Hello and welcome to Year 5!
We work hard and always try our best. We are building our self belief and resilience. Want to find out what we have been learning about? Read our blog from the link below!
Meet the team:
Year 5
Mr Buckton
Class Teacher
Miss Gray
Class Teacher
Mrs Gillies
Teaching Assistant
Mrs Collins
Teaching Assistant (1-1)
Mrs O'Sullivan
Teaching Assistant (1-1)
Meet the Teacher Information
Year 5 Termly Newsletters
Year 5 Curriculum Map
Reading:
Please try and read with your child every night. Really focus on asking questions about their book as this will help them with their reading comprehension.
Finally, if there are any questions or concerns please feel free to speak to any of us before or after the school day.
Keep in touch by checking our page often and discover what we are learning about through our regular blog posts!
Home Learning:
We use Google Classroom as the main source of home school learning.
We find this works really well with our Chromebooks in school and allows children to pick up their tasks and work from their devices at home.
The link to our Google classroom is here: Y5 Google Classroom 2025-26 (Login details are required to access)
Our Trips:
In Year 5, we have exciting trips planned to the following places:
Autumn term: CHET Residential (Crosby Hall Education Trust)
Related Events
Open Evening
Open Evening
Related Blog Posts
Traitors - Arithmetic
We continued our traitor games but this time with arithmetic practice.
The children worked well in groups even with the traitors trying to influence answers.
How do we test the hardness of materials?
Today we explored the hardness of materials are there everyday use in life.
Working in groups, we examined which rocks could be scratched by different objects and then explained which would be suitable to use for different purposes.
As a class, we identified that granite and marble are…
Collage
We have been creating collages using different strips of paper and pictures. The collages represent natural features such as the bark of the tree.


