Welcome to Year 5.
Our Teachers are Mrs Bland and Mrs Poole and our Teaching Assistants are Mrs Luena and Mrs Yiu.
May 162025
The penultimate week
This week we completed our final Art project – creating maps to represent us. There was lots of creativity and they were all unique.
In Maths, we have been looking at scaling and how we can enlarge shapes accurately, as well as solving word problems with scaling amounts. Bar models come in handy to visualise what is happening!
There has been more fantastic writing English as we’ve looked at Curiosity further and even designed our own rovers! We thought about what features they should have and wrote detailed expanded noun phrases.
Thank you for all the parent volunteers for our trips next half term – we will be back in touch shortly.
Have a wonderful weekend in the sunshine 😀
May 092025
Sunshine!
What a lovely week we have had! We finished it off with some Victorian games at the field today.
Yesterday, we celebrated VE day by learning the Lindy Hop and having a dance off in the playground. We also learnt sign language for “We’ll meet again”, singing in our best old-time voices.
Forest class also had some wonderful performers this morning playing “Flight of the Bumblebee”.
We’ve continued learning about Mars and the rover (Curiosity) that was sent there, using passive voice and cohesive devices to link our ideas together.
In Maths, we’ve looked at multiplication and division, applying our skills in a range of ways and looking at how remainders are represented in fraction, decimal and whole number form.
Have a lovely weekend and see you on Monday!
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May 022025
Art-astic
Yesterday, Year 5 had a wonderful Art day based on our topic of typography. The creativity was amazing! We created letters and words with collage, made themed alphabets and drew realistic animals onto maps (straight in pen!) Well done everyone – you are all fabulous artists.
In Maths, we have been recapping our multiplication and division skills. We have learnt how to write remainders as whole numbers, fractions and decimals, including how to identify when real life situations require which type of remainder.
Both classes have now watched “The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse” and enjoyed identifying positive quotes that can help us all at different times of life. Some children even came up with their own quotes – how inspiring!
Have a lovely Bank Holiday Weekend! See you on Tuesday!
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Apr 252025
Bring on Summer!
Welcome back to Summer term! It’s already been a busy few days at school with the excitement of the new playground and lots of new topics.
In Art, we are learning about Typography and looked at lots of different fonts and styles today. We look forward to creating our own fonts and working with a range of materials. Please do bring in any unwanted maps or magazines for us to use.
In Science we looked at all the part of a flower. They are very intricate and we had to be very delicate to take them apart. Each part has a specific job.
In Maths we have been measuring angles using a protractor. We will also look at missing angles and identify them without the need for a protractor. Did you know that all the interior angles on a triangle add up to 180 degrees?
Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine!
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Apr 042025
Happy Holidays!
What a lovely way to end the term with our amazing concert this morning! The children did a brilliant job and you should all be very proud! Spend all the holidays listening to the Sound of Music and putting your Hands in the Air!
This week we finished our informative leaflets on the Mediterranean – if you’re going there in the holidays, then have fun! We used a range of grammar including subordinate clauses and relative clauses and a load of punctuation!
In Maths, we have been learning about perimeter and even had a recap on area. Make sure you don’t miss any of those sneaky sides when adding up the perimeter.
Have a wonderful holiday and enjoy the sunshine!!!
Mar 282025
A creative week!
This week in Art we finished off our theatre sets based on Chaperon Rouge. There was such creativity shown and the children worked hard to make props, 3D aspects, different textures and we even had a revolving part of the stage!
In English, we started off our unit based on the Mediterranean, doing lots of research for our leaflet next week. This also links to our Geography, where we compared Greece and the UK. Lots of great research on the Chromebooks have happened this week!
In Maths, we have been looking at translating and mirroring shapes in different quadrants. It’s been a very visual week with lots of concentration to get the coordinates and patterns reflected accurately.
Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine. We are looking forward to our Year 5 concert next Friday!
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Mar 212025
Week 4 – lots of art we saw
We enjoyed our trip to the Tate Modern this week, taking the train and basking in the sunshine. The children enjoyed sketching lots of the art (and even St Paul’s Cathedral) at lunchtime. I believe we did 18,000 steps in total! Highlights from the children include:
- Pop Art from Roy Lichtenstein
- The catbus from “My Neighbour Totoro”
- Calligraphy based work “The Shape of Words”
- Some of the Materials and Objects exhibition
We also finished our suspense/fantasy stories this week; we look forward to sharing them with our buddy classes next week.
In Maths we have been looking at 3D shapes, especially focusing on identifying and building the nets for cubes and cuboids. In Arithmetic, we also learnt how to divide fractions by whole numbers. Keep practising this at home please!
Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday!
Mar 142025
Halfway through the term!
Wow! It is only 3 weeks until the Easter holidays!
We are halfway through writing our suspense/fantasy stories and there has been such great description and imaginative ideas! We have been trying to remember to add all the punctuation for speech as well as lots of suspense techniques and imagery. Next week we will be finished and look forward to sharing them with our buddy classes Year 2.
In Maths, we have been looking at percentages and enjoyed using the Bubble Method to find percentages of amounts. Why not get your child to teach it to you this weekend?
In Art, we have started making our sets based on Chaperon Rouge, by painting the backgrounds and creating the models to go in them. They are looking great so far!
Have a lovely weekend and lets hope for some more sunshine!
Mar 072025
Keep reading!
We had a wonderful World Book Day yesterday! There was lots of reading, creativity and story writing! It was lovely to see such creative costumes and Year 5 paired up with our Year 2 buddy classes to read. It was fun to create big posters for the Library display – coming soon!
We look forward to writing our stories based on Chaperon Rouge next week. We have plans ready and now just need to start writing! In Art, we are creating sets based on the story as well – thank you for all your cardboard contributions – we are ready to start crafting next week!
In Maths, we found the link between percentages, fractions and decimals. Remember that a percentage smaller than 10 is 0.0_ as a decimal.
In Science, we created catapults with lollipop sticks and elastic bands as part of our pulleys and levers unit. We thought about how much force to apply and what alterations we could use to enhance how our catapults worked.
Have lovely weekend and see you on Monday!
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Feb 282025
First week back.
It’s been an action packed first week back with lots of creativity. In English, we looked at designing characters and settings based on the French version of Little Red Riding Hood (Chaperon Rouge). It was great to see all the effort that had been put into homework on this. Our new Art topic links with English as we are looking at set design; we will be creating sets based on the video in English. This week we explored different set designers’ work and used charcoal in different ways.
In Maths we have been using multilink all week to build cubes and cuboids. The cubes helped us to understand cubed numbers and with the cuboids we identified the different areas and volumes for them.
It was so sunny at breaktime today that Forest Class decided to stay outside to do their spelling test.
We are looking forward to our Spring concert on the last day of term and were so impressed with the amount of people that auditioned for the roles of the Von Trapp family! Such wonderful singing and confidence was seen.
Have a lovely weekend in the sunshine and see you on Monday!
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