Year 5 2024-25: Term 5 Week 1
Dear Parents and Carers, Welcome back. We hope you all had a restful and enjoyable Easter holiday. Our new Literacy unit is all about non-chronological reports. This week we have studied their features and the children have learnt some new terms such as ‘formal language’ and ‘present tense verbs.’ They have also used their skimming […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 4 Week 6
Dear Parents and Carers, The final week of a really positive term is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than by getting involved in the ever popular ‘Easter Dash’ for the termly Interhouse Challenge, as well as spending a morning gaining an insight into the inner workings of a secondary school with a […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 4 Week 5
Dear Parents and Carers, This week the children have been participating in the annual STEM Week, which this year had the theme of ‘change and adapt.’ Both classes were visited by local scientists from Johnson Matthey, where they carried out an experiment to try and capture CO2. Towards the end of the week, the children […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 4 Week 4
Dear Parents/Carers, We’re sure that by this time you will have been regaled with stories of how Friday morning’s muffin making went. The children worked together nicely and have produced some tasty (healthy) treats which they very much enjoyed. With regards to the usual classroom based activities, the children began a new Literacy unit on […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 4 Week 3
Dear Parents and Carers, How are we halfway through Term 4 already? Time is flying by, and we are certainly using it wisely in Year 5! We spent our Literacy lessons planning, and then writing up, our own sequels to the previously mentioned Jeremy Strong story, focusing on the journey faced by Ramona as she […]
Year 5 2024-2025: Term 4 Week 2
Dear Parents and Carers, Friday brings to an end another busy week at SCPS, and there have been a variety of new and interesting activities happening. Our week began with a performance of the Shakespeare play ‘Hamlet,’ full of the usual Shakespearean twists, turns and tragedies, and a great way to gain insight into the […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 4 Week 1
Dear Parents and Carers, Welcome back. We hope you had an enjoyable and restful half term. Whilst much of the first week has been spent returning to the routines of the classroom, the children also went on a trip to Maidenhead Mosque where they learnt all about Islam, what happens in the different rooms in […]
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 […]
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