Year 5 – Forest & Sage
Feb 07 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
Dec 13 2024
This week we have finished off our “How to disguise yourself as a Christmas Elf” instructions. The children were so creative and created detailed and humorous writing. In Art, we continued experimenting with mixed media and used handwriting pen and watercolours to create landscapes. It’s lovely to see the range of ideas and pieces of …
Dec 06 2024
Another busy week in year 5 with lots of work on fractions. We have been comparing and ordering them, learning to first find a common denominator to make it easier. In English, we have started our new writing on “How to disguise yourself as a Christmas Elf”. There have been lots of creative ideas and …
Nov 28 2024
Today we had a wonderful trip to a local synagogue. The children wowed the people there with their knowledge of Judaism and they were a credit to the school. Lots of them were amazed by how large a Torah Scroll was! The weather was on our side as well and we certainly got our steps …
Nov 22 2024
What a busy week! Practise for sharing assemblies are well underway and we look forward to presenting them in a few weeks time. In art we have been looking at landscapes using different media. This week we focused on using charcoal and pastels to created coastal scenes. Lots of creativity going on! Our English suspense …
