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Year 5 Weekly News

Weekly update of activities in Year 5

January 2026

  • 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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  • 16/01/26

    Friday 16th January

    This week in English we were trying to convince people to come and visit Narnia based on our book The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. We have been learning about tourist brochures and the importance of convincing people to visit specific places. We therefore decided to create a PowerPoint to prese...
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  • 08/01/26

    9th January 2025

    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...
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January 2026