Year 5 2024-25: Term 3 Week 6
Dear Parents and Carers, And so we have it, another term done and dusted. We have spent our Literacy lessons brushing up on the various skills that we need to demonstrate a sound level of reading comprehension, focusing on two different texts – ‘Momotaro,’ a myth from Japanese culture, and an information text about the […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 3 Week 5
Dear Parents and Carers, Another busy week in Literacy has seen us reach the end of our unit on Greek myths. Our alternative endings for the classic tale Prometheus and Pandora are now complete, with the children showing a good understanding of the content required as well as including a nice range of figurative language. […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 3 Week 4
Dear Parents/Carers, In Literacy this week we have studied another Greek myth, the tale of Daedalus and Icarus, before comparing the tale to the myths we studied last week. We also revisited the topic of figurative language, where we have focused on similes, metaphors and alliteration – techniques which we will be using when when […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 3 Week 3
Dear Parents and Carers, By now we are sure that you would have heard some interesting stories about our wonderful Ancient Greek Day today, provided for us by History Off The Page. This followed on from our Topic lesson this week which focused on the creation and evolution of the Olympic Games. The children were […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 3 Week 2
Dear Parents/Carers, We have reached the end of the first full week back at school, and it has been a busy one. In Literacy, the children have studied prepositions and learnt how to use them, before drafting their own instructions – with a focus on editing the time words and bossy verbs – on how […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 3 Week 1
Dear Parents and Carers, Thank you all for our lovely cards and gifts before the break, and welcome back to a new term. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are feeling positive about the year ahead! Literacy resumed with our new unit on instruction writing. The children have studied different modal verbs […]
Term 2 Week 7
Dear Parents and Carers, The last lessons of 2024 have been taught, and adults and children alike head off for a well-earned rest. There have been many highlights in the final week – the children have watched an enjoyable performance of ‘Bugsy Malone’ at MECE, practised and sung their Christmas song in front of a […]
Carol Concert on Thursday 19th December
Dear Parents/Carers, A slight correction to the Year 5 post on Friday – the Carol Concert this Thursday begins at 6pm, not 6.30pm as previously mentioned. Same venue. Apologies for this error. Previous post now edited to show this correction. Hope to see you there, The Y5 Team
Year 5 2024-25: Term 2 Week 6
Dear Parents and Carers, As promised, ‘Street Child’ reached its emotional conclusion this week. Shrimps did not recover from his ill health – he had simply been starving for too long -and Jim was yet again lost in the world, wondering why nobody around him either could nor wanted to provide help. Jim then entered […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 2 Week 5
Dear Parents and Carers, Thanks for your time and positive words during the parent consultations this week. We hope you found these conversations useful. Our week began with a special visit during Monday’s assembly. Mikey Akers is a young man who does a lot of great work to raise awareness of apraxia, which is a […]
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