Year 5 – Forest & Sage
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 …
Sep 27 2024
It’s been another busy week in year 5. We’ve finally finished our book “There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom” and we were very happy to see how much Bradley has grown! We wrote letters to Carla in the style of Bradley and used so many great writing skills! Well done everyone! This week in …
Sep 23 2024
Last week was action packed as we made good progress with our DT projects – creating moving toys in the style of the Ancient Greeks. The toppers have been decorated (after some research about the Ancient Greeks for inspiration) and we have started to saw and sand our dowels in preparation. Thank you for all …
Sep 13 2024
We’ve had another great week in year 5, getting used to our new timetables and classrooms. The children have done great work in both Maths and English as we’ve written diary entries and letters, and thought about number magnitude and how to partition numbers. This week in Music we used the new djembe drums and …
Sep 06 2024
It’s been a great week back to year 5 and we’re so excited for the year ahead. We’ve started reading “There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom” and already written a character profile about Bradley Chalkers (the main character). It has been great to see the children challenging themselves with vocabulary and using the green …
