Year 5

Holy Week This week we continued with our focus on Holy Week; The Bridegroom services, Holy Wednesday, Holy Thursday and Holy Friday. In Maths, we focused on percentages as fractions.…

English This week, we wrote the drafts for our suspense stories and began editing. Maths This week, we focused on rounding to the nearest whole number and rounding to 1…

English This week, we completed our planning for our descriptive recount. Maths This week, we explored thousandths as decimals, thousandths on a place value chart, order and compare decimals (same…

English This week, we explored figurative language to create mood/ atmosphere and the technique ‘zoom-in’ to show character emotions. Maths This week, we explored equivalent fractions and decimals (tenths, hundredths…

Welcome back to a new half term.   English This week, we started a new unit based on the book ‘The Watertower’ by by Gary Crew. Over the week, we…

English This week we completed our drafts, then edited and finally published some amazing non chorological report (NCR). Our final published piece included a front cover and blurb. Maths This…

English This week, we planned our non chronological reports and began to write the draft. We focused on the following language features; fronted adverbials, use of commas to clarify meaning…

English This week, we focused on studying the core texts in close detail,  recapped glossaries, bullet points to share key information and using parenthesis. Maths This week, we solved word…

English This week, we completed our persuasive letters, including publishing them using Microsoft word. At the end of the week , we began a new unit on non-chronological reports. Maths…

English This week, we continued to plan our persuasive letters, addressed to the Head Teacher or Leadership team, sharing ideas on changes we would like to make. At the end…