Year Five

Welcome to Panther Class!

Our teacher is Miss Francis s.francis@kings-hill.kent.sch.uk . Our teaching assistant is Mrs Garner.

Welcome to Leopard Class!

Our teacher is Mrs Baldock l.baldock@kings-hill.kent.sch.uk and our teaching assistant is Mrs Jones.

Please click here for the Year 5 'Meet the Teacher' presentation

Spring Term 2026

Welcome to our Year 5 class page!

Below is an outline of the learning that will take place this term.

English Key Text: Greek Myths

Reading:

To discuss and comment on themes and conventions in a variety of genres.
To provide straightforward explanations for the purpose of the language, structure and presentation of texts e.g. bullet points; how a letter is set out; introductory paragraphs.
To discuss their understanding of the meaning of words in context, finding other words which are similar.
To discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language (e.g. simile, imagery) and its effect on the reader.
To draw inferences and justify these with evidence from the text.
To participate in discussion about texts, expressing and justifying opinions, building on ideas and challenging others’ views courteously.

Writing:

To discuss and develop initial ideas in order to plan and draft before writing.
To write to suit purpose and with a growing awareness of audience, using appropriate features e.g. diary entry, formal invitation and narrative.
To organise writing into sections or paragraphs; create cohesion by linking ideas within paragraphs.
To use dialogue to indicate character and event.
To describe characters, settings and plot, with growing precision.

Spelling, punctuation and grammar:

To write a range of sentence structures which are grammatically accurate.
To experiment writing in different tenses based upon the genre of text.
To use commas for a pause in complex sentences.
To use punctuation for parenthesis: brackets, commas, dashes.
To use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely.
To understand how to use semi-colons including using them in a detailed list.

Mathematics:

To multiply up to a 4-digit number by a 1-digit number.
To multiply a 2-digit number by a 2-digit number.
To multiply a 3-digit number by a 2-digit number.
To solve problems with multiplication.
To use short division.
To divide a 4-digit number by a 1-digit number.
To divide with remainders.
To use efficient division.
To solve worded multiplication and division problems.
To multiply unit and non-unit fractions and mixed numbers by an integer.
To calculate a fraction of a quantity.
To find a fraction of an amount.
To find the whole.
To use fractions as operators.

Science:

Know the life cycles of a mammal, amphibian, insect and bird.
Know that reproduction of living things is either sexual or asexual.
Know that naturalists study living things in a range of worlds.
Know David Attenborough and Jane Goodall are famous naturalists who have dedicated their lives to finding out about living things, filming them and educating us.
Know the process of sexual reproduction in flowering plants.
Know that in asexual reproduction, only one parent is needed to reproduce a copy of the parent.
Know that some plants can grow new plants from bulbs, runners and tubers.
Know that in asexual reproduction, the plants are a clone of their parents.
Know that sexual reproduction is the fertilisation of female sex cells (eggs) by male sex cells (sperm).
Know fish, amphibians, birds and reptiles produce eggs. Mammals produce live young.
Describe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird.
Describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals.

History:

To know when the ancient Greek civilisation existed in relation to other periods of history (using a timeline).
To know about the similarities and differences between the city states of Athens and Sparta.
To know how democracy in Ancient Athens is different from that in the UK today.
To know that the city states were sometimes in conflict.
To know the important achievements of Alexander the Great.
To know how artefacts and evidence can give an insight into Ancient Greece, what life was like and how communities lived.
To know the currency used for trade.
To know how buildings and their architecture reflected status, importance and power.
To understand why Greek myths were important in society and religion.
To know how Greek myths and legends reflected aspects of real life in Ancient Greece.
To know how the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece had religious significance.
To know how the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece have evolved and caused today’s Olympic Games.

Music:

To sing a broad range of songs from an extended repertoire with a sense of ensemble and performance.
To sing in accurate pitch and appropriate style.
To sing songs in two or more parts, in a variety of musical styles from memory, with accuracy, fluency, control and expression.
Sing partner songs, and songs with a verse and a chorus.

