Year 5
Welcome to Year 5’s class page…
Welcome to the Year 5 page of our website! Below you will find lots of useful information about our class as well as what we have been up to.
My name is Mr Knight and I am the Year 5 class teacher. I am delighted to say that Mrs Jackson will be helping us with our learning in the mornings, and Mr McKeown will join us for part of the afternoons. We also Have Mrs Hayes on Friday afternoon as well.
On Friday mornings, Mrs Spacey teaches Maths and French and Miss Mallinson teaches music.
We work extremely hard in Year 5, whilst having lots of fun, and are becoming more and more independent in every way.
This term’s Stars!
We have our Star Award Assembly on Friday afternoons where we celebrate the hard work carried out by one of our Year 5 children. Well done to all of our recent Star Award winners:
Things to know about…
Reading (every day) – Your child should read at home every day (independently or to an adult), record it in their Reading Diary and get it signed or initialled by an adult at home. It is really helpful if you can chat to your child and show an interest in what they are reading, what their opinion about the book is and get them to make predictions about what will happen next based on what they have read.
Please make sure your child’s Reading Diary and reading book are in everyday!
Once they have finished their book, they will complete a test on our Accelerated Reader system to allow us to monitor their progress.
Learn spellings (every day) – New lists are given on Friday for your child to learn for a test on the following Friday. The lists are in the back of your child’s diary, but you can view all of the lists in one document by clicking here.
Maths times tables (every day) – Each week, the children are given a times table to focus on learning ready for a test on the following Friday. If your child knows their times tables very well, they will be tested on decimal numbers. For example, 0.6 x 3=   23.5 x 4 =  After Christmas, we look at problem solving and reasoning questions using our times tables knowledge.
English and Maths Homework – English and Maths homework will be given on a Friday to be in the following Friday. The homework will be based on work done in class that week and you should not spend more than 20-30 minutes on each piece. We will work through any misunderstandings in class.
PE – We have our PE sessions on Monday afternoon and Thursday morning. Please make sure that full PE kit is in every day and has your child’s name written on the label. Kits will be sent home at the end of the term so that they can be washed.
Year 5’s Latest News
Dance Festival 2025
We are so very proud of our Dance Festival team who were absolutely amazing when they performed on stage at The Winter Gardens. Each of them was a real credit to our school and joy to take to the event showing impeccable behaviour whilst in the holding area and...
Year 5 Volleyball
Year 5 had great fun trying the new sport of Volleyball. We had a go at different serving styles and made some fabulous rallies. There were even some pretty amazing spikes!
Year 5 DT Mechanical Toys
Year 5 worked incredibly hard and showed great perseverance and accuracy to design and make some wonderful animal themed toys with a mechanical element for their DT projects.
Year 5 Rockstars Day
Year 5 came dressed ready for action on our Rockstar Day. Their outfits were fabulous and they worked incredibly hard to increase their times tables knowledge and scores.Â
Year 5 Bikeability
Year 5 had a fabulous time getting out and about on their bikes when they did their Bikeability training. We learnt all about riding safely on the roads, how to signal and how to use junctions confidently. You might have seen us riding around Kirkham and the...
Year 5 Class Prayer and Liturgy
Each week, Year 5 deliver a Prayer and Liturgy that they have planned based around a theme. Everyone is prayerful and reflective and they always bring us closer to God.
Year 5 Tag Rugby
Year 5 have been focusing on the skills and rules needed to play Tag Rugby. It is extremely demanding and needed all of our concentration and strength, but we have absolutely loved it and played some nail-biting matches.
Year 5 Science – Forces
Year 5 have been working incredibly hard in Science learning all about forces. We investigated friction, air resistance and gravity, used Newton Metres to measure some forces, and investigated how we could speed up or slow down autogyros. We witnessed a bowling ball...
Year 5 Poetry Day
Year 5 started the day by learning about rhyme, How words can match at the end of a line. We thought about rhythms, steady and clear, And listened to patterns that we could hear. We talked about sounds like bang and splash, Onomatopoeia made our poems flash. We mixed...
Year 5 Forest School
Year 5 had a fabulous morning at Forest School. Here are a few photos to show what we got up to.
Year 5 Orienteering
Year 5 showed wonderful teamwork, map reading skills and energy during our orienteering taster session.
Year 5 Science Air Resistance
Year 5 had a fabulous afternoon learning all about air resistance. We stopped a ruler with a piece of paper and ran around with a carrier bag to feel the force, then we played with the parachutes to experience it on a larger scale. Finally, we made paper planes and...
KS2 Colour Run!
On Monday 14th July, the whole school held an amazing colour run afternoon as an end of year celebration. KS2 children combined the colour run with a 'wet and wild' fun run, with a 200m course set up around the school field where teachers were stationed throwing holi...
Year 5 History
Year 5 had a fabulous afternoon when Joseph came to teach us all about Ancient Greek houses. The best part was that we got to build our own houses out of Lego!
