Parson Cross CE Primary School
Year 5
As pupils move through our school, expectations of them increase in all areas of their school life: their understanding; their work; their independence; their responsibility and their engagement and enjoyment.
Starting Year 5 signifies pupils moving into Upper Key Stage 2, with only two years left before leaving us to join one of the secondary schools in which to continue their education. By the time they enter Y5, most children will have grasped the basics of many subjects and will begin to build on these foundations. These underpinning skills should enable pupils to see the links between different areas of a subject and develop deeper understanding and better facility of the discipline.
For example, in Maths, combining times-tables knowledge and rounding to estimate and check calculations; or using division facts to find common denominators when working with fractions. In English, having mastered their phonological reading skills, they can focus on higher-level understanding of texts, through inference, deduction and extending their personal vocabulary; in writing, to combine these to create convincing texts with informed choice and control.
Children’s personal development is just as important as their academic development and, as they grow and mature, more is expected of them in terms of independence, responsibility and behaviour. In Y5, children will be encouraged to think more independently and take more responsibility for their own learning, for their actions and their relations with others.
Y5 is a year in which many pupils begin to change from being little children to young people who want to assert their fledgling independence and develop their own interests and personalities; it is an exciting time to be in school.
