant: Miss Walsh
Welcome to our year group page, where you can find our curriculum overviews, latest news, photos of learning opportunities and achievements in Year 5.
Current Topic - Term 1
This term in Year 5, our focus is Peaks and Summits. We will be learning about mountains and volcanoes including how they are formed, the climate on mountains and the physical and human effect on mountains. In English, we will be reading When the Mountains Roared by Jess Butterworth and using the text to help us write character and setting descriptions.
In Maths, we will be looking at place value of numbers up to 100,000, addition and subtraction and multiplication and division. For Art, we shall be looking at the work of Georgia O'Keefe, including her mountain and landscape paintings and using our colour mixing and painting skills to produce our own pieces of artwork in a similar style. Our science topic is Forces, and we will be learning about gravity, air-resistance and the life of Isaac Newton.
Reminders and Routines
Children must bring a named water bottle into school each day and all school uniform should be clearly labelled to ensure it can be returned to your child if misplaced. If you have arranged for your child to be collected by another adult that this is communicated to the office or the class teacher.
During summer months, please also make sure your child has a sun hat to wear outside and has sun cream applied each morning before school.
P.E Term 1
PE days: Wednesday- gymnastics - Thursday- tag rugby
Children should come into school wearing PE kit and appropriate footwear on this day.
Supporting Learning At Home
Tasks will be set half termly via Google Classroom with a selection of homework activities to choose from. Children are encouraged to pick one activity each week and bring their work to school or upload photos and send it to year5@gloryfarmschool.co.uk.
Websites to Support Learning
BBC Bitesize - Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
Primary Homework Help - Mountains/Volcanoes
Topmarks - Spelling and Grammar English Games
Year 5 Newsletters 2026/2027
Year 5 Newsletter Autumn Term 1 2026
