Welcome to Indigo Class - Year 5

Welcome to Indigo Class! We’re a lively and thoughtful group of learners who are encouraged to take on responsibility and grow into confident, independent thinkers. Our classroom is a place for creativity, curiosity, and collaboration.

🌍 This Half Term’s Topic: Extreme Environments, Extreme Creatures 🌋❄️🦎

This half term we’re exploring Extreme Environments, Extreme Creatures. We’ll be learning about some of the most fascinating and challenging places on Earth and the incredible animals that survive there. This topic links across English, Reading, Geography, Science and more, giving children lots of opportunities to investigate, question and create.

📅 Year 5 Topics for 2025–2026

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📌 Key Information

• 🏃‍♀️ PE Day: Tuesday (Swimming) & PE Wednesday
  Children must wear their school-approved PE kit. Earrings must be removed or covered with plasters—staff cannot remove them.

• 📚 Reading Books:
  Library books can be borrowed for two weeks. Class reading books should be taken home and returned daily. Reading Logs can be written in by children or adults.

• ✏️ Spellings:
  Weekly spelling lists are provided and uploaded to Spelling Shed. These include words for the weekly spelling test and statutory Year 5/6 words.

• 💻 Homework:
  Online English and Maths activities are set weekly to reinforce classroom learning.

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📚 What We’re Learning

📖 English

This half term we will be focusing on non‑fiction writing, including information texts and persuasive writing. We will also be developing grammar skills such as:

• using the pattern of 3 for persuasion (e.g. Visit, Swim, Enjoy!)

• commas for clarity

• parenthesis using commas, brackets and hyphens

📚 Reading

We will be reading a range of fiction, non‑fiction and poetry for pleasure and to develop comprehension skills. Reading regularly at home makes a huge difference to your child’s progress.

🔢 Mathematics

This half term we will be learning about:

• rapid recall of multiplication and related division facts

• decimals

• finding simple percentages

• perimeter and area

🎵 Music

Let’s Create! Children will explore composition and performance, thinking about how music affects film and storytelling.

💻 Computing

This half term we will focus on:

• online safety

• creating our own stop‑motion animations

✝️ R.E.

Our RE question this half term is: What do Hindus believe?

🌍 Geography

We will be learning about:

• extreme environments

• different biomes

• the creatures that live there

🍳 Design & Technology

Our DT focus this half term is cooking and nutrition.

❤️ PSHE

Our PSHE theme is Relationships, including family, friends and school life.

🇫🇷 French

This half term we will be learning vocabulary linked to Les Vêtements (clothing).

🏡 How You Can Help at Home

• Help your child establish a regular homework routine

• Practise weekly spellings, including Year 5/6 statutory words

• Read with or listen to your child read daily — even 10 minutes helps

• Talk to your child about what they have learned in class

• Continue practising multiplication and division facts up to 12×

• Use Spag.com, Maths.co.uk, Spelling Shed and TTRockstars

• Check online safety updates via the UK Safer Internet Centre

📌 Please ensure your child brings a named water bottle every day.

Look out for our Parent Information Sheet below!