5JD - Mr Dean
5LR - Miss Ridgeway
5EB - Miss Baxter
5MB - Miss Miller & Miss Blair
Home-school books and reading books and records should be brought into school every day. It is also encouraged that your child brings their own bottle of water each day as well as a waterproof coat due to the changing weather.
Year 5 pupils will have PE on a Wednesday and are asked to come to school in PE kit. Please remember to remove any jewellery.
Each week children will have personalised spellings, times tables and key maths facts which they must learn off by heart. These will be set on a Friday and assessed the following Friday.
Multiplication tables is an on-going part of homework and will have a different focus each week. This is extremely important to Year 5, in preparation for SATs the following year.
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In Year 5, we have been studying the graffiti artist Banksy in our Art lessons. We have created our own graffiti tags using stencils and paint textured with sand. Here is 5MB's Banksy style artwork.
Odd Socks Day marks the start of Anti-Bullying Week and this year! What a great way to celebrate all that makes us unique. Remember to spread kindness and bring in your notes from home.
As part of our learning about Remembrance Day, we have been writing war poetry in our Literacy lessons. We imagined we were soldiers who had been sent to war and wrote about the experience from their perspective. We are really proud of the standard of poetry we produced. We hope you enjoy listening to our poems being read and looking at the selection below.
This week, children in Year 5 have been focusing on The Story of Diwali. More specifically, The Story of Rama and Sita. Here are some examples of our writing this week:
As part of our Science work on solubility, we decided to leave this saline solution on the radiator overnight. How cool is this! All of the water evaporated (which links in to our Geography work on the water cycle really well) leaving these beautiful salt crystals! Nature is beautiful, isn't it?