Year 5

These learning resources are suitable for use with children entering Year 5.

The expectations for children entering Year 5 are:

Be able to recall the 2, 4, 8, 5, 10, 3 and 6 times table
Correctly spell all words in year 5 word lists 1 and 2

Times Tables

The expectation is for children entering Year 5 to recall all the 2, 4, 8, 5, 10, 3 and 6 times tables. Our Times Tables prompts can help you do this. Children will be tested on these number facts at the start of the Autumn term and will then continue to develop the ability to apply these facts into different contexts and problems, before progressing to consolidate the other times tables facts.

Some great Maths resources can be found online in these pages. These games require Flash to run and will work best on a desktop or laptop computer. Unfortunately they won't work on an iPad, but may work on other tablet computers.

Your children can create their own Maths activities for home practice - try making one of these activities with your children.

Create flip cards (or use a flash cards app) with the question on one side and the answer on the other side, time and race to flip the cards over
Make a times tables 'pairs' or 'snap' game
Create a times table board game

Maintain variety in learning activities to keep your child interested - these audio collections can provide a change from written or screen based exercises and also develop your child's listening abilities.

Times Table Rock is a collection of songs that help an older child memorise their times tables in a fun way, available in both CD and digital formats; CD via Amazon.co.uk and digital version via iTunes

Times tables – 2, 4, 6, 8 is a collection of songs that help younger children memorise their times tables in a fun way, available in both CD and digital formats; in CD format via Amazon.co.uk and in digital format via iTunes

Statutory Spellings

These spelling lists are for Year 5 and are statutory in the new curriculum. The lists are a mixture of words pupils frequently use in their writing and those which they often misspell. Children will be tested on these word lists at the start of the Autumn term and through regular teaching they will have the opportunity to apply these in all lessons. We will continue to test and teach these throughout the year. Over the summer holidays, practicing some of these new spellings will greatly support your child accessing the new curriculum.

Year 5 Word List 1

Achieve
Aggressive
Ancient
Attached
Available
Average
Bruise
Category
Competition
Develop
Dictionary
Embarrass
Especially
Excellent
Forty
Frequently
Identity
Language
Marvellous
Occupy
Occur
Persuade
Queue
Stomach
Vegetable

Year 5 Word List 2

Accompany
Awkward
Cemetery
Desperate
Familiar
Immediate
Immediately
Leisure
Lightning
Muscle
Necessary
Physical
Recognise
Rhyme
Rhythm
Shoulder
Signature
Sincere
Sincerely
Soldier
Suggest
Symbol
System
Thorough
Variety
Vehicle
Persuade

Writing

There are many opportunities for children to write over the summer holidays – perhaps writing a journal, shopping lists, postcards from holidays, or writing book reviews of books read in our Summer Reading Challenge.

When your child is writing, focus on their their spellings and handwriting, as well as challenging them to use better language and sentence structures (i.e. connectives).

There are many resources available online to support you and your child in English over the summer, including the New National Curriculum for English:

Using computer or tablet based games offers children the opportunity to have an interactive learning experience, beyond simply reading and writing. These games are a good starting point to support continued English learning:

Topic Spellings

In addition to the Statutory Spellings, children will be learning to spell topic specific words. A detailed introduction to the topic children will be following each term in our Year 4 Curriculum pages.

Galaxy
Universe
Solar System
Orbit
Gravity
Constellation
Meteor
Rotation
Eclipse
Astronomy
Hemisphere
Spherical
Satellite
Clockwise
Anti-clockwise
Astronaut