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  • Friday 20th March 2026

    Published 20/03/26, by Charlotte Preston
    Another incredibly busy but fun week in Year 5! We began the week with the Knex challenge which everyone thoroughly enjoyed. The task was to create a rocket with removable boosters and shuttle. The children worked collaboratively to create their p
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  • Friday 13th March 2026

    Published 13/03/26, by Charlotte Preston

    We have had another great week in Year 5.

    The children really enjoyed participating in their house groups and singing their group songs. Everyone is putting in a fabulous amount of effort.

    In Maths, we have begun our new topic on decimals. The children have begun to recognise the correlation between fractions (tenths and hundredths) and the way they are written as decimals. 

    We have begun exploring mechanisms in DT and considering how we can create a variety of mechanisms including push pull, reverse motion and bell crank.

    In English, we have continued to work through our toolkit features in short writes and the children have been really considering how they can include as many features as possible. 

    IN PSHE we considered the different roles we could volunteer for in the community and discussed the impact that voluntary work has on others.

    In RE, the children took part in a fun activity where they looked at the last supper - even arranging the tables as one long surface and reenacting the event. 

    CHANGEMAKER PROJECT: Please ensure you are encouraging your children to complete their projects and to start bringing them in.

    Home Learning Please ensure that children are ‘in the green’ on Doodle.

    • English – Creating cohesion

    • Maths – Converting mixed number fractions to decimals

    • Spellings – achieve, believe, ancient, receipt, society, chief, review, priest, deceit, ceiling

    Reading should be at least 5 times a week and an adult needs to sign to acknowledge that this is happening. Please ensure you are completing the reading record at home.

    Wishing you all a lovely weekend.

    Charlotte Preston

    Monday 16th March - Knex Challenge

    Monday 16th March - Mini Police Assembly to parents

    Thursday 18th March - Hockey Workshop

    Monday 23rd March - NSPCC Workshop

    Tuesday 24th - Parent Consultations

    Wednesday 25th - Parent Consultations

    Thursday 26th March - Easter service - 

     

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  • Friday 27th February 2026

    Published 27/02/26, by Charlotte Preston
    We have had a very busy first week back in Year 5! We kicked off the week with a crime scene in the classroom to start our new English unit on recounts. The children were excellent investigators and understood the importance of stating facts in ch
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  • Friday 13th February 2026

    Published 13/02/26, by Charlotte Preston
    We have come to the end of Spring 1 and it has been an incredibly busy but productive half term.  In English, the children have completed their independent writes and begun publishing. Everyone has really thought carefully about the toolkit f
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  • Friday 6th February 2026

    Published 06/02/26, by Charlotte Preston
    What another brilliant week it has been in Year 5! In English, the children have been working incredibly hard to complete their shared write for a setting description. It has been wonderful to see them applying their toolkit passionately and with
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  • Friday 30th January

    Published 30/01/26, by Charlotte Preston
    What another fantastic week it has been in Year 5! In English, the children have been busy planning their shared write for a setting description. They thought carefully about atmosphere, sensory detail and using their toolkit.  It has been wo
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  • Friday 23rd January

    Published 23/01/26, by Charlotte Preston
    What a wonderful week it has been in Year 5! In English, the children have been diving into short‑burst writing, experimenting with metaphors and personification to bring their ideas to life. The children have really demonstrated a great gras
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  • Friday 16th January

    Published 16/01/26, by Charlotte Preston
    What a brilliant week we have had in Year 5! In English, the children have been exploring alternative texts to help them identify key toolkit features for our new writing unit. One of the texts we examined was Clockwork by Philip Pullman, which sp
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  • Friday 9th January 2026

    Published 09/01/26, by Charlotte Preston

    Mini Police

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  • 28th November

    Published 28/11/25, by Natasha Maxwell
    Another busy and exciting week in Year 5. In English, we have begun to look at alternative non-chronological reports to see if we can find our toolkit features. We have also begun to consider the type of information we will need for writing our sh
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  • 21st November

    Published 21/11/25, by Natasha Maxwell
    What a busy week we have had in Year 5! In English, we have been continuing to analyse the different features of a non-chronological report and consider how these can affect our writing. We have also looked at how we can begin to write an introduc
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  • 14th November

    Published 14/11/25, by Natasha Maxwell
    There has been a lot of exciting learning happening in Year 5 this week.  In English, we been exploring the different aspects of our current toolkit. We have considered the impact that lists of three sentences can have on our writing and how
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  • 7th November

    Published 07/11/25, by Natasha Maxwell
    What a lovely first week back after the half term. In Year 5, we have been extremely productive with many lessons starting off this half term's learning journeys.   In English, we have begun looking at the features of a non-chronologic
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  • 22nd October

    Published 22/10/25, by Natasha Maxwell
    We have reached half term! Well done to all the children who completed their Changemaker project and earned their first sticker. Please continue to work on doodle over the half term to keep up your skills.   ENGLISH: Independent writi
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  • 17th October

    Published 17/10/25, by Natasha Maxwell
    We are into our penultimate  week before half term and starting to bring to an end our different learning journeys!   ENGLISH: We have been hugging the text and starting our independent write. The children have been using such a
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  • 10th October

    Published 10/10/25, by Natasha Maxwell
    As we get closer to the end of term, it has been lovely to see the children really settle into Year 5 and show a lot of perseverance in their learning. Next week is the last week to complete the Changemaker's project - We are looking forward to s
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  • 3rd October

    Published 04/10/25, by Natasha Maxwell
    Another busy week for us in Year 5! We thoroughly enjoyed National Poetry Day and the online workshop we took part in. The children were really engaged and loved making their own words with definitions. We also enjoyed visiting church for Harvest Fes
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  • 26th September

    Published 04/10/25, by Natasha Maxwell
    We have worked hard with our learning this week in Year 5! ENGLISH: We have looked carefully at all the components needed to use dialogue successfully. The children have really enjoyed retelling our model text whilst looking closely at the to
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  • 19th September

    Published 04/10/25, by Natasha Maxwell
      Thank you to all those who attended the meet the teacher information session. Please reach out to the office if you have any questions.  Next week we will spend one of our Collective worship sessions as a class, discussing our new i
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  • 12th September

    Published 04/10/25, by Natasha Maxwell
    What a great first full week in Year 5. In our English lessons, we have been looking at our model text for character descriptions. Using pictorial representations, we have explored the narrative and tried to learn it off by heart. Place value has bee
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