Important update from TheSchoolRun
For the past 13 years, TheSchoolRun has been run by a small team of mums working from home, dedicated to providing quality educational resources to primary school parents. Unfortunately, rising supplier costs and falling revenue have made it impossible for us to continue operating, and we’ve had to make the difficult decision to close. The good news: We’ve arranged for another educational provider to take over many of our resources. These will be hosted on a new portal, where the content will be updated and expanded to support your child’s learning.
What this means for subscribers:
- Your subscription is still active, and for now, you can keep using the website as normal — just log in with your usual details to access all our articles and resources*.
- In a few months, all resources will move to the new portal. You’ll continue to have access there until your subscription ends. We’ll send you full details nearer the time.
- As a thank you for your support, we’ll also be sending you 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep.
A few changes to be aware of:
- The Learning Journey weekly email has ended, but your child’s plan will still be updated on your dashboard each Monday. Just log in to see the recommended worksheets.
- The 11+ weekly emails have now ended. We sent you all the remaining emails in the series at the end of March — please check your inbox (and spam folder) if you haven’t seen them. You can also follow the full programme here: 11+ Learning Journey.
If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you for being part of our journey it’s been a privilege to support your family’s learning.
*If you need to reset your password, it will still work as usual. Please check your spam folder if the reset email doesn’t appear in your inbox.
Year 5 English Progress checks
Our Y5 English Progress checks, prepared by a KS2 teacher, have been written to help you understand where your child might need extra support and practice to help boost their confidence with literacy skills.
The tests cover spelling, grammar, punctuation, handwriting and text-level work.
The Progress checks are designed to follow TheSchoolRun's Learning Journey for that particular term. Please note: they cannot and will not necessarily follow what your child’s teacher is doing at school this week / term, as teachers tend to choose to cover objectives in an order that they feel suits their class. Therefore, don’t worry if your child cannot complete certain questions; the point of the Progress checks is to help parents identify where children might need extra help and practice.
Y5 English objectives explained
By the end of the school year children should be confident with the following:
Y5 reading
- continuing to read an increasingly wide range of fiction, poetry, plays and non-fiction texts
- reading fiction texts, both modern and old and from other cultures and traditions
- preparing poems and plays to read aloud and to perform showing understanding through intonation and volume
- in reading comprehension, inferring characters' feelings from their actions and justifying inferences with evidence from the text
- discussing how authors use figurative language
- distinguishing between fact and opinion
Y5 writing
- using further prefixes and suffixes when spelling words and understand the guidance for adding them
- spelling some words with silent letters
- learning the correct spelling of more difficult homophones (words which sound the same but are spelt differently)
- using a dictionary and a thesaurus
- using adverbs and adverbials to explain how something is being done
- writing with neat, legible handwriting; write with increasing speed
- using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
- using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity
- learning to select appropriate grammar and vocabulary
- describing settings, characters and atmosphere in narratives and integrate dialogue
- carefully structuring texts with a range of organisational devices, including time connectives, paragraphs, headings, bullet points, underlining.
- assessing and improving the effectiveness of their writing
For more information about what your child learns in Year 5 English read our parents' guide; you can also browse all our Y5 English worksheets or follow our Learning Journey for Y5 English.
