Year 5 2026 - 2027
Mr Briscoe
Miss Drake
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 Mrs Drake.
Ms Moore 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 see our curriculum overview via the link above.
Home Learning
Homework is uploaded weekly onto Google Classroom. It is assigned on a Monday and due in the following Monday. 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 Tuesday. Please make sure that your PE kit is in school.
Reading
Your library day is a Friday morning. Please make sure your reading book is in school every day.
Newsletters
Newsletters will be sent out at the end of each half term for the following half term via School Spider.
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.