This past fortnight has seen Year 5 tackle some exciting challenges across the curriculum! In Maths, the children have masterfully multiplied by 10, 100, and 1000, understanding how place value shifts. They have also successfully navigated the processes of short and long multiplication and are now bravely embarking on short and long division—essential life skills! Our journey in English has taken us to the Arctic with our captivating new class novel, The Last Bear by Hannah Gold. The children have immersed themselves in the story's setting, meticulously crafting detailed setting descriptions ready for their main piece of writing. This focus on real-world locations links perfectly with our new Geography topic, where we've zoomed in on the magnificent Alps. We've discovered their vast location and how they stretch across an impressive eight different countries! Finally, in DT  the children turned into culinary critics, exploring various bolognese recipes and even getting to taste-test a couple—a truly delicious learning experience! Meanwhile, in Science, we have launched into our new unit exploring the fascinating 'Properties and Changes of Materials'. We are looking forward to some exciting experiments ahead!

Upcoming learning

Maths - Word problems and graphs. 

Writing - Non-Chronological report based on The Last Bear. 

Geography - What it is like to live in the Alps? 

Science - Transparency and conductivity. 

Music - Why we sing? and Introduction to songwriting. 

Home Learning

Reading - 5 times a week 

Century - Your child can access Century on their Chromebooks. This has maths, SPAG, reading, and science activities that the children can access to support them with their learning. 

Spellings - All the spellings that we look at in our spelling lessons are posted on the Google Classroom for the half term. Please work with your children to practise these as quizzes may come up in our lessons. 

Reading records - Please record any reading in your child's reading diary. This can be with an adult or independently.