Year 5

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…

Happy New Year! Welcome back – we trust you enjoyed your Christmas holiday. This week… In English, we started a new unit; persuasive letters. Our focus text is ‘The Misadventures…

We hope you’ve enjoyed the last few days before the Christmas holidays. We wish you a very merry Christmas. To keep your mind fresh and ready for the new term:…

English This week, we focused on planning a new biography on ground-breaking women in maths and science. We used the different writing devices from the previous lessons. Maths This week,…

English This week we started a unit on biography writing. Over the week, we worked in groups to research Mary Anning and to produced a short biography to share with…

English This week we focused on planning and drafting a short story based on the themes of ‘The Promise’. Maths This week, in the unit on fractions we focused on…

English This week we focused on using expanded noun phrases and relative clauses to describe settings. We also created a main character for our stories based on ‘The Promise’. This…

English This week, we started a new narrative unit based on the book ‘The Promise’ by Nicola Davies. Over the week, we explored the author’s use of similes, metaphors and…

Welcome back to school!   English This week, our writing to entertain unit was on Cinquain poems. The children enjoyed learning about the features and exploring how to create Cinquain…