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Year 5 Weekly News

Weekly update of activities in Year 5

February 2026

  • 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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February 2026