Class 5

Week Ending 23/01/2026

We have continued our learning about Explorers this week, particularly thinking about exploring Space. We finished off our drama workshop with Shine, re-enacting the experience of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. We also researched the art work of Ron Miller ahead of us designing our own space art in the coming weeks. Maths has tested our brains this week as we have been subtracting 2-digit numbers with exchange. We have also enjoyed getting to know Bob, The Man on the Moon as our English text.​​​​ In PSHE, we understood the importance of washing hands with soap by doing an experiment using glitter as the germ. We then learnt a handwashing routine to stop the spread of germs. We enjoyed our new topic in science about changing materials and this week tested which objects could change shape. In assembly, Class 5 were announced as winners of two weekly trophies: Outdoor Olivia and Eco Ezra!

Mathematician of the week - Rosie for showing increased confidence in 2-digit subtraction.

Writer of the week - Keegan for lovely predictions with detail.

Star of the week - Avery for using beautiful manners.

Home learning - Maega for her regular use of Spelling Shed.

Dojo - Lexi and Bobby

Week Ending 16/01/2026

Class 5 have had a very exciting week of immersive experiences! We began the week with a visit from the Wonder dome, getting up close with the solar system and consider the journeys explorers go on in space. Tuesday brought the Rock Steady music team into school, with members of our class showing great enthusiasm for the range of instruments. We were very impressed with some of the musical skills our class have! On Wednesday we joined Shine for a drama workshop, re-enacting the famous space mission of Neil Armstrong.  In science, we launched our new topic about changing materials using our long-term memory to create a mind map of related information we already know. Finally, in RE, we used the drama technique, freeze-frame, to re-tell the story of the moral bible story about the Good Samaritan. Wow, it's tiring just thinking about all the excitement we've been lucky to have this week!

Awards 16.1

Star of the week - Krishank for being a brilliant role model to others.

Impressed the teacher - Ezmay for showing increased independence in her learning.

PE star - Esme for demonstrating good control and understanding in Gymnastics.

Dojo winners: Maega and Krishank

Week Ending 09/01/2026

Dojo winners: Fife and Maega

Behaviour role model: Samara - exemplary behaviour today

Impressed your teacher award: Hadassah  - for remembering the scientific vocab so well in today's lesson about Charles Mackintosh

Happy New Year! 

A few highlights included the children considering what healthy eating looks like and identifying what food groups their meal at lunchtime belonged to. Then they made a eat a rainbow poster of  fruits and vegetables - we were impressed with how many they knew! In science, Charles Mackintosh also came to 'visit' C5 on Friday where he told them all about his life and invention making the raincoat. The children learnt so much about the qualities of an inventor and impressed with their grasp of scientific vocabulary. We ended the week enjoying some of the cakes left over from our Christmas party (that were still in date!!).

Week Ending 19/12/2025

Dojo winners: Ezmay and Bobby

Attendance awards

We celebrated members of Class 5 who either had perfect attendance of 100%, good attendance above 95% or improved attendance this term. Well done to all those getting certificates and Christmas chocolate!

We really enjoyed sharing our Christmas nativity with our parents and carers this week. We found our big voices and performed with great confidence. This week has also been busy as we have made our very own hand puppets. We followed our designs to cut the felt we needed before sewing it together using a running stitch. We showed great resilience when sewing and are very proud of our finished products.  In PSHE, we explored how to keep our teeth healthy by testing which drinks affected the inside of eggshell the most. We were all shocked to see how Coke turned the white eggshell dark brown. Our new toothbrushes, handed out today, have given us even more motivation to keep our teeth healthy! To add to the end of term festive fun, Mr Shuffles arrived with his tunes, jokes and snow machine. Much screaming and dancing was done ❄️🎤

Thank you for all the party food donations🍕🍰- we were lucky enough to have two Christmas parties this week which have been wonderful ways to celebrate all our hard work this term🎉

Wishing you all an enjoyable Christmas and New Year! 🎄

Mrs Merritt and Mrs Powley

Week Ending 12/12/2025

Mathematician of the week - Bobby for some brilliant mental arithmetic. 

Writer of the week - Adithya for taking great care of his Awongelama story final draft.

Behaviour role model - Maega for displaying fantastic resilience when learning sewing skills.

Star of the week - Eli for being very helpful around the classroom.

