Spring Term 2025

W/C 3rd February

We have had a busy week in Year 5. We have completed some more work on Fractions in Maths, looking at how to calculate the fraction of a quantity and an amount. We then looked at how to find the whole. 

We completed two more RE lessons, one learning about what happens during Ramadan, including why Muslims fast and the festival of Eid at the end of the holy month.  In the other lesson we learnt about the pilgrimage of Hajj and the rituals that are followed during their time in Mecca. 

In Geography, we finished our unit by looking at what happens to a river on its journey, including looking at key features of a river. We then completed our end of unit quiz. 

In History, we completed two more lessons on the Vikings. The first lesson, we looked at the reasons why the Vikings were so successful at raiding, including the fact that they were well trained, always carried weapons and planned their surprise attacks carefully. We then learnt about Viking beliefs, including some of the gods that they believed in. We then learnt about Valhalla, the Viking version of heaven and what they believed happened to them if they died in battle. 

We also completed two more Science lessons. The first, we looked at how the movement of the earth affects us, by giving us day and night because of the rotation on the axis. We also looked at how the tilt of the earth gives us our seasons. Finally, we looked at how our views on the solar system have changed over time, looking at the discoveries that have enabled us the understand what is happening in the solar system. 

Next week, some children will be going to Paris for a week's residential, we hope you have an amazing time. Those not going will be joining the children in Year 6, we hope you have a great week as well. 

W/C 27th January

We have had a great week in Year 5. We have finished off our learning of Multiplication and Division in Maths and have moved onto our second unit of Fractions. We started off by multiplying a unit fraction by an integer and progressed to multiplying non-unit fractions. Once we had mastered this, we used this knowledge to multiply mixed number fractions by an integer. 

In English this week, we have been working on our independent write. We have used our work from the short film, 'One small step' to create either our own versions of the story, re-write the story from a different perspective or continue the story. Once we had drafted our stories, we then edited them before publishing them into a book. 

In History, we continued our work on the Vikings. We looked at Viking raids, specifically the one at Lindisfarne. We then answered the question, how much fear did the Viking raids cause? 

In Science, we leanrt about the moon. We looked into what the moon actually is and where it gets it's light from. We then looked at the different phases of the moon, before looking at how the moon impacts the tides on Earth. 

In Art, we continued our work on drawing the human form. We looked at how using guidelines can help us when drawing the face and body. 

W/C 20th January

Another busy week in Year 5! We have been working really hard in all subjects. In Maths, we have spent a lot of time this week working on division. We started off looking at short division and then moved onto dividing a 4 digit number by a 1 digit number, before looking at dividing with remainders. We then spent some time consolidating this understanding. 

In English, we have completed our sentence stacking lessons based on 'One small step'. This week, we included metaphors, action sentences and complex sentences and on Friday we created our own sucess criteria for our independent write, which we start next week. 

In RE, we learnt about Ummah - the worldwide community of Islam and how Hajj and Zakah impacts this. 

In Geography, we learnt about what a river is and how they are formed. We looked at how a river starts at the source and ends at the sea, meandering around rocks and creating valleys and canyons on the way. 

In Science, we learnt about how bodies in our solar system move. We learnt about the difference between rotating on an axis and orbiting the sun. 

W/C 13th January

We have had a great week in Year 5. We have spent a lot of time focusing on multiplying by a 2 digit numbers, in Maths, building up to multiplying a 4 digit number by a 2 digit number. 

In English, we have completed 4 more sentence stacking lessons and one experience day, based on 'One Small Step'. We have been working on using relative clauses, colons, adverbials of tome, complex sentences, similes and modal verbs. 

In Geography, we started our new unit in how water travels around the world. We looked at the water cycle, labelling the different elements and understanding the difference between evaporation and condensation. 

In History, we have started our new unit in the Vikings. We looked at who the Vikings were, focusing on where they came from and how they got to Britain. We also looked at some of the reasons they came to Britain and answered the question, were all Vikings bad?

In RE, we started our new unit in Islam. We looked at what happens in the Mosque, including learning about some of they key features. We looked at how the Mosque is an important place in the community. 

W/C 6th January

What a fanastic first week back! We have enjoyed our Bikeability training this week. On Tuesday, we all set off on the playground, working on our basic skills and learning how to check our bikes are safe to ride. Some of us were not very confident on our bikes, so we spent some time learning to ride them independently. These children made some excellent progress. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the confident riders went onto the roads and learnt how to do a number of manouveres, including stopping, u-turns, left turns in and out of a junction and right turns in and out of a junction. 

We have still managed to squeeze in some other lessons this week. In English, we started our new unit based on 'One small step' a short film. We looked at complex sentences, alliterative dialogue, action words and repetition. We also completed an experience day, thinking about special people in our lives and what makes them special. 

In Maths, we started our new unit on Multiplication and Division. First we learnt how to multiply a 4 digit number by a 1 digit number, before looking at multiplying a 2 digit number by a 2 digit number using the area model and then the column method. 

In Science, we started our new topic on Space. We looked at what a Solar System is and what ours is like, learning about the different celestial bodies that make up a solar system and ordering the planets from closest to the sun. 

In Art, we started our work on drawing the human form, we looked at drawing different features and then had a go at drawing a portrait.