Year 5

2024 - 2025

Welcome to Year 5, the adults in our classroom are:

   Mrs Pring - Class Teacher              Mrs Higgins - Teaching Assistant         Mrs Poole - Teaching Assistant

P.E kits need to be in school all week.

Our homework and reading homework is given out on a Friday, to be returned on the following Thursday. 

Term 3

We have started to look at our new class book in English called Beowulf. We have found that the story was originally a poem. So we can get to know the story well we are looking at a few different versions of the story. As a class we have story mapped the story and told to each other using actions to help us remember what has happened.

Term 2

Term 2

This term in our English lessons we are looking at the book 'Escape from Pompeii'. We have started to look at different events that happen in the story. We worked in small groups to look at the text on different pages and wrote down the different information and emotions the author was trying to create for the reader.

This term in our computing work we have been filming our own videos. Before we could do this we had to learn all about the different shots we could use when filming. We have looked at Close up, distance and full body shots. We also looked at the angles from above and below. We thought about how we move and sound. 

Term 1

This term we have been working on the book 'ARMSTRONG The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon'

We have worked on an explanation presentation this week. We had to present our ideas to a small group about how the mouse in our book would make himself a space suit and what he would use to make it. 

We have took part in Photographic Orienteering with the school games organisers from the NSSPEA. We had pictures from different areas around the school and then had to find them to get our clues.

In Science this term we are learning all about the Earth and space. We have found out information about the planets in our solar system and their different properties. We have investigated to see if the Earth is flat using a ball and a lego figure and found, the Earth is spherical because if it was flat you would not be able to see another country. We have also looked at how we get day and night using a ball and a torch. 

Year 5 have been designing rings fit for  Viking in art this term! We have used modroc to make the band and the stone. Here are some of our finished designs: 

To celebrate the end of our attacking and defending unit of handball this term, we competed in a handball tournament. Well done to the non-bib team who took home the trophy and another big well done to our players of the tournament (voted by the children themselves): 

Yellow: Harry

Green: Dominik

Blue: Wynter

Red: Lily

Non-bibs: George