Welcome to Year Five
Year 5 are taught by: Miss Kelly, Mrs Holland, Mrs Winter, Mrs Brittle, Miss Martin.
Our two classes are:
The National Curriculum states in Year Five children should read fluently, understand complex texts, write clearly with varied sentences, and use advanced grammar. Be confident with all four operations using formal methods, complex calculations, fractions, decimals, percentages, and place value up to a million; solve problems, and develop confidence in discussion, presentations, and applying knowledge across subjects.
Key Expectations
Handwriting- Write legibly, clearly and with increasing speed.
Curriculum- Apply skills across subjects, learning facts in History, Geography, Science, etc., and developing skills in Art, Music, Computing, and PE.
Speaking & Listening- Discuss ideas, elaborate, explain, and participate in debates.
Reading 
The National Curriculum states that in Year Five pupils are expected to read a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, and non-fiction fluently and with understanding. They develop deeper comprehension skills, including making inferences, summarising, and predicting, explain word meanings in context, analyse themes, characters, and authorial choices, retrieve information from non-fiction, and justify their opinions with evidence. Independent reading for pleasure and vocabulary development is encouraged, aiming to create confident, thoughtful, and analytical readers.
In Birchills we follow Ready Steady Read Together, our lessons follow the same teaching sequence and provides a detailed framework of how to move through the 3 step teaching sequence. Our lessons last 45 minutes and we have one lesson a day. Below is a breakdown of a typical lesson.
Writing 
Year 5 writing focuses on pupils being able to write clearly, accurately, and coherently for a range of purposes and audiences. They should plan, draft, and organise their writing into structured paragraphs, using a wide range of sentence structures, including complex and varied sentences. Pupils are expected to use punctuation accurately, including commas, brackets, dashes, apostrophes for possession, and inverted commas for speech. Spelling should be largely accurate, including words with prefixes, suffixes, and commonly misspelt words. Handwriting should be fluent and legible, with consistent use of joined writing. Pupils should also revise and edit their work to improve clarity, grammar, and vocabulary, developing independence, creativity, and confidence in their writing.
At Birchills we want all children to enjoy becoming writers so we cultivate a love of writing through our vocabulary rich and high quality literature using Ready Steady Write by Literacy Counts. Ready Stedy Write uses an engagiong and vocabulary rich texts to create a wealth of writing oportunities. The Books we use in Year Five are:
Maths 
In Year 5, maths focuses on developing fluency, reasoning, and problem-solving. Pupils work confidently with large numbers, calculations, fractions, decimals, and percentages, understand shapes and measurements, interpret data, and apply their knowledge to solve problems, building independence and the ability to explain their reasoning. At Birchills we follow Oak National Academy, this curriculum develops pupils understanding of mathematics over time so they become confident in identifying and perfoming the mathematics they need both at school and in their daily lives.
What maths looks like in Year Five
'There is consistent evidence that reading for pleasure promotes positive mental wellbeing. (The National Literacy Trust)
Reading for Pleasure 
Here at Birchills we are an advocate for Reading for Pleasure and encourage children to choose a book and enjoy reading it. Reading for pleasure can lower stress levels, increase empathy and improve academic success. We ask that you encourage your child to read at home and create a love for reading.
Here are some reccommended texts for Year Five:
Please see our Curriculum Overview to see what we are learning about during Year 5.
Throughout the year parents and carers are invited into school to see what we learn and learn ways that they can support us more in school. Please look at the document below for more information about how we teach reading and maths.