Farsley Farfield Primary School

Year 5 News

Sweet Treat at the End of the Week.

21/03/2025 · No comments yet

English In English, we have been working on writing interesting paragraphs that include a variety of sentence types. These are description, action and dialogue sentences, and the author of the Explorer, Katherine Rundell, uses these to good effect in her novels. We based our writing this week on the video Catch It. As it Read More

Every good story has a happy ending.

07/03/2025 · No comments yet

Another busy week has come and gone. 5B had a very welcome visitor this week when Mr Kenvyn and baby Margot popped in to say hello. Whilst in class, she brushed up on her “adding expression” skills by reading a chapter this half term’s book, The Explorer, to the class. World Book Day The Read More

Year 5 this week and next!

28/02/2025 · No comments yet

Good afternoon all, This week the children in 5KH have created an excellent performance in music with Ms Howells. We have finished our unit of work on fractions. Here are some videos if the children would like to recap ready to do their homework. In Science the children enjoyed, planning how to, and then Read More

Love is in the Air

14/02/2025 · No comments yet

The last few weeks seem to have flown by and the cold weather of January has been replaced by… the cold weather of February. Surely, spring cannot be far away. English The final week of the half term has seen the classes perform scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The script have been written Read More

Cartwright Hall

31/01/2025 · No comments yet

This week, both classes made the short trip into Bradford to visit the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery. Whilst there, the groups compared artifacts from the Early Islamic Empire and Britain around 1000 years ago. We also looked at a selection of paintings inspired by Islam then tried to replicate some of the decorative aspects Read More

Outside at last

17/01/2025 · No comments yet

Science After a very snowy week last week, we have finally been able to get out into the grounds at playtimes. We also took the opportunity to look around the school and investigate the condition of the building as part of our materials topic. Whilst some aspects were found to be in need of Read More

Happy New Year!

10/01/2025 · 1 comment

Good afternoon parents and carers and welcome back after the break! Although there has been a tricky start to the term weather wise, the children have coped fantastically with changes to routine and have really impressed us with their excellent learning attitude and effort so far. This week in Science we started work on Read More

Merry Christmas

20/12/2024 · 3 comments

The final week of term is always packed, but this week has also been an outstanding and memorable one in Year 5. The highlight of the week for everyone were the two performance of Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits. As you can imagine, the childen were on quite a high after Wednesday’s show, Read More

Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits

19/12/2024 · 1 comment

We hope that everyone enjoyed the KS2 show: Ali Baba and the Bongo. It was an ambitious show, with stage roles for almost all Y5 children, and support roles for others. Children in other year groups became the chorus, supported by a Y6 band. This was a very talented and enthusiastic year group. It Read More

A Walk into the Past

06/12/2024 · No comments yet

Good evening. The end of the half term is fast approaching and this week has been as busy as ever. Rehearsals have been taking place again and we have been very impressed with the way everyone has learned their lines. We have been encouraging the actors to enjoy the spotlight and ensure their delivery Read More