It’s been a busy week in year 5. We’ve started our new topic on the Olympics and are preparing for our non-chronological report writing next week. The Ancient Olympic Games sounded epic but quite brutal and unfair! In Maths, we have been looking at decimal numbers and rounding, adding, subtracting and ordering them. Keep getting …
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Oct 03 2025
Top Trumps!
In English we have read ‘The Castle the King Built’ and written some great sentences about the people who helped the King. We thought about their skills and the materials they used and why. For example the blacksmith who melted and hammered metal to make horseshoes and armour. In Maths we have really thought about …
Oct 03 2025
Amazing Antarctica!
This week we have travelled to Antarctica as part of our topic work. We have spent time reading books and watching videos to help us to understand what you would see in Antarctica and how cold the climate is there. We have been amazed by the range of animals that survive and live in such …
Oct 03 2025
All About Friendships!
In Phonics we have taught the sounds u, r, ss and h. We have continued to segment and blend words for reading and writing. We have also enjoyed thinking of words that start with these initial sounds. The ‘harder to read and spell words’ this week were ‘into’ and ‘go’. We were practising to use …
Oct 03 2025
How much do you know about the Ancient Egyptians?
This week we have been working really hard on our non-chronological reports about Ancient Egyptian lifestyles. Following on from our research last week, we have put together our own paragraphs on topics such as beliefs, sport and pets. We used research questions as our subheadings and tried to use precise language. In maths, we have …
Oct 03 2025
Back to the Stone Age!
This week Year 3 children were transported back to the Stone Age! When we entered the hall on Tuesday, we were suprised to find a cave man from this prehistoric era! He was making his own tools, wore animal skins as clothes and had to hunt for his food. He even tried to create fire …
Oct 03 2025
SATs, Spellings and Substances
As you’ve probably heard, we had a go at some SATs questions this week, completing a set of past papers. We have started early in order to identify particular areas of focus for the coming months. We find that it is also a way to prepare the children for May so they have a good …
