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Spring 2
Week 2
What a brilliant week we’ve had in Year 5!
We started the week with our fantastic parent event on Monday, where we put our lunar buggies to the test on a whole range of surfaces – grass, silk, cloth, mud, sand, bark, slopes, leaves, planks and more! A huge thank you to all the adults who joined us. The children shared how much they loved having you there and were so proud to show off what they had made.
On Thursday, we celebrated World Book Day, and the costumes were absolutely incredible. This year, everyone came dressed as a word – see if you can work out each child’s chosen word from the photo!
To finish the week, Friday brought our exciting lunar buggy races. Although all buggies were working during the warm-up, a few unfortunately decided to stop right on the start line! The fastest two buggies from each class made it through to the final and, after a very close race, a huge well done to Toucan Class, who were our overall winners this year!
World Book Day 2026 - Words
World Book Day Activities - Escape Room and Drawing Bookmark Characters
Week 1
We kicked off our inter-house dodgeball competition today as an exciting warm-up to House Week next week. The children competed in fast-paced 3-minute matches, showing great teamwork, determination and enthusiasm throughout. Alongside match results, bonus points were awarded for positive sporting behaviour, including fair play, encouragement and respect for others. The competition will continue during House Week, and we’ll share the final scores and highlights on the blog next week.
Year 5 - dodgeball
Spring Term 1
Week 6
On Monday, we learnt to juggle! Mr Pryke came down to show off his skills and to be a 'blue' coach, in-line with our ReflectEd. The majority of us started the lesson off as 'red', which meant we didn't know anything about juggling. A few of us were 'yellow', which meant we knew a little about it but needed some more support. As the session went on, we found that we floated between the colours. When we became confident in the first step (which made us green) we then moved on to the next step, which meant many of us were back to being red/yellow again. This was a great session as it showed us that by breaking down a task into smaller steps, this allowed us to build on our perseverance and resilience.
Hummingbird - week 6
Week 5 and 6
In Geography, we have been exploring countries, time zones, climates and geographical features within the continent of North America. We worked in pairs and threes to produce a poster about a geographical feature. We used the Chrome books to research facts about the landmark and find out where it was located in North America.
Geography - North America
Week 4
During our Art lesson this week, we learnt a range of techniques that can be created when working with Indian ink. Using a paintbrush and a wooden skewer, we were able to create colour values (shades of colour after adding varying amounts of water to the ink), colour washes (where the ink bled into the water wash) and differing line widths and patterns.
After this exploration, we began to tried to create trees.
Our challenge was to confidently take risks in our sketchbook and explore what we could achieve when using ink!
Exploring with Indian Ink
Week Three
In Science, we have been exploring the properties of different materials. This week, we investigated electrical conductors and insulators. We made a circuit and then tested different materials. If the material conducted electricity, then the light bulb came on. We worked collaboratively in groups.
Investigating electrical conductors and insulators
Week Two
In English, we have been learning about explanation texts. We read some examples of how machines work, looking at the use of causal conjunctions, time conjunctions, technical vocab and rhetorical questions to hook the reader. Then we had a lot of fun creating our own machines for the areas we felt were most important: how to complete your homework easily, how to please your teacher and how to tidy your bedroom with ease. There was an incredible range of designs and we are looking forward to explaining how they would work next week.
Our Machines
Week One
This week, we have started a unit for Art called Mixed Media Land and City. We looked at the artists Vanessa Gardiner and The Shoreditch Sketcher and explored some of their artwork. In our sketchbooks, we produced a page about them.
Autumn Term 2
Week One
PSHE - Celebrating Differences
Week Two
Guided Reading - Drama
Week Three
Viking Day - Hummingbirds
Week Four
We have had a very busy week. We have finished our stories and published them in our Writing Journals and we have adding and subtracting mixed numbers in Maths. In Science, we learnt about night and day and in History thought about who might have been king after Edward the Confessor. In Music, we started our unit for singing and sang some Christmas songs. We are looking forward to sharing them with an audience on the 17th December.
Week 5
In PE this week, we played a range of team games. We mixed all 3 classes up and got into teams of around 10. We started off with a relay race where we tried to move a cone up and down an obstacle course using only our feet - this proved quite difficult! After this, we had to hold hands in our line and get a hoop from one end to the other without letting go; we were impressed with how easily some groups found this! Then we played the good-old 'over/under' game with a basketball. Finally, we put all these games together in an obstacle course and raced against each other. There was a lot of excitement and it was a very close race at the end!
Year 5 PE Games
Week 6
Making Moon Buggies
