Year 5 – Forest & Sage
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 …
Nov 15 2024
It’s been a fun week in year 5 with lots going on. Today both classes enjoyed a workshop with Herts County Council about the regeneration of Victoria Street in St Albans. The children were able to think of designs that could improve the area. Sage class finished their moving toys this week – lots of …
Nov 08 2024
We hope you all had a lovely half term and it’s been a great week back for us! We have continued to read our new text “Who Let The Gods Out” and are enjoying learning lots of new vocabulary about the Ancient Greeks and getting to know the characters. We have been starting to think …
Oct 25 2024
Wow – It’s been a long 8 weeks… but we have had lots of fun! Well done to everyone for their hard work The term ended with us creating our moving toys based on the Greeks. We used cams and did lots of problem solving to ensure that our mechanisms were moving well. Some people …
Oct 18 2024
We have worked really hard this work created poems based on a book by Benjamin Chaud and Davide Cali called “I didn’t do my homework because…” The children had very unique and wacky ideas and we tried hard to create a rhyming pattern and use other poetic devices. In Maths, we have been focusing on …
Oct 11 2024
It’s been another busy week in Year 5 as we’ve finished off our non-chronological reports on the Ancient Greeks. They were packed full of description and wonderfully presented. In Maths we have been looking at factors and multiples and times tables have been key! Please keep practising these so you are all fluent. In Science, …
Oct 04 2024
Both classes have now had their Spurs coaching sessions and they thoroughly enjoyed them. We learnt a lot about ball control and listened brilliantly. In DT, our moving toys based on the Ancient Greeks are coming along nicely. We have been sawing the dowels and sanding them down, in preparation for assembling them with the …
