Yet another fantastic week in year 5. The children have been working incredibly hard and produced some wonderful work. Here is what we have been learning about this week: English This week we have been writing the first chapter in our own narratives. We have based our narratives on the book Th...

This week has been another fantastic week in Year 5! Here is what we have been up to: English In English, we have been learning how to use emotive language to write from viewpoint. We talked about how carefully selecting the vocabulary that we use in our writing can elicit emotions from the re...

What a wonderful week Year 5 have had to end Term 1! Thank you to all the parents who came to see our Harvest Festival performance. Here's what we've been up to: English We have continued looking into Shackleton's crime of being a bad leader and finding more evidence. We calle...

English This week in our English lessons, we have been continuing to write newspaper reports. Our focus was using direct and reported speech in our article about the heroic return of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his entire crew. We have also finished the book Ice Trap, which we all thoroughly enjoye...

Week 3 and Year 5 are still going strong. Here is what we have been up to: Maths This week in maths, we have been learning how to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000. We have been using place value sliders to aid us and noticing patterns in the place value to answer some of our questions...

What a wonderful first week back Year 5 have had! Thank you everyone for settling back in to school life so quickly and for working so hard this week. Here's what we have been up to: English In English this week, we have been writing a setting description on the continent of Antarctica in...