Year 5 2025 - 2026
This year, the Year 5 Teaching Team are Mr Richard Johnson, Miss Masie Clements (TA) and Mr Callum Pope (TA)
The children will also be taught by Miss Tash Ebbutt, Miss Sarah Butcher (MfL) and our Sports Coaches, Mr Marc Troman and Mrs Katie Whenman.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the class teaching team by emailing this address: yr5@beacon-ce-primary.devon.sch.uk
Class Letters
Reading
We are highly keen to encourage children’s reading for pleasure and enjoyment. As part of our school provision, children will have a school library book. This should come to and from school daily for the children to read and enjoy. Please share this reading with them and foster their love of reading.
Home Learning
Home learning activities will be sent out on a Friday to be returned the following Thursday. This will be focused on Maths, Grammar and Spelling. Children will be given home learning books which will contain the activities they are working on that week. These are to be brought to school each Thursday ready for the next week’s activities.
Times Table Rockstars is available for homework at... https://ttrockstars.com/
Topics
This term, our topic is Britain at War; we will be studying the causes, events and consequences of the First and Second World Wars, the influence of new inventions on warfare, how life in Great Britain was affected and the legacy of the wars in the post-war period.
Our Science topic is Human Reproduction and Ageing where we will be learning about animal life cycles, including the human life cycle. We explore human growth and development to old age, including the changes experienced during puberty and human reproduction.
PE Days
This half term, children will be having PE on Tuesdays and Wednesdays so please send your child to school in their PE uniforms on these days.
Year 5/6 Spellings
Alongside the regular practice of homework spelling, there a set of Year 5/6 spellings that children are expected to know by the end of the two-year phase. Please practise these words regularly with your child.
