Year 5

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 […]

This week in year 5, the children have been: Finishing their biographies about Henry VIII. They are fantastic! Learning to add and subtract numbers with more than 4 digits and applying these skills to problem solving Writing letters to God to thank Him for the gifts and talents that he has given Next week, the […]

We have had a wonderful start to the new academic year! The children seem to be thoroughly enjoying their new topic entitled ‘Off with her head!’. We thought we would send a little overview of what we have been learning so far. In English, we are writing biographies about Henry VIII, focussing on using varied […]