Tolethorpe Class - Year 5

Welcome to Autumn Term 1 in Tolethorpe Class 2025-26!

Welcome back to school and to an exciting new year in Tolethorpe Class! We are beginning the year with our topic “Argonauts, Monsters and Minotaurs”, which will take us on a journey back to Ancient Greece.

As Historians, we’ll explore what life was like in Ancient Greece, looking at their myths and legends, their achievements, and how they have influenced the modern world.

In English, our main text will be Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. We’ll use this story to inspire our own writing—creating detailed character and setting descriptions, and even writing diary entries from a character’s point of view.

In Maths, we’ll be focusing on place value, addition and subtraction, and starting to develop our skills in multiplication and division.

Our Science lessons will focus on the properties and changes of materials. Through lots of practical experiments, we’ll discover how materials can be separated, mixed, and changed.

In Art, we’ll be creating seascapes inspired by the work of William Turner, developing our skills in drawing, painting and collage.

PE will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. This half term, we’ll be developing our fitness and building our skills in netball.

In RE, we’ll be exploring the question “What kind of king is Jesus?”, while in PSHE we’ll be thinking about identity and belonging through our theme “Being Me in My World”.

It promises to be a brilliant start to the year, full of creativity, curiosity and challenge!

 I will continue to keep you up to date with our learning developments and give general messages and reminders out on Class Dojo.  'Knowledge Organisers' which are available for key subjects continue to be available on Class Dojo.  These contain some key facts regarding our term's learning; it is important for children to know these.

I continue to value working in partnership with you, so please do keep in touch. If you have any problems at all, please contact me by email: r.thorpe@ryhall.pdet.org.uk

Mrs Thorpe, Tolethorpe Class Teacher 

• Autumn Term 1 Medium Term Plan download_for_offline
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• Tolethorpe Long Term Plan 2025-26 download_for_offline
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• Year 5 Recommended Reads download_for_offline
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