Welcome to Year 5!

Welcome to Year 5 2025/2026.

Our Year 5 team; Mrs Alcoe, Mr Mason and Miss Kirkman.

We look forward to guiding you through your first year as Upper Key Stage Two and all of the extra responsibilities (and fun) that go with Year 5!

Year 5 Team 2025/2026

Class teachers:         Mrs Alcoe (Mon & Tues am, Wed, Thurs, Fri )

                                    Mr Mason (Mon pm & Tuesday pm)

Teaching assistant:   Miss Kirkman

This term, on a Friday afternoon, we will be visiting the Boys school.  We are in two groups which will swap after half term.  One group will be doing a computing lesson, learning about coding and algorithms and the other group will be in the library reading with some of the Sixth Form students.

Music

In music, we are exploring songs of South and West Africa, singing some a cappella. Our most recent, Shosholoza, is a call and response song. Here is the children's performance.

Christmas Art

Was Jesus The Messiah?

Our current RE topic is Incarnation, specifically asking the question: "Was Jesus The Messiah?"

To help our discussion and investigation we looked at the struggles of the Jewish people in the Old Testament, some of the prophecies foretold by people like Elijah about the Messiah and examined the life of Jesus. Messiah, Saviour and Chosen One were labels that we tried to assign.

During the topic, we produced Messiah wanted posters, investigated the prophecies in the old testament and designed a page showcasing Messiah their predictions and finally, decorated images of Christmas, which included phrases such as: Jesus, saviour of the world; Jesus the Messiah; Hallelujah! The Messiah is here; King of Kings; The saviour is born in Bethlehem; and Jesus, the descendant of David. 

Ink Art - Expression

Using the artwork of Charlie Mackesy as inspiration, we used felt tips and water to create some wonderful pieces representing childhood memories.

Buddhism Week

During Buddhism week, we read the story of the Buddha and learned about the Four Noble Truths and the Eight-fold Path, which the Buddha advised his followers to adhere to in order to attain enlightenment.

Crosses Around the World

As part of our work in RE, exploring Christian symbols around the world, we looked at and made the cross of nails. This originated from the devastation of the blitz in World War II, when Coventry Cathedral was destroyed during a bombing raid in November 1940. Found in the resulting embers, was a cross made of wood and medieval nails that had fused into a cross of nails.

After the war, crosses were made from nails and sent to children in Germany as a sign of peace and reconciliation.  We used this premise and Jesus' teachings for our own messages.

Poetry Week

During Poetry Week, last week, Year 5 looked at war poems as inspiration to create cinquain poems; a cinquain poem is one which has a set syllable pattern within 5 lines.

We read a selection of war poems and particularly focused on 'In Flanders Fields' by John McCrae.

We hope you enjoy reading our poems!

Thank you for coming to the 'Meet the Teacher' session on Monday.  It was lovely to see you.

Please don't worry if you were unable to make it, we have attached the presentation below.

If there are any questions or queries, please come and speak with a member of the year 5 team or send an email via admin.

Many thanks.

Class email

(for home learning communication only)

year5@stmichaels.herts.sch.uk

Please refer to Google Classroom for Home Learning.

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