Year 5
Year 5 Curriculum Projects
Year 5 Project - Off With Her Head!
What sort of man would order the beheading of his wife? Was she really that bad? Travel back in time to the 1500s and meet the terrifying Tudors, a domineering dynasty that changed our history. Discover an opulent court where dancing and singing goes hand in hand with swift falls from favour, and even swifter falling of heads. Develop your painting skills in miniature, solve riddles and remember to protect your precious neck with a large white ruff, if you want to survive at Tudor court. Flex your detective muscles and become a criminal investigator. Will you find out the facts or will the evidence from the past bemuse you? How will you find the accused, innocent or guilty? It’s your turn to take part in one of the most famous trials that the world has ever known.
Memorable Experience - Elizabeth I deathbed scene
This project is also supported by mini projects in:
Science: Properties and Changes in Materials
Geography - Investigating Our World
Art and Design: Expression
Design and Technology: Moving Mechanisms
Computing: derived from D.A.R.E.S
Music: derived from Kapow
PE: Lacrosse and Athletics derived from TeamThemeKent Resources
PSHE: derived from Jigsaw
RE: derived from Kent SACRE Curriculum and Cornerstones RE projects
More information about the Year 5 Curriculum can be found in the YEAR 5 Long Term Plan 2024 document found below.
Year 5 Key Information
PE lessons for Term 4 are timetabled for Tuesday and Friday every week.
Homework for this week:
- MATHS -
- ENGLISH - practise your spellings on Spelling Shed
- READING - Please continue to complete 20 minutes of reading every day and make a note in your reading record.
Spellings Honey Bees (tested on Friday):
are
our
half
calf
calm
palm
qualm
behalf
embalm
draught
draft
aunt
laugh
barred
charred
scarred
clerk
sergeant
Berkshire
English
W/C 8.9.25 (4 week unit)
We are working through our unit on Punctuation and Grammar. Nouns/Verbs/Subjects/
Clauses will all be covered.
Spellings Bumble Bees (tested on Friday):
father
past
draft
grasp
chance
glance
staff
are
our
half
calf
calm
palm
Spellings Worker Bees (tested on Friday):
car
far
arm
park
garden
past
last
Maths:
W/C 08.09.25 (two weeks)
We are continuing our unit on Place Value. This will involved reading and writing numbers up to 1,000,000, using a Gattegno chart to work out Powers of 10, calculating 1/10/100/1,000/10,000/
100,000 more and less, comparing, ordering and rounding will all be covered.
Other information:
PE Term 1
Tuesday: Tennis
Thursday: Tag Rugby
Remember named PE kits on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Please can everyone bring a water bottle to school every day.
Don't forget to bring reading books and reading records, please.
Please ensure that wellies are brought into school.
Year 7 admissions for September 2026
KENT TEST - INFORMATION FOR SEPTEMBER 2025
A meeting to discuss the application process and next steps for this year's Kent Test was held on Wednesday 21st May 2025. A copy of the presentation shared at this meeting can be found below. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the school office office@lenham.kent.sch.uk
APPLYING FOR A PLACE IN YEAR 7 FOR SEPTEMBER 2026
A meeting to discuss the application process, for admission to Year 7, was held on Wednesday 25th June 2025. A copy of the presentation shared at this meeting can be found below. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the school office office@lenham.kent.sch.uk