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 - Practise your TT RockStars
- 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 Week beginning 29.09.2025 /e/
Honey Bees:
eceive
proceed
precede
appreciate
frequently
deceive
magazine
steel
convenience
ceiling
ravine
committee
familiar
conceive
marine
immediately
perceive
limousine
protein
achieve
English
W/C 29.9.25 (2 week unit)
W/c 29.9.2025 we have started a two week unit entitled, 'A Wife for Henry'. The children will be preparing a written speech to present a new wife to King Henry VIII. We will be looking at chronology, persuasion, and use of (correctly punctuated) co-ordinating conjunctions to extend our sentences.
Bumble Bees:
breathe
peace
thief
field
believe
machine
marine
brief
magazine
proceed
Worker Bees:
tree
week
seen
meat
these
complete
extreme
Maths:
W/C 22.09.25 (two weeks)
We are starting our unit on Addition and Subtraction.
We will be using mental strategies, adding and subtracting using the column method for 4 and more digits, using inverse and rounding to check answers, completing multi-step problems and comparing numbers.
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.
Spellings Week beginning 06.10.2025 /er/
Honey Bees:
grammar
particular
peculiar
popular
regular
journey
adjourn
courteous
stirred
occurred
recurred
blurred
deterred
referred
transferred
preferred
centre
metre
calendar
altar
Worker Bees:
girl
hurt
person
work
world
first
church
summer
Bumble Bees:
popular
regular
person
journey
stirred
world
blurred
centre
metre
peculiar
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