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  • 01/05/26

    1st May 2026

    This week, to coincide with the London Marathon, we took part in the mini marathon and ran around our playground. This consisted of 18 laps! To keep count, their name was crossed off a very big list - 18 times! Mr Spalding was very, very impressed with all of the children and they should be very pro...
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  • 24/04/26

    Friday 24th April 2026

    Every Thursday this term, Year 5 is taking part in a Climate Education workshop. We have already learnt about the Greenhouse Effect and gases that cause climate change. Each week we will build on our knowledge - this week we learnt about travel and transport and the emissions of greenhouse gases emi...
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  • 17/04/26

    Friday 17th April 2026

    On the first Wednesday of every new half-term, we all have a Problem-Solving Wednesday session at the start of our maths lessons that day.  This term, we began with a game of “Guess What?” A bit like Guess Who, we chose a shape (rather than a person) and answered questions yes...
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  • 26/03/26

    Friday 27th March 2026

    Year 5 had a real treat on Wednesday! We were visited by our Head of Governors, Greg Mulligan, who came to say hello, and ended up staying to tell  us the story by Robert Burns of Tam o’Shanter.  It all began when our classroom greeters this week, Shirley and Sola, welcomed Greg to o...
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  • 20/03/26

    Friday 20th March 2026

    Our Science topic this half term is Earth and Space. We were able to enjoy the latest warmer and sunnier weather and go outside to the playground to set out our own version of the solar system. Earth is known as being 1 Astronomical Unit away from the Sun, so we used this as 1 metre. Therefore, on t...
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  • 12/03/26

    Friday 13th March 2026

    During Science week, Year 5 investigated the effect of salt on melting ice. Coming up with a hypothesis to begin with, the children formed 5 groups and then observed the time it took their ice to melt, depending on the amount of salt. Their results showed that the more salt the ice had, the faste...
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  • 06/03/26

    Friday 6th March 2026

    Beware Macbeth in Year 5! The children have been writing their own scripts and acting out their parts. We've had witches, noblemen, Kings and murderers, lots of plotting and scheming, but most of all, excellent acting and scriptwriting, showing the best of our English skills.
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  • 26/02/26

    Friday 27th February 2026

    The start of a new half-term sees a new text in English, and for Year 5 it is Macbeth, the classic tale from William Shakespeare. The children have really got into the story so far, and began with some drama, re-enacting the battle at the start of the story. We have already started to make predictio...
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  • 12/02/26

    Friday 13th February 2026

    Continuing with the oracy skills in English last week, the children in Year 5 learned a new story for Chinese New Year, The Willow Pattern Story. The children gathered together on cushions to listen to each other tell the story. It is a tale of an old Mandarin in China many years ago and his daughte...
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  • 05/02/26

    Friday 6th February 2026

    The children in Year 5 have been working hard producing a soliloquy - a piece of writing that a character says out loud, as if thinking to themselves. In our book, The Nowhere Emporium, the main character, Daniel, is talking to himself about what he thinks he should do next. We all wrote a solilo...
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  • 29/01/26

    Friday 30th January 2026

    Science this week saw the children designing parachutes, trying to achieve the longest amount of time in which it took to reach the ground. The children knew that they needed to maximise the amount of air resistance, so thought carefully when making the parachutes. Using a variety of materials, thei...
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  • 23/01/26

    Friday 23rd January 2026

    In Science this week, the children in Year 5 investigated the link between mass and weight. They showed that mass is measured in kilograms whilst weight is measured in Newtons. The pattern they discovered proved that for every 100g, there is 1 Newton, and 1kg is equal to 10N. The children use wei...
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