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Primary French Competition @ The Billericay School – Friday 4th July 2025
On Friday 4th July, a group of Year 5 pupils visited The Billericay School to take part in a French Competition. They were polite, courteous and represented the values of Sunnymede Primary School.
Our team of twenty split into two groups. One group completed a ‘Murder Mystery’ first where they had to find clues in French to solve the puzzle whereas the other group completed a traditional quiz first. There were several vocabulary tests, memory quiz and picture matching games. Finally, the group were asked to compose a speech but then one person would be selected by the group to perform it to the room. Both Naomi and Nathaniel did a fantastic job of reading their speech. It is a very brave thing to address a crowded hall, let alone in French!
Results were announced and Sunnymede came a very respectable (and close!) second. Of course, the most important thing is we truly enjoyed ourselves. Year 5 should be extremely proud of their contribution to the school’s success.
Maths Enrichment day
On Wednesday 25th June, the whole school took part in a Maths Enrichment Day. The challenge for Year 5 was to catapult a figurine as high as they can using a mixture of contraptions and only one element of human effort/force. We call these kinds of devices a Rube Goldberg machine. The video on the right shows you some of our inspiration.
Have a look at what we come up with!
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St Pauls' Cathedral and the Bank of England museum
On a very hot Thursday, Year 5 ventured into London to visit two iconic places: The Bank of England and St Pauls' Cathedral.
First, we visited the Bank of England museum. Here, we completed a 'picture hunt' to help us understand and appreciate the artefacts.
Afterwards, we went to lunch and sat in the gardens of St Pauls', taking in its outside beauty before heading inside. Once inside, we admired the interior and then climbed many stairs to go to the Whispering Gallery. From here, lots of pupils were brave and went even higher to the outside viewing galleries towards the top of the dome!
We also all got the opportunity to hold a REAL gold bar. It was a lot heavier than we were expecting (13kg). There are 400,000 of these underneath the Bank of England.
June - Geography fieldwork
As geographers, we investigated traffic within our local area. We devised a question, discussed how best to collect data and then went to collect the data. We worked in groups to collect accurate data and used tallys as a way of recording. Afterwards, we analysed this data to unpick what it told us.
VE Day 8th May 2025- Honouring the sacrifice of our fallen war heroes 80 years on! We wore red, white and blue. We learnt about why VE day was such a celebration and read a letter from a serving member of the armed forces. We then created some bunting to add to the celebration.
Life Exhibition
Life Exhibition
Year 5 were lucky enough to visit the Life Exhibition run by Billericay Churches Together. We had the opportunity to learn about Jesus' life and teachings from the bible through music, videos and questions. We enjoyed listening to the information and watching the films. We learnt a lot about the life of Jesus and his teachings.
World Book Day
World Book Day
What a fantastic day!
Year 5 did us proud with the variety of masks they made, costumes they wore and books they chose to share.
What wonderful masks!
You can really tell which books are popular!
The Cat In The Hat, Harry Potter, The Wizard of Oz (and Wicked), as well as Where's Wally?
Which was your favourite character?
Not just a mask but also many other characters from The Bad Guys.
Aragog's legs even moved on this scarily realistic mask!
Dogman from Year 5 meet Dogman from Year 2
A perfect day to sit in the sunshine and share books. It was wonderful to see the children from Violet, Indigo, Saffron and Yellow class really enjoying being together and talking about books.
Wow - we were so blown away with your impressive homework pieces this week! What creative ideas you had to make better use of old and recyclable materials! Thank you for your hard work.
February
February
Buddy bootcamp
Buddy bootcamp
On a cold February morning, Year 5 were outside completing a hardcore bootcamp session! This session taught us the importance of teamwork and communication and also tested us physically. Although cold and muddy, we still had smiles on our faces and thoroughly enjoyed the session.
As teachers, it was lovely to see children push themselves and show such great team work skills. Well done Year 5!
January - Violet and Indigo Class Assembly
January - Violet and Indigo Class Assembly
Violet and Indigo class did such a good job presenting all the wonderful things we have learnt so far in our class assembly. We enjoyed sharing all our hard work with parents and the rest of the school. Well done year 5!
January
January
We have begun to explore decimals in maths. To help us understand these, we used concrete resources and place value charts. Physical resources help to build a more secure base understanding ready to progress onto more abstract thinking. BBC bitesize is a great tool to help support learning at home.
Reading is a key part of learning and through a range of texts, we hope children become immersed and enjoy reading for pleasure.
Here is a list of recommended reads for Year 5 to help inspire and excite children.
December
We have certainly had a very busy term enjoying our topics - The Vikings, South America and forces. A year group favourite has most definitely been our English novel, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, by Louis Sachar. As this term draws to a close, we head towards the business of Christmas! The Christmas production (Santa's on Strike) was brilliant and it was so amazing to see lots of year 5s auditioning for speaking parts. We've eaten a delicious Christmas dinner and have worn some fabulous Christmas jumpers and now I think we are in a festive spirit! Enjoy the time off, year 5. Thank you for the generous gifts and the lovely term so far. We wish you all a Merry Christmas!
November - friendship day
In year 5, during friendship week, we discussed what qualities a good friend had. Each child was randomly allocated another child in the class and they created an acrostic poem with their names, filled with qualities they have or show. Year 5 really took pride and care with these for the peers within their class.
November - winter art morning
Once our backgrounds had dried, we created a tile for our print, using cardboard. We drew different trees and printed these in the foreground to create our wintery scene.
For winter art morning this year, our focus was printing. We created a swirly background using paint. To create this effect, we mixed cool colours to create different shades and used sweeping and swirling motions with our paintbrushes.
October - forces in science
To explore water resistance in science, we designed and constructed boats out of tin foil. We found the streamlined shapes worked the best.
We have also explored out how friction works by creating ziplines and testing how much force it takes to pull shoes across different surfaces.
We have also been learning about gravity. We used scales to measure mass in grams and force meters to measure weight in Newtons.
September - The Globe Theatre
On Wednesday 25th September, Year 5 had a wonderful school trip to The Globe Theatre in London. We had a tour of The Globe and learnt about the structure of the building. Thankfully, we were able to sit (unlike others who may have needed to stand to watch a performance).
Following our tour, we then had a drama workshop. We re-enacted key parts of the play to help build our understanding of the story. We definitely have some budding actors and actresses within our cohort!
Can you guess which characters we might be playing?
We managed to dodge the rain as we journeyed through our picturesque capital, London.
Welcome to Year 5. We've had a brilliant first few weeks back and are very excited for our upcoming trip to the Globe Theatre. We've got stuck into our new topics: Macbeth, forces, South America and the Vikings. At the top of the page are links to useful pages to support at home; some of these were given as handouts during our 'Meet the Teacher' session. On this page, you will see updates about what we are learning in class so do come back and see what we've been up to!
Miss Aston, Mrs Bicheno and Mrs Hathaway
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