Year 5
Welcome to Year 5 information page.
A copy of the recent letters is below which contains useful information about this term. Please remember there’s lots of useful information in other parts of this website from help at home and what your child will be learning in school.
We organise parent consultation meetings throughout the year to discuss your child’s learning and in July you will receive written report.
If you have any questions or queries please contact us and the class teacher will be happy to arrange a meeting.
“ Working together to achieve success”
Year 5 Class Newsletter 2025 - 2026
Year 5 Focus Page - June 2025
Recently Year 5 have been learning about ‘The Golden Age of Islam’. As part of this topic, we looked at Islamic style art, especially geometric and vegetal patterns and calligraphy. Using this knowledge, we designed tiles to include Islamic patterns. These tiles were then used for printing patterns, using acrylic paints. This was a very interesting and enjoyable process (but very messy!) Have a look at some of our finished designs.
Year 5 have recently enjoyed a Science Theme Day for the topic Can I have it again please? during the day the children investigated 4 main ideas:
* Whether materials will dissolve in water
* Whether or not changes in states of material were reversible (e.g. can you unboil an egg?)
* Whether chemical reactions are irreversible (e.g. mixing bicarbonate of soda with vinegar to produce carbon dioxide)
* How to separate a mixture of materials by only using scientific equipment, such as sieves, filters and magnets.
It was a messy, but fun day!
In May, Year 5 visited a local Gurdwara as part of our Sikhism topic. To show respect, they all removed their shoes and covered their heads before entering the temple. They were greeted in the langar (community kitchen) where they learned that volunteers serve free, vegetarian meals to everyone, daily, regardless of their faith. They were shown some of the 5 K’s (which Sikhs wear daily to show their commitment to their religion) and were offered a sweet treat called Karah Parshad. They then saw where the Sikh Holy book (Guru Granth Sahib) was kept during the day and it’s own special room where it is kept at night.
Year 5 Focus Page October 2024
As part of RE day, which was learning about the Sikh religion, we made some Bombay potatoes with lots of different spices. They were very tasty and some of us even had seconds!! We also learnt about the 5K’s and what it would be like to visit The Golden Temple.
To kick off our topic Can you feel the force? Year 5 took part in a skateboarding session. We then talked about the forces acting upon the skateboard: there is friction between the board and the ground, and of course gravity acting upon the board and the skateboarder. Luckily, there were not too many falls!
Year 5 submersed themselves in an extraordinary visual journey into an undersea otherworld, through the book 'Flotsam' by David Wiesner.
The breath-taking, intricately-detailed watercolour illustrations filled with marine marvels captivated and inspired Year 5 to produce some wonderful descriptions of strange life below the sea.
