Year 5 News
Ready for residential
16/05/2025 · No comments yet
Good evening, The last full week in school for both classes has been busy as usual. All the bedding has been brought into school and will be transported up to Gearstones this weekend. Everyone’s cases and bags containing clothes will go up on Monday, along with 5KH on the mini buses. The weather forecast Read More
Preparing for residential
02/05/2025 · No comments yet
Good evening, This week, both classes have been busy brushing up on their cycling skills. Initially, the children went out on the playground and surrounding playing fields to gain some confidence. Then today, 5B have been to Otley Chevin and have riden through the woods. This is more challenging as the ground is more Read More
Welcome back Year 5
24/04/2025 · No comments yet
Hi all, It’s been a short but busy week in Year 5. 5KH finished off sewing our rainforest animals. Rivers and Rocks Our new topic in geography is rivers and rocks and this week we learnt about the three main types of rock: sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic. We learnt about how each is formed Read More
Happy Easter
04/04/2025 · No comments yet
Good evening, The sunny weather has arrived just at the right time. English In English this week, we have been completing and editing our own versions of the ending to The Explorer. Editing work is a difficult skill but is very important, especially when looking for missing capital letters and full stops. Maths Our Read More
Sweet Treat at the End of the Week.
21/03/2025 · No comments yet
English In English, we have been working on writing interesting paragraphs that include a variety of sentence types. These are description, action and dialogue sentences, and the author of the Explorer, Katherine Rundell, uses these to good effect in her novels. We based our writing this week on the video Catch It. As it Read More
Every good story has a happy ending.
07/03/2025 · No comments yet
Another busy week has come and gone. 5B had a very welcome visitor this week when Mr Kenvyn and baby Margot popped in to say hello. Whilst in class, she brushed up on her “adding expression” skills by reading a chapter this half term’s book, The Explorer, to the class. World Book Day The Read More
Year 5 this week and next!
28/02/2025 · No comments yet
Good afternoon all, This week the children in 5KH have created an excellent performance in music with Ms Howells. We have finished our unit of work on fractions. Here are some videos if the children would like to recap ready to do their homework. In Science the children enjoyed, planning how to, and then Read More
Love is in the Air
14/02/2025 · No comments yet
The last few weeks seem to have flown by and the cold weather of January has been replaced by… the cold weather of February. Surely, spring cannot be far away. English The final week of the half term has seen the classes perform scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The script have been written Read More
Cartwright Hall
31/01/2025 · No comments yet
This week, both classes made the short trip into Bradford to visit the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery. Whilst there, the groups compared artifacts from the Early Islamic Empire and Britain around 1000 years ago. We also looked at a selection of paintings inspired by Islam then tried to replicate some of the decorative aspects Read More
Outside at last
17/01/2025 · No comments yet
Science After a very snowy week last week, we have finally been able to get out into the grounds at playtimes. We also took the opportunity to look around the school and investigate the condition of the building as part of our materials topic. Whilst some aspects were found to be in need of Read More
