We have had a busy and productive week in Year 5. In our maths lessons, we have been using the bubble method to help us get to grips with percentages. This is a fantastic way to visualise how numbers can be broken down into smaller pieces. We start with our main 100% bubble and then …
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Year 5 – Forest & Sage
Mar 06 2026
World book day!
What an action-planned week it has been in year 5! It has been wonderful to see the children so engaged with world-book-day. We had some fantastic costumes, from dork diaries and minecraft characters to a very convincing Professor Umbridge. It was brilliant to see everyone getting into the spirit of celebrating their favorite stories. On …
Feb 27 2026
Welcome Back!
I hope everyone managed to have a restful half-term break! It has been a fantastic first week back, Year 5 have jumped straight into some new, exciting topics! This week, we started our brand-new class book, Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover. We have been learning all about how this amazing robot was built …
Feb 13 2026
Have a lovely half-term!
I can’t believe we are already at the end of the half-term—where has the time gone? We’ve had such a busy, week in Year 5. In English, we have officially finished our robot stories. Following on from our work on Malorie Blackman’s Robot Girl, the children have worked so hard to bring their own characters …
Feb 06 2026
Robots, resilience and radiant windows!
Happy Friday everyone! I can’t believe we are already at the end of Week 5. Just one more week to go until half-term. We’ve had a really busy, hands-on week in Year 5 and the kids have been absolute stars. In English, we’ve been reading Robot Girl by Malorie Blackman and if you haven’t heard …
Jan 30 2026
We are scone crazy for week 4!
This week we have been baking scones. However, unlike last week, this week’s scones have a mediterranean theme. We have used a variety of olives, feta and herbs to create different scones that reflect the fresh produce grown in the Mediterranean. After researching the impact of air miles on food consumption we have explored the …
Jan 16 2026
A scrumptious week!
This week in D.T. we have been looking at making scones. We have been meticulously washing our hands and being careful with kitchen utensils and hot ovens! The results, after much hard labour, have been a delicious treat of scones. In Maths, we have been learning about fractions. We have been timesing fractions by a …
Jan 09 2026
First Week Back
Happy New Year! We have had a great first week back with lots of learning already taking place. In Maths, we have been learning about multiplying fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers. We explored how to do this both visually and using a quicker method – multiplying the numerator. This week’s Maths homework is …
Dec 19 2025
Happy Holidays!
This week in English we finished our instructions on “How to disguise yourself as a Christmas Elf”. The children were very creative and used lots of year 5 grammar rules (and humour) to create their unique instructions. In Maths, we have continued to look at fractions. We converted between improper fractions and mixed numbers. We …
Dec 12 2025
The penultimate week!
Wow! What a busy week we have had. We started writing our instructions based on “How to disguise yourself as a Christmas elf”. The children have been very creative with their ideas and also did some wonderful sentences using subordinate clauses and commas! In Maths we have been continuing our work on fractions and now …
