Term 6 Week 6 update
Hello, and welcome to your penultimate Year 5 update! Another tricky week in terms of heat, but your kids have been hard-working and good-humoured throughout. This week, we’ve been up to the following: It’s been assessment week, so children have been tested on their maths (both arithmetic and problem solving), reading comprehension, grammar & punctuation […]
Term 6 Week 5 update
Hello and welcome to another weekly Year 5 update. Just two more of these to go until the summer holidays! This week, your children have been up to the following: In literacy, we’ve managed to finish our Roald Dahl biographies. Next week, we will spend some time looking at a brilliant picture book, called How […]
Term 6 Week 4 update
Hello, and welcome to another weekly Year 5 update! I’m sure you can understand that this will be a fairly light newsletter because we don’t have much to say! The first thing is a big thank you to you all for your understanding and flexibility this week. This week (in the mornings at least), your […]
Term 6 Week 3 update
Hello, and welcome to another weekly Year 5 update. You will have received a message from the office about the warm weather we’ll be experiencing over the next few days. Please do make sure that your children are well equipped for this. They should come to school with a water bottle and a sun hat, […]
Italian Fashion Show
On 4th June Year 5 amazed their audience by putting on a fashion show in Italian. If you missed it we thought you’d like to see some of it. With thanks to their modern foreign languages teacher, Mrs Steele, and to everyone who helped the children learn their lines and put on the show.
Term 6 Week 2 update
Hello, and welcome to another weekly Year 5 update. A quick reminder to begin with – our threshold for what constitutes a ‘wet’ playtime has recently changed, and so we are expecting children to go out in the rain. Please help your children by making sure they bring a raincoat to school with them, and […]
Welcome to Term 6!
Hello, and welcome to the first post of the final term of Year 5! It seems crazy to us that the year has flown by this quickly. This week, your children have been up to the following: In literacy, we have started our new topic of biographies by studying two different people: Greta Thunberg and […]
End of Term 5 update
Hello, and welcome to the final update of the penultimate term of Year 5! This week, your children have been up to the following: In literacy, we wrote some play scripts based on the story, Oh Maya Gods! In maths, we’ve either been finishing up on shape and looking at statistics, or we’ve been learning […]
Term 5 Week 5 update
Hello, and welcome to another weekly Year 5 update. Bit of a wild week weather wise, but we should mention how proud we were of how everyone did at the Chiltern Edge ‘Wow’ Day on Wednesday. They were respectful, they threw themselves into everything and behaved extremely well. They were a credit to the school […]
Term 5 Week 4 update
Hello, and welcome to another weekly Year 5 post. Next week, our Year 6 children will be taking their KS2 SATs (and Mr Burrows’s daughter will be doing the same) – one year to go! Argh! Where does the time go? This week, your children have been up to the following: In literacy, we have […]
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