Year 5 Cherry Class 

Curriculum Information Page

 

Welcome to the Year 5 (Cherry Class) page.

We hope this provides you with important information to support your child's learning this year. 

Please do get in contact if there is anything that I can help you with.

Miss Palmer. 

   

Miss Palmer  jpalmer@necton'norfolk.sch.uk

  

 What we will be learning this Summer Term 2026...

 

This term’s enquiry question is:

Is everything in life a cycle? 

 

This is what we will be learning about in each subject area:

 

English: The Dreadful Menace – creating a personification poem based on a season (water colour backgrounds); Why Water’s Worth It? – information leaflet on water; Bert – characterising speech and dialogue; Visiting the Norfolk Broads -persuasuasion speech/drama. 

Maths: Decimals and percentages; shape; area; measurement; statistics; 4 calculations; reasoning and problem solving.  

Science: Living processes and animals; plants and human life-cycles. 

Computing: Programming – Selection in quizzes. 

History: History of The Norfolk Broads and how the physical features have changed. 

Geography: Rivers and the water cycle; physical features in our local area (linked to The Norfolk Broads).

Music: Harmonies and melodies. Ukulele and singing. 

RE: What can we learn about the world/knowledge/meaning of life from the great philosophers? (Buddhist and Christian); How do Hindus make sense of the world? (Hinduism)

Art: 3D -Alberto Giacometti; pointillism linked to river animals.

DT: Textiles - notebook covers.

French: Parts of the body; describing eyes and hair; days of the week; character descriptions.

PE: Swimming (Summer 2); cricket; OAA; Forest School; athletics.

Life Skills: Kindness and Prejudice (homophobic language); basic First Aid (recovery position and choking).

 

How you can help your child with their learning:

• Use the Knowledge Organisers and KIRFS (at the bottom of this page) to help your child learn the information we are exploring.
• Hear your child read and discuss the story with them, asking questions about what has happened. Writing a few notes in the reading record will help us see how they are getting on with their reading and they can also earn merits for this too! 
• Encourage your child to check they have everything they will need in school each day (especially a reading book and their ‘Reading Record’).
• Practise times tables and spellings. Children will learn spelling patterns in school but will need to practice the spellings at home. Spellings can be found in the classroom and below. 
• Logins for Spelling Shed and Times table Rock Stars can be found at the front of the children's reading records. 

 

Other things to remember:

• We will be doing PE on Mondays. Please make sure your child comes to school in their kit for these days. PE will be outside when possible, so they will need to wear something appropriate for the weather. Please ensure all PE kit is either blue, black or white or with the school logo on. 
• After half term, the children will be going swimming on Fridays. Please ensure that the children come to school in their uniform with their swimming things in a separate bag.
• Children need to remove earrings for PE lessons (or cover with tape if they cannot be removed)
• Please remember to name all school uniform - then we can return all of the stray jumpers we find!
• Please ensure hair is tied up at all times. 

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES THIS TERM: 

 

Summer Term Knowledge Organisers:

 

living things knowledge organiser.pdf

 

rivers knowledge organiser.pdf