This week in Year 5 it has all been about the £5 Challenge. The children worked extremely hard to put the final touches to their products ready for our sale on Wednesday. There was a great range of products on offer from pet rocks to bracelets to food and drink to games. During the sale, …
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Year 5 – Forest & Sage
Jul 03 2026
Welcome to this week’s Year 5 blog update
It has been another productive week in Year 5 as we fly through the summer term. In our maths lessons, the children have continued to develop their data handling skills by diving deeper into the world of graphs and charts. They have been working hard on interpreting and displaying different types of data. Meanwhile, our …
Jun 26 2026
A very hot week.
This week in year 5, we have had a busy and productive week. In English, our focus has turned to the book The Lost Happy Endings. The children have been exploring the narrative, focusing on effective dialogue between characters. We have also been working hard on using a variety of conjunctions to link our ideas …
Jun 19 2026
A Week of Big Ideas in Year 5
What an action-packed week it has been in Year 5. The children have worked hard. In Maths this week, we shifted our focus to word questions. The children had to put their problem-solving hats on, carefully decoding clues within text to figure out exactly which operations to use. It was lovely to see how everyone …
Jun 12 2026
Victorians to Volleys!
In year 5, we have had another action-packed week. In our English and History lessons, we continued exploring the Victorians and used our facts to write informative leaflets, focusing on catchy subheadings and factual but humorous language. We also tried something brand new in P.E. by taking part in a pickleball sessions. We had a …
Jun 05 2026
Last half-term of year 5!
This week, we have begun an engaging English topic on the Victorians, coinciding with our upcoming trip to the Victorian museum. This experience helps us to connect classroom learning between History and English. Additionally, students have been encouraged to explore independent science topics, revisiting questions from Year 5. We are investigating scientific questions from their …
May 01 2026
A week of learning and football!
What a fantastic week we have had in year 5. In Maths, we have been working on our calculation skills by mastering the bus stop method for division. It has been great to see everyone becoming more confident with multiplying and remainders. Alongside this, we have been brushing up on our division and even traveling …
Apr 17 2026
Flowers and first week back!
This week in year 5, we have been reading the book ‘The Children in the Benin Kingdom’ we have been using this text to dive deeper into the culture and heritage of the Edo people. The story’s twists and turns have captivated the students attention and we look forward to reading more next week. In …
Mar 27 2026
Happy Easter!
What a week! I can’t believe we’ve finally reached the end of the term. We have been working so hard in Year 5, and it was great to finish on such a high note. In Maths, we spent the week working with grids. We practiced plotting shapes using coordinates and learned how to reflect them …
Mar 20 2026
Exploring Earth and Beyond
We have had a creative and very hands-on week in year 5. In our Maths lessons this week, we have been exploring the relationship between 3D shapes and their 2D nets. The children have been cutting, folding, and sticking to see how flat shapes can be transformed into solid objects. It has been a very …
