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 …
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Year 5 – Forest & Sage
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 …
Feb 14 2025
Happy Half Term!
We are very excited to send our persuasive letters, chocolate bars and promotional posters to Montezuma’s! I am sure that they will love our creations. Maths this week has been all about area. We even worked out the area of compound shapes by splitting them into 2 or 3 rectangles and identifying the length of …
Feb 07 2025
A busy baking week
We have used the cooking room lots this week! We made our second batch of scones but this time with a Mediterranean theme – olives, feta cheese, sun dried tomatoes and herbs galore. The skills we focused on were grating, mixing, kneading and weighing. Also in English, we worked on designing chocolate bars to send …
Jan 31 2025
Week four, it was not a bore!
This week the children wrote amazing verses to add to the poem “The Highwayman”. We were super impressed with the poetic devices and language used – what great rhyme and structure! Come and read our verses in soft start! Maths has been all about converting. We are experts at pyramid method, we just need to …
Jan 24 2025
Busy Busy Busy Bees!
This week we had a fantastic Money Sense workshop from Citizens Advice and the children learnt lots about how to handle their finances in the future! There were 3 games to play to try and win money, work (star jumps), the bank, loans and an investment opportunity. Year 5 were extremely enthusiastic and definitely learnt …
Jan 17 2025
Week 2
The children were very relieved to read the sequel to “The Watertower” which is called “Beneath the Surface” but were not so pleased to be left with yet another cliffhanger! We have been writing newspaper reports about the strange happenings in Preston, full of detail, quotes and mystery. Well done everyone! This week also brought …
Jan 10 2025
Happy New Year!
Welcome back to school this week and Happy New Year. We’ve had a great start to 2025 and have ended the week with some baking. Our DT project this term is savoury scones so enjoy the cheese scones this weekend. The recipe will be on Google Classroom if you wish to make some at home …
Dec 19 2024
Holidays are here!
We’ve had a fantastic last week at school in year 5. From the pantomime to winter drawing activities (and of course some Maths and Science!) We started off the week with an AI workshop from the University of Hertfordshire. Did you know that robots can do flips? Our latest DT project has been to make …
