Year 5 Autumn 2025

Y5 completed their artwork linked to a Starry Nigh By Van Gogh. The narrative changed as we linked this to our RE advent topic and Christmas cards. We hope our families love the results. Merry Christmas and happy new year!

Y5 enjoyed their last dance session. We worked in groups to choreograph a cannon and individual aspect of a group dance. Great teamwork! One friend was kind enough to bring their guitar into school and played several snippets of the songs he's been learning. A rockstar of the future!

Y5 visited to St Mary's Cathedral for a carol service. The Bishop was in attendance and one of our children read, beautifully. The History Bloke visited us to talk about Anglo-Saxons and the importance of Monks! The children learned a lot about what Monks offered their communities, at this time. We met 'My Leech Sirus', learned Monk sign language and how cloves, mixed with oil can act as a painkiller!

5 had a choice of golden time or a PE activity. Democracy ruled, PE was voted for and we played two games. The teamwork and determination was super. We have unearthed some potential netballers, volleyballers and basketballers of the future. 

Wow, what a busy week in Year 5!

We've had a visit from the school nurse, used wax resistant techniques in Art and celebrated the end of our RE topic, in the presence of God.

Y5 had a fantastic trip to Newcastle Racecourse for a BHA Racing to School Maths Day. Toby and Carrie were incredible and taught us about the racing industry, we got to watch the horses' parade and race and we even met legendary presenter Derek Thompson. What a great day!

Year 5 enjoyed dressing up for our 'Spooky Disco'! There were some amazing costumes! We had great fun in the disco and danced our socks off!

Y5 had a visit from the police this week. We talked about road safety, the law and what we can do to keep ourselves safe - especially wearing a helmet on a bike or scooter. 

Year 5 enjoyed a prayerful 'celebration of the word', this week. We followed the Lectio Divina format for the first time. We had several readers, shared our thoughts, and listened to a hymn whilst in the presence of God. It was a spiritual and calming experience. 

Y5 enjoyed a vector drawing computing session using our iPads. We had great fun experimenting with shape, colour, outline and more. Our first task was to create a penguin and a parrot adopting specified techniques. After that, we had freedom to use these techniques to create our ultimate colourful parrots! Great fun!

Year 5 enjoyed Tai Chi with Professor Li. We had a great time learning some of the moves that linked to animals.

Ni Hao! This week, our new friend Sylvia taught us Mandarin! It was so exciting. We learnt a lot of new words and phrases. We can't wait for next week! 

Year 5 have settled back into school life, well. The children are trying hard and have embraced their new curriculum. We have been into space in science and the Equator in geography; followed Alice and the White Rabbit in English; began place value up to and beyond one million and discussed our gifts and talents in RHE. Phew! Bring on next week!