Year 5 News
WB 11.3.24
15/03/2024 · No comments yet
Welcome to our weekly update! This week, children have been completing end-of-term assessments in English and maths. These assessments help to inform our teaching and will give us up-to-date information about your child’s progress when we meet at parent’s evening. Children don’t always enjoy completing assessments so we have made sure that the rest Read More
World Book Day
08/03/2024 · No comments yet
Good evening, Firstly, it was lovely to see all the children dressed so creatively. We had a great time trying to guess the adjectives that they had chosen. Thank you for all the effort at home. World Book Day yesterday was enjoyed across the year group. 5HB and 5KH spent an hour or so Read More
WB 19.2.24
23/02/2024 · No comments yet
We hope you all had a wonderful half-term break, filled with fun and relaxation! Can you believe we’re already more than halfway through the school year? Time flies when we’re learning and having fun! This week, the children have jumped right into our exciting new topics with great enthusiasm. Maths This week we have Read More
Is it half term already?
09/02/2024 · No comments yet
The half term after Christmas seems to fly, but the children have worked extremely hard during the last five weeks. We are hoping for drier weather soon so that we can all enjoy the school grounds, but who knows. (We suspect that rain and mud is actually more enjoyable than sunny weather for a Read More
Shakespeare and Materials in Year 5
02/02/2024 · No comments yet
Good afternoon parents and carers, This week we have continued work on the Shakespeare play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. The children have been really enthusiastic about this topic and have worked together to write some excellent playscripts. We have then chosen a scene each to perform. I was so impressed with our acting skills Read More
WB 22.1.24
26/01/2024 · No comments yet
It is hard to believe that we are over half way through this half term! The children’s learning is moving forward well and we are really enjoying this half term’s topics. Attendance this week has been extremely low with lots of children suffering from a high temperature and nasty cough. We hope that those Read More
“Give to me a fulcrum on which to plant my lever, and I will move the world.”
19/01/2024 · No comments yet
Science Our Science work this week was looking at levers and how they provide mechanical assistance. 5HB investigated what happens if you lengthen a lever, using newton meters to measure the effort required to move a bottle of fruit juice. I was very impressed with the methodical way the class worked, especially when some Read More
Happy new year from Year 5
12/01/2024 · No comments yet
Hi all, We hope you have had a lovely holiday and that the children are all feeling well rested and ready for a new term. We have got stuck in to our new year learning straight away in Year five. Our Spring term topics are: Maths – Fractions then Multiplication and Division English – Read More
Year 5 WB 18.12.23
22/12/2023 · 1 comment
Time has absolutely flown by in a very eventful and festive week! As we draw closer to the end of term, our children have been busy spreading joy and cheer, and the classrooms have been buzzing with excitement. Spectacular Show The highlight of the week was the performance of ‘Robin and The Sherwood Hoodies’. Read More
A very practical week
15/12/2023 · No comments yet
The children have been very busy this week experimenting, making, practising and performing. Our science work continues to focus on forces and this week we investigated how water resistance affects boat bow design. Working in groups, the children used modelling clay to create various shapes, which they then dropped through bubble bath, recording the Read More
