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 …
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Year 5 – Forest & Sage
May 09 2025
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 …
May 02 2025
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 …
Apr 25 2025
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 …
Apr 04 2025
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 – …
Mar 28 2025
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 …
Mar 21 2025
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 …
Mar 14 2025
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 …
Mar 07 2025
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 …
Feb 28 2025
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 …