Year 5
Year 5
Welcome to the Year 5 class page. Visit this page for regular updates on what the children have been learning about in Year 5.
Mr Clark (3 days) and Miss Makda (2 days) teach Ash Class, whilst Miss Shaikh is the teacher for Maple Class. Mrs P Cook is the teaching assistant across both classes.
Our school day begins at 8:40am and ends at 3:15pm.
Our PE days is Monday, please remember children need to wear their PE kit on this day. We will also visit our school library on Mondays, so the children will change their library book on this day, if they so wish.
Please remember:
a water bottle
to make sure long hair is tied back
a piece of fruit or healthy snack for break time.
We are a nut free school, please can we ask you to check ingredients
to make sure all products are nut free.
Remember to use our year group email to get in touch:
Yr5@stjames.covmat.org
The photographs and information below show you Year 5's 2024 -2025 academic learning journey...
Year 5 children followed a recipe to make some honey cakes for their 'Cook' DT project. Have a look through some of the photos to see how well they did. They worked well together in small groups and very little adult direction. They very much enjoyed the tasting and evaluating.
07/02/25 Ash Class
Spectacular writing today!! Children wrote a character description of Hugo Cabret, that included his appearance, personality and back story. I spotted some relative clauses too, which added extra information.
10/01/25 Ash Class
Children enjoyed researching, exploring, designing, making and evaluating their Cams Toys. We were impressed with the outcome as the rotary movement worked - such excitement around the classroom!!
20/12/24 Ash Class
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
15/11/24 Y5 Ash Class
Thank you so much for all of your kind donations 
Children enjoyed participated in Children In Need activities throughout the day - especially eating those delicious biscuits!!
15/11/24 Y5 Ash Class
An online 45 minute zoom session with Jacqueline Wilson!!
25/10/24 Y5 Ash Class
Impressive writing today! Children had a go at writing their own version of Chapter 9 titled 'Fire' from The Golden Horseman Story. I was hooked throughout and couldn't stop until I finished reading their pieces of writing. These have been emailed over to the author and we are hoping for a response soon.
27/09/24 Y5 Ash Class
We participated in Macmillan Coffee Morning - children loved making and eating those delicious cakes! Thank you to everyone for your kind donations. It was lovely to see so many parents/ carers in the classroom after coffee, joining in with our activities.
20/09/24 Y5 Ash Class
We have started reading 'The golden horseman of Baghdad' and children read with lovely expression! They inferred possible reasons for character behaviours e.g. why did the landlord sneer? Our writing task focused on describing the story setting - oh wow! Impressive use of expanded noun phrases, similes...
04/09/24 Y5 Ash Class
Children amazed me during the first week back when problem solving in maths! Their favourite activity was Tarsia, which required them to create a hexagonal hive by linking the multiplication number sentence to its answer. Other tasks included +/- 'hit the button' on the computer, playing cards multiplication, rolling dice to form decimal numbers to order on a ladder, rounding money, creating 3d shapes, repeated pattern painting.... It was lovely to hear how much children enjoyed doing this!
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Below you will find photos and information about Year 5's academic journey through 2023-24.
Maths Prime and Square Number Investigation
Drama - Acting out our story mountain for The Golden Horsemen of Baghdad
Science - We have been looking at life cycles of different animals
Music - We have been using glockenspiels to explore our Autumn song Ghost Parade
Our library day is Thursday! Make sure you remember to bring in your books!
Art - Our topic for the first Autumn half term was Early Islam. We have created prints in the style of Islamic art that can be seen in mosques around the world.
Reading for Pleasure in Year 5
Maths - We have been looking at equivalent fractions. Some of us have been making them and some have been using times tables to find fractions that are equal. We persevered when answering problems with lots of steps! We drew on our knowledge of square numbers from our place value topic too!
D&T Making Pencil cases - Year 5 showed great resilience!
Science - We used filtering to separate mixtures!
Christmas Toy Day!
