All this week, Year 5 has been completing a set of Taskmaster-style tasks, linked with our White Rose Maths scheme of learning. Fans of the show will be aware of the sort of tasks celebrities and comedians have been given in the past. The children have had to create a free-standing tower using only...

This week in RE, the Year 5 children learnt about The Beatitudes. In Matthew’s Gospel, he collects Jesus’s teaching together in what is called the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew wants his readers to recognise Jesus as the new Moses, calling people to a new way of living. Jesus went up the...

Starting our new half term with lots of drama and role play, Year 5 children have been using their acting skills in RE, exploring the ideas behind freedom and responsibility. In our lesson, we role-played a story in which a brother and sister wanted to go and buy their mum a pair of earrings for her...

In maths, the children in year 5 have been measuring capacity and volume. Estimates for objects around the classroom ranged from 250ml for Mr Spalding’s mug to 20,000 litres for the whole cupboard! We’ve worked hard this week recognising that capacity and volume are two different thin...

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...

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...