Welcome to Year 5.
Our Teachers are Mrs Bland and Mrs Poole and our Teaching Assistants are Mrs Yiu and Miss Felgueiras.
Sep 192025
Flown by this week has!
We have really enjoyed learning more about Origami Yoda and are now ready to write our discussion texts next week. Can Origami Yoda really predict the future and use the force?
In Maths we have been honing our place value skills and counting in powers of ten. We have also made a start on ensuring that our times tables knowledge is really secure. Please continue to practise these so that your child is confident using them as we use them all over the Maths curriculum!
In RE we have been continuing to look at Judaism and considered why certain artefacts were important for jewish people in their prayer lives.
In Science we conducted an experiment to see what properties certain materials had. We predicted, carried out an experiment and wrote a method using scientific language.
Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday!
Sep 122025
First week in Year 5!
We’ve had a great week back at school in Year 5 full of predicting the future, the Ancient Greeks and sadly a lot of rain!
In English we started our new class book called “The Strange Case of Origami Yoda” so we are learning to talk like Yoda and consider whether he could be real or not… Is Dwight secretly a genius?
In Maths we have been recapping Place Value and reading and writing numbers up to the millions! Keep practising at home and remember that the zeros are important. A challenge could be trying to partition a number with decimals in.
Thank you for all the shoeboxes – we have designed our moving toys so will enjoying decorating and creating our Ancient Greek themed mechanisms over the next few weeks.
Have a lovely weekend and see you on Monday!
Jul 182025
Another week down…
Wow! Only 1 and a half days until the Summer holidays! We’ve had a lovely week and are sad to be coming to the end of our time in Year 5… we will miss you all!
Today Forest Class completed their Pi Skylines using watercolours. How many decimal places do you know Pi to?
On Tuesday, Year 5 took part in the £5 challenge and for the first year ever we SOLD OUT!!!!!! Thank to everyone who supported us by buying our products and well done Year 5 for putting lots of time and effort into your crafting!
Have a lovely weekend and hope you don’t get too soggy in the rain!
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Jul 112025
The penultimate week!
This week we have been working hard on our Horrible Histories leaflets about Victorian Inventions. We have some very humorous and punny people in Year 5!
We have also been looking at Roman Numerals. It’s quite hard to remember the rules and orderings of them – anything involving 4 and 9 means that you need to do some subtraction. It’s been great to see the children get stuck into challenges!
Thank you to everyone who came to open evening – it was a lovely time and great to see all the children’s hard work. We can all now say we are proper artists as our work has been in a gallery!
We have been working hard to get ready for our £5 challenge next week! So much creativity has gone into creating our goods and we’re confident that we will make a sizeable profit! Thank you Mrs Carter for reading our persuasive letters and allowing us to go ahead with the sale!
Have a lovely weekend in the sun and see you next week for the final full week of Year 5!
Jul 042025
Week 5 highlights
Forest class have had an artistic week completing their art project. We based our artwork on a poem called “Woodland Magic”. Firstly, we created colours by mixing paints. Then we chopped and stuck down shapes. Lastly, we used carbon copy paper to write words and make marks on top of our work. The finished results look really effective!
In English, we have started our new unit on Horrible Histories. We aim to create a leaflet on Victorian Inventions written in the style of Horrible Histories. We’ve had great fun already taking facts and putting them into rhymes, adverts, menus and much more.
In Maths, we’ve continued to look at a variety of graphs and interpreted the data. We also identified the best graphs to use for continuous and discrete data.
Have a wonderful weekend and see you on Monday!
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Jun 272025
What a great week!
Another busy week in year 5 ending with Careers Day! We were lucky to have some great speakers and activities and the senior orchestra performed wonderfully with our visiting orchestra in the afternoon.
Our trip to the Victorian was wonderful (if not a bit scary). We can’t believe how strict they were back then! The children represented the school wonderfully and got involved with the acting.
The children worked hard this week to write persuasive letters to Mrs Carter, asking if we could hold the £5 challenge. Fingers crossed that we were persuasive enough – we’ll find out next week!
Have a lovely sunny weekend and enjoy the fair!
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Jun 202025
Week 3 already?
We’ve had a great week in Year 5 and finished our English Unit on Origami Yoda. The children wrote excellent discussion texts outlining the possibilities of whether Origami Yoda can predict the future in a very balanced and fair way. Well done everyone!
We were lucky enough to take part in an archery workshop yesterday, where lots of new skills were learned.
In Maths we have been focussing on word problems and how to approach them. Underline the key information and identify how many steps there are. Sometimes you also need to work backwards in order to identify an original number.
In History, we learnt all about Florence Nightingale and we are enjoying our topic on the Victorians. The homework is linked to the Victorians so get creative with your artwork!
Have a lovely weekend in the sunshine and see you on Monday!
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Jun 132025
Week 2 – Wow that flew!
We have been enjoying reading Origami Yoda in English and we even wrote like Yoda – So clever we are!
In Maths, we have been looking at telling the time, converting between units of time and reading timetables – Now everyone will be experts at taking the bus or train!
We have been learning more about the Victorians, particularly looking at their inventions and created some wonderful timelines packed full of information and pictures.
Well done everyone for a great week and have a lovely weekend in the sunshine!
Jun 062025
Busy Bees
It’s been a great first week back at school with 2 school trips!
On Wednesday we visited St Albans Museum and took part in a Victorian Courtroom workshop where we acted out real court cases from the Victorian times. Some of the punishments were really horrible! Loving the outfits everyone – they really suit you!
On Thursday, we were lucky enough to attend a STEM day at Abbots Hill school and took part in lots of activities! There was Science, Orienteering, Maths, Art, Product Design and Computing.
We’ve also started our new English unit on “The Strange Case of Origami Yoda” and have been looking at scaling in Maths.
Have a lovely weekend and see you on Monday for another week of fun!
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May 232025
Half term already?
After another busy half term, we are ready for a well-deserved week off!
It was lovely finishing the day with Sports Day and everyone should be very proud of themselves. An especially big well done to Sage class as they won!
We have finished our English topic on “Curiosity – the story of a Mars rover”. We finished with writing a proposal to NASA using detailed labels on our rover designs.
This week in Maths we’ve been looking at converting between some more unusual forms of measure – pints, pounds (lb) and inches. It’s also good to keep recapping the metric system to ensure we know how many cm in a m etc.
Have a lovely week and let’s hope for some sunshine!
