Year 5

It was great to see so many of you at parents evening. For those parents who did not attend, please contact the school to arrange an appointment with your class teacher. We have had another great week of learning in year 5! The children have been: Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, and 1000 in […]

We have had a wonderful week for literacy in year 5. The children have been exploring figurative language, both in their reading lessons and in their writing lessons. The result is that all children have now written some excellent descriptive poems, in which they have created an extended metaphor to describe the black death as […]

We have had a great week in year 5 this week! Both classes enjoyed their trips to the National Portrait Gallery, where they explored some of the most famous Tudor artwork. We were bowled over by how much learning the children were able to share with the teachers who were running the workshop in the […]

In year 5 this week, the children have finished writing newspaper reports about the trial and beheading of Anne Boleyn. They learnt how to use relative embedded clauses, using the relative pronouns such as ‘who’ and ‘which’. They also learnt how to use direct and reported speech. In Maths, the children continued looking at line […]

We have had a great week in year 5 and achieved so many things! Children finished their persuasive letters, wrote them up in neat and they now look fantastic on display outside, and inside the classrooms. In our new writing unit, the children will be writing newspaper articles about the execution of Anne Boleyn. To […]

We have had another fantastic week of learning in year 5! The children have been solving problems using addition and subtraction in maths. In RE, the children learnt about Rosh Hashannah and in English we have been writing persuasive letters from Anne Boleyn to Henry VIII, asking to be freed and not executed! Perhaps if […]