Year 5

Dear Parents, We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to the synagogue on Tuesday. Our host, Shoshana, taught us so much about the Jewish religion and life as a Jewish person. The children especially enjoyed seeing the collection of Torahs at the front of the room of worship. Next week: In Maths, we will start a unit […]

Dear Parents We are continuing to enjoy our Stargazers topic and this week we started reading our new yeargroup text, Cosmic, which we are all finding very amusing. We also recapped and revised the learning that we have done so far this year on internet safety. It was great to hear the children being able […]

Dear Parents, This week the children have finished off their moon myths and undertaken some of their own research about the Moon. The children also took part in a lesson on money safety for Money Week, and took part in an engaging and informative webinar for Clean Air Day yesterday too. In Maths, we have […]

Dear year 5 parents, We have thoroughly enjoyed our week back this week. We started our new topic called Stargazers on Monday, and enjoyed meeting an astronomer from the Royal Observatory, who taught the children many interesting facts about our Solar System! We were all amazed by how many moons there are! The children were […]

Dear Year 5 parents, The children have enjoyed several highlights this week, including taking part in the Captain Tom run on Tuesday, and completing their Tudor portrait art work. The children worked incredibly hard to create ‘carbon copies’ of original Holbein’s of Anne Boleyn or Henry VIII, using a technique called ‘pouncing’ and then painting […]

Dear Parents, This week the children enjoyed taking part in the May procession followed by a liturgy, and on Tuesday they witnessed the beheading of Anne Boleyn. It has certainly been a varied week! The spellings that we have been learning about are from the year 5/6 statutory words list. The words we have learnt […]

Dear Parents, We have enjoyed another great week of learning in year 5. The highlight of the week was our zoom workshops with the National Archives, in which the children looked at three historical documents from the Tudor period, all of them featuring images of Henry VIII. The children had to decide in which picture […]

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