Farsley Farfield Primary School

Year 5 News

Freeze!

26/09/2025 · No comments yet

Week 4 already! Lets just freeze the year here because this week has been great. Everyone has settled in and is working really hard. Well done all of Year 5. Maths We have completed our module on place value but one of the trickier aspects encountered was rounding numbers to 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 Read More

Epic English and PE

19/09/2025 · No comments yet

Maths In Maths, we have continued our place value module and have been looking at multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, and 100,000, how to partition numbers up to 1,000,000 and number lines. Below is a video that may help your child with one of the trickier activities this week, which was Read More

Year 5 blog

13/09/2025 · No comments yet

Good afternoon all, We have had an incredibly fun and busy week in Year 5! In science we recreated a to scale version of the solar system. Shrunk down by a scale of 100,000,000,000km to cm. The children used metre sticks and trundle wheels to measure out the distances. Here are some photos to Read More

First week

05/09/2025 · 1 comment

For those without older children, welcome to Year 5. For those who have, you will know what a great year this will be. Already this week, we have had questions about the residential and what it will be like, where they will be sleeping and if it will be sunny! We are happy to Read More

A fantastic end to Year 5

18/07/2025 · No comments yet

Hi all, We had a great fun week to finish year 5. The children thoroughly enjoyed the French cafe and fashion show. We ordered food, said what we were wearing and then enjoyed some party games in French! Finally, we have loved every minute this year. When trying to select the highlights of the Read More

Malham

11/07/2025 · 3 comments

Good evening, Photos from 5B’s trip to Malham today can be found below. Thank you to all the parents who were able to offer their support on the trip today. 13

Superb singers

04/07/2025 · No comments yet

The highlight of the week in Year 5 was when eight of our children took part in a music festival at Leeds Arena. They have been working hard, learning the songs and practising for weeks and the improvements they have made have been massive. After the performance, the singers in 5B gave a talk Read More

Science forces

20/06/2025 · No comments yet

Science Science this week has seen both classes start the new topic of Forces. Testing gravity. Was Aristotle or Galeleo right? Aristotle thought heavy things would fall faster. Galleleo thought the weight didn’t matter. Objects would fall at the same speed, unless affected by air resistance. In Science we tested this by dropping the Read More

Growing a garden in Year 5

14/06/2025 · 1 comment

Hi all, We have had a fun week in Year 5 this week, completing lots of science and work on plant reproduction. We labelled and dissected flowers, learning about all the male and female parts. Next, we learned about asexual reproduction. We took cuttings of tomato plants, rosemary and started an experiment growing potatoes Read More

06/06/2025 · No comments yet

Good evening, Firstly, happy Eid to all those celebrating today. The first week back has flown. We started by chatting about the holidays and memories of the residential (which seems an age ago). Then, straight on to Maths. Maths This week, we have been looking at coordinates and translating points and shapes. The most Read More