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...

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...

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...

In our first week back in the New Year, the Year 5 children have begun their new RE topic, “Missions.” Our first lesson looked at the missions of inspirational leaders. We learnt about Elly Jansen, a Dutch student who was studying theology in London in 1959. She realised that many peo...

The children in Year 5 have been practising their multiplication skills this week in Math’s, building up to multiplying 4-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers and solving problems involving multiplication and division. Using place value counters has supported the children with their calculations...