Year 5 2025 - 2026
Miss Large
Mr Briscoe
Welcome to the Year 5 page!
Below you will find key information about what is going on in your child's year group this year.
Teachers
Your teachers this academic year are Mr Briscoe and Miss Large.
Mrs Coulthard-Keating, Mrs Broomhead and Mrs Abbas will be supporting in upper key stage two.
Key Topics
Here are the topics that will be learning about each half term:
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
| History - What was life like in Tudor England? | Geography - Would you like to live in the desert? | Geography - Why do oceans matter? | Science - What if you were lost in space? | Geography - What is life like in the Alps? | History - How did the Maya civilisation compare to the Anglo-Saxons? |
To find out more about what we will be learning, please follow the link above to see our curriculum overview.
Home Learning
Homework is uploaded weekly onto Google Classroom. It is assigned on a Friday and due in the following Friday. This gives the children an opportunity to practise spellings and times tables whilst reviewing their reading book.
Please take a look at the files below for a handy parent guide to Google Classroom.
PE days
PE day is Wednesday. Please make sure that your PE kit is in school.
Reading
Your library day is a Friday afternoon. Please make sure your reading book is in school every day.
Newsletters
Your library day is a Friday afternoon. Please make sure your reading book is in school every day.
X (Previously Twitter)
To find out what we have been learning please visit our X page @canon_burrows. You can even comment if you like!
Contact us
If you have an queries you can contact school at admin@canonburrows.co.uk and we will get back to you as soon as possible.