Dojo winners - Imogen and Keegan

Class Frame - Eco Ezra for turning saving power by turning off our classroom lights 

Improved Attendance award - We got 95.7% which is above our school target 👏 We loved our reward: icing (and eating) our gingerbread biscuits 😃

Class 5 have worked hard on maths and reading assessments this week, reflecting on the Y2 knowledge our brains have already learned. We began our DT project, researching a variety of puppets before learning some of the skills required to make our very own. We learned how to thread a needle, tie a knot, sew a running stitch and cut felt. We enjoyed our SEL game this week where we played emotions charades. In RE, we observed how and why Christians celebrate light at Christmas by reading the Christmas story from the Bible. Then we noticed how artists have represented Jesus as the Light of the World through their paintings over hundreds of years. After understanding their symbolism,  we made Christingles and our own stained glass window art 🍑 We so also enjoyed getting more into the Christmas spirit on our official Christmas jumper day -only 10 sleeps to go! 

Week Ending 5.12.25

Mathematician of the week - Rosie for showing resilience and increased confidence in addition.

Writer of the week - Elang Artono for applying his phonic knowledge to share his thoughts.

Behaviour role model - Avery for showing beautiful kindness towards others.

Star of the week - Millie for growing in confidence in the classroom. 

Dojo winners - Maega and Noah

This week we have enjoyed attending the Book Project initiative in the hall, browsing and discussing a range of books. We were delighted to be able to choose 2 each to take home to enjoy. We have been working hard in Maths with our addition strategies, using a range of manipulatives to find the sum. In English we have been story writing as we have recalled the African folk tale, Awongelama. We have also finished our Art this week with some beautiful African patterns that we have printed using our very own hand made printing tiles! We had a busy Friday, investigating which fabrics would be good for a toddler's dungarees as well as having an opportunity to hear a children's community nurse talk about her job and answer our really interesting questions. Golden Time was fun, too! 

Week Ending 28/11/2025

Behaviour role model - Imogen for always listening and trying her best.

Mathematician of the week - Eli for excellent 2-digit addition with exchange.

Fantastic writer - Ella for including more detail in her sentences and feeling successful in her written work.

Impressed my Teacher - Leon for showing great attention to detail in his learning.

Dojo winner: Krishank and Maega

We finished our 3D mixed media maps of South Africa this week and are very pleased with our final outcomes. The children have shown great enthusiasm for our Christmas nativity this week, we look forward to beginning rehearsals over the coming weeks. We have worked hard on our story writing, including a range of interesting words in our sentences. We have also explored printing skills in Art, testing out resist and relief printing and planning our own patterns. Our road safety lesson took place this week so we now know the 4 most important steps before ​​crossing a road: think, stop, look, listen...

Rev Anne came back to visit our class on Friday, this time talking about her role in the community. We asked her some thoughtful questions and listened respectfully to her answers. In science, we enjoyed answering the question: which ball bounces the highest and linked this with whether the material is fit for purpose. 

Week Ending 21/11/2025

Awards 21.11

Behaviour role model - Rosie for being a kind and caring class mate.

Star of the week - Keegan for always showing respect.

Mathematician of the week - Qing for excellent 2-digit addition. 

Home learning - Maega for creating her own map of Africa! 

Impressed my Teacher - Emelia for lovely expression during our drama workshop.

Dojo winner: Avery and Noah

We've had a very creative week in Class 5, making 3d mixed media maps of South Africa. We worked together in small groups to represent the different land features and labelled the key places explored last week. We also enjoyed a visit from Matthew Bellwood where we took part in a story telling workshop based on an old African folk tale. The children enjoyed taking on the roles of the characters and have created their story maps to recall the main events of the story, Awongelama. We also enjoyed a visit from Rev Anne who taught us about the similarities between different faiths. We explored the concept "If we all work together, something beautiful happens," by creating a homemade loom to weave ribbons! We used the drama technique 'conscience alley' to explore empathising with others and giving advice to friends who are facing a dilemma. We further explored how we felt in our Check-in and Check-out sessions this week, And, of course, we enjoyed Golden Time. 

Week Ending 14/11/2025

Mathematician of the week - Arham for excellent participation in Fast Maths sessions.

Writer of the week - Hadassah for showing great accuracy in using capital letters and full stops.

Behaviour role model - Esme for working following instructions in independent tasks.

Star of the Week - Eli for his fantastic enthusiasm for learning!

