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 …
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Year 5 – Forest & Sage
Jun 06 2025
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! …
May 23 2025
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 …
May 16 2025
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 …
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 …