Year 5/6 Euro Football Tournament
Year 5 and 6 came together for a wonderful morning playing football. The sportsmanship was fantastic with many smiling faces and high-fives, as well as some near misses and cracking goals. Everyone gave it their best and had lots of fun.
Year 5 Presentations
One of my favourite parts of the year is when Year 5 do their presentations and this year, they were amazing. Everyone made eye contact with their audience, spoke clearly and at a good volume, and used their slides to enhance their subject. Well done, Year 5, you...
Year 5 Mathemagical Day
The whole school had a wonderful morning when Mister Ree the magician came to perform. His show was absolutely amazing! He made a handkerchief appear in Mr Knight's wallet and even knew the name of Bonnie's sister! Year 5 then learnt some magic tricks that use maths...
Year 5 Visit to Liverpool World Museum
Year 5 had a fantastic day when they went to the Liverpool World Museum. There was so much to see and do that fit into our topics throughout the year. Some of our highlights were holding an actual meteorite, finding Nemo and seeing an unwrapped mummy.
Year 5 Art
Year 5 had a wonderful couple of afternoons enjoying the beautiful weather in the church grounds whilst we did some outdoor art. We explored the mixed media technique of watercolour and ink to try and capture the leaves and trees in our local environment, then we...
Year 5 RE Holy Spirit
Year 5 enjoyed the beautiful weather by visiting an outdoor gallery. We explored many pieces of art focused on the Holy Spirit as well as the Trinity and unpicked how the artist depicted each moment focusing on colour and overall mood as well as other religious...
Year 5 Computing CAD Robots
Year 5 worked incredibly hard in Computing to get their heads around using three dimensions on a flat screen. We explored many skills such as push-pull, follow me and orbit to create some fantastic details on our 3D robots. Some of them are worthy of a place in the...
Year 5 VE Celebration Day
Year 5 had a fabulous day learning all about VE Day and the evacuees during the Second World War. We watched videos of people recounting what it was like for them and explored images of the children being sent away to the countryside. Then we imagined that we were an...
Year 5 DT Embroidery
Year 5 worked extremely hard to create some fabulous embroidery pieces. We had to use a running stitch, back stitch and satin stitch as well as sew on a button and a piece of fabric. It was fiddly work, be we did so well. Our designs are based on UK landmarks and...
Year 5 Prayer and Liturgy
To help us prepare for May, the month of Mary, Year 5 led us in a beautiful prayer and liturgy all about Mary, the mother of Jesus. They were extremely prayerful and reverent and told us all about the important role that Mary played in Jesus' life and the ways that...
Year 5 Science Flowering Plants
Year 5 have been learning all about the role of a flower and the scientific processes of pollination and fertilisation. We dissected a tulip to identify the parts, made a 3D model of a flower and created a comic strip to help us remember the stages.
Year 5 Anglo-Saxon Visit
Year 5 had a fantastic morning when Mildthryth the Anglo-Saxon came to visit. She taught us all about where she and her people came from and how they settled into Britain forming Angleland and eventually one united kingdom. We learnt about Anglo-Saxon life such as how...
Year 5 Hockey
Year 5 worked extremely hard to develop our Hockey skills. It was tricky holding the stick at first, but we managed to play some heated matches in the final week. Some of us really enjoyed it and found a new talent!
Year 5 Glow Dance
Year 5 had great fun throwing some funky moves on Glow Dance Day!
Year 5 Trashion Show
Year 5 had a wonderful Science Week turning rubbish into fashion. We learnt all about the problems associate with rubbish and recycling such as land-fill, animals being endangered and renewable energy sources. We then made some amazing outfits out of rubbish and put...
Year 5 World Book Day
Year 5 had a wonderful World Book Day. We did some book quizzes and did a speed read activity where we had to give a book review of our favourite book to as many people as we could. We then created ideas for a prequel or a sequel to our favourite book. There were some...
Year 5 Safer Internet Day
Year 5 worked extremely hard on Safer Internet Day to try and understand scams. They explored ways to spot scams, created strong passwords, identified examples of phishing, created videos to help others stay safe and interrogated a website that many of them recognised...
Year 5 and Year 6 Handball
Year 5 and Year 6 pupils recently took part in an exciting inter-house handball competition, showcasing their teamwork, determination, and sporting spirit. Each house competed with enthusiasm, demonstrating excellent skills and resilience throughout the matches.
Year 5 Art Lunar Landscapes
Year 5 used Modroc to create textured pieces of art based on their studies of lunar landscapes. Then they mixed black and white paint to create different tones to recreate the appearance of the moon.
Year 5 and 6 Athletics Competition
On Tuesday 21st January, 19 children from Year 5 and 6 represented The Willows at the Fylde Inter-School Indoor Athletics Competition at Carr Hill High School. The children all took part in 2 track and 2 field events, showcasing their talent with different events in...
Year 5 Happiness Day
On Wednesday 15th January, the whole school took part in a Happiness Theme Day to beat away the January blues! Year 5 listened to a range of feel good music all day whilst they had fun creating shapes, animals and people in Maths using a set of shapes called Tangrams....