We began the week thinking our Interfaith week, exploring the concept with 2 different visitors in school. We are looking forward to exploring this further with leaders of other faiths next week too. On Wednesday we became Geographers for the afternoon, using maps of South Africa to locate a range of locations and discuss whether they were human or physical features. In PSHE, we worked hard to work out how to recognise people's feelings, linking this to our own experience. We also had very insightful discussions about whether these feelings sit comfortably and uncomfortably with us.  As part of our science topic on choosing materials, we used a Michael Rosen poem as inspiration to consider different combinations of materials and their objects and weigh up if they were fit for purpose -more on this next week! At the end of the day, we shared the yummy cakes brought in my some of our class.

Week Ending 07-11-2025

Mathematician of the week - Noah for excellent arithmetic work.

Star of the week - Amara for a bringing a brilliant positive attitude to all of her learning.

Writer of the week - Avery for taking great care of her written work.

Behaviour role model - Miles for following school expectations consistently well.

It was lovely to see Class 5 return to school ready for learning after their half-term break. Our Climate Joy day was really enjoyable as we thought about our carbon footprint and sang our Earth Day song with confidence. We turned into detectives to complete the sponsored scavenger hunt, considering aspects of the school environment that contribute positively to the climate situation. Thank you for all the generous sponsorship received. We ended the day by celebrating the arrival of hedgehogs in our school grounds using the shelters built in the school garden. We re-used natural materials to create our own hedgehog pictures in the outdoor area! If you complete any of the home learning tasks supporting our climate curriculum, we would love to see your work in school. A highlight of the week also has to be winning the Punctuality Pedro award - and we demolished the biscuits with impressive speed! What a fab way to start the new half term -keep this up Class 5

Week Ending 24/10/2025

Mathematician of the week - Tommy for showing great confidence in addition this week and helping his peers.

Writer of the week - Lexi-Rose for recognising her fantastic efforts in writing all about Nelson Mandela.

Home learning - Aila for thinking about South Africa at home and sharing this with the class through books and food packaging!

The last week of the first half term brought our Black History Month assembly where we really enjoyed sharing our fantastic knowledge all about Nelson Mandela! We have been able to use this information to write our own non-fiction reports about his life too, trying hard to use a range of conjunctions. We were very fortunate to welcome a class parent in to share their family celebrations of Diwali with us too. We also reflected on our visit to Yorkshire Wildlife Park by creating a block graph showing the amount of animals we saw. In our final drumming lesson, we showcased all we had learnt about rhythm on our Bamboo Tamboos in an accomplished performance.  And of course, we finished off the week with a little extra Golden Time as a reward for being a wonderful and hard-working class. We hope you had a lovely half term! 

Week Ending 17/10/25

Writer of the week - Ibn for writing a brilliant recount of our trip.

Mathematician of the week - Emelia for following strategies carefully.

Star of the week - Bobby for being a fantastic role model.

Behaviour role model - Bella for being very sensible on our school trip.

Class 5 were very lucky to experience a variety of animals at Yorkshire Wildlife Park this week. We were treated to a pack of lions, including 3 cubs, rhinos, giraffes, tigers and many more. A lot of the children enjoyed touching a snake, hissing cockroaches and a giant African land snail. The polar bears kept us entertained in various ways too! The children's wonderful experience has been reflected beautifully in their writing as they have used a range of adjectives to describe the animals they saw. In PSHE, the children showcased their listening and speaking skills, sharing openly about their achievements as well as things they are not yet successful at. It showed how reflective and respectful  we can be as a class😀Finally the children organised food into different  groups so we can remember to eat the right amount

of different types of food to stay healthy. What a fabulous week! 🦁🦒🐯🐒🦏🌍

Week Ending 10/10/25

Writer of the week - Aila for some excellent descriptive sentences. 

Star of the week - Noah for always working hard. 

Impressed the teacher - Olivia for being a kind member of the class.

Home learning - Ibn for good spelling practise. 

In History we began exploring the work of Nelson Mandela and why he is an important part of the past for South Africa. The children amazed me with their fantastic recall of knowledge and facts after completing a timeline of his. In science, we learnt what animals need to survive and decided which items a human baby needs or wants, justifying our answers. As part of our RE we played a game of tig to help us consider how good choices make a game fun, safe and fair and what happens when rules are broken. We are all looking forward to our school trip to Yorkshire Wildlife Park Wednesday, and in the meantime, hope you are able to get out and enjoy the autumn sunshine at home🍂

Week Ending 03/10/25

Home Learning - Krishank for excellent Spelling practice

Behaviour role model - Keegan