Art:

Understand that we can tell stories through drawing.
Know that we can use text within our drawings to add meaning.
Sequence drawings to help viewers respond to our story/poem
We can use line, shape, colour and composition to develop evocative and characterful imagery.
Understand how powerful monochromatic colour schemes can be
Explore artists that tell stories through imagery

Computing:

To explain what makes a video effective.
To identify features of videos .
To use a digital device to record video.
To identify and find features on a digital video recording device.
To capture video using a range of techniques .
To decide which filming techniques to use.
To create a storyboard.
To identify that video can be improved through reshooting and editing .
To store, retrieve, and export the recording to a computer
To consider the impact of the choices made when making and sharing a video.

PSHE:

To understand that I will need money to help me achieve some of my dreams.
To know about a range of jobs carried out by people I know and have explored how much people earn in different jobs .
To identify a job I would like to do when I grow up and understand what motivates me and what I need to do to achieve it .
To describe the dreams and goals of young people in a culture different to mine .
To understand that communicating with someone in a different culture means we can learn from each other and I can identify a range of ways that we could support each other.

RE:

To understand what a place of worship is and what is it for.
To know what a Christian place of worship is and what it is for.
To know what a Hindu place of worship is and what it is for.
To know what a Jewish place of worship is and what it is for.

P.E.:

To develop dribbling and passing skills, linking these together to keep possession of the football.
To develop how to defend when they do not have the ball.
To develop defending and attacking skills in small sided games.
To develop shooting skills and use these skills in small sided games.
To combine my learning into a level 1 tournament.

Could children please come dressed in their PE kits and have their earrings taken out on these days.

French

To know some weathers and the seasons in French
To be able to describe different weathers
To be able to describe the seasons in French.

Click here to see the expectations for reading, writing and maths in Year 5.

For more information on our remote learning offer for those of you learning at home, please click here.

For more information on the learning taking place this term, please see the Year 5 curriculum map below.

As well as accessing our broad curriculum, our pupil offer outlines the additional opportunities your child will have whilst in Year 5.

Curriculum Maps

Term 1 Curriculum Map

Term 2 Curriculum Map

Term 3 Curriculum Map

Term 4 Curriculum Map

Term 5 Curriculum Map

Term 6 Curriculum Map

Homework in Year 5

Daily Reading

We encourage all children to read at home daily and a note to be written in their reading journal. If the school book has been completed then please read and share any other books/comics you have at home. These can also be recorded in the reading journal and can count towards the number of daily reads.

Spellings

Spelling will be sent home on a Friday and will tested the following Friday

SPaG.com

Maths arithmetic

Arithmetic questions will be set on Fridays and will need to be handed in on the following Wednesday.

TT Rockstars

We suggest working on TT Rockstars for 15 minutes a week; however you can do more should you wish. Specific timestables will be set for your child and this programme aims to increase the fluency of these. This is an online maths game that can be accessed on tablet, ipads and desktops

English in Year Five

Reading in Year Five

By the end of year 5, the children's reading should demonstrate increasing fluency across all subjects. They will understand the conventions of different types of writing such as the use of the first person and understand some technical terms needed for discussing what is heard and read such as metaphor, simile. analogy, imagery, style and effect. In using non-fiction, the children will know what information is needed to look for before beginning a task and know how to use a contents page and indexes to locate information and apply these skills across the curriculum independently. They will apply a growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (morphology and etymology) both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words that are met.

Writing and SPaG in Year Five

In the composition of writing, the children will select the appropriate form and identify the audience for, and purpose of, the writing. They will use further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader, for example headings, bullet points and underlining.

When developing SPaG skills, the children will consider converting nouns or adjectives into verbs and be able to indicate degrees of possibility using adverbs or modal verbs. They will use devices to build cohesion within a paragraph and use commas to clarify meaning.

By the end of year 5, the children will use accurate grammar and punctuation and begin to apply this when considering both audience and purpose. They will understand the differences between standard English and non-standard English and can apply what has been learnt.

Maths in Year Five

During year 5 the children will continue to develop their fluency across all the areas of mathematics. They will work with numbers to at least 1,000,000 and determine the value of each digit. They will develop their skills of using formal written methods for addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. They will identify multiplies, factors, squares and cubes and use this knowledge to solve problems.

When working with fractions, children will compare and order fractions and read and write decimal numbers as fractions. They will solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents and those fractions with a denominator of a multiple of 10 or 25.

Children will have the opportunity to convert different units of metric measure and calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes and will calculate and compare the area of compound shapes. Children will draw given angles and measure accurately using degrees. They will distinguish between regular and irregular polygons based on reasoning about sides and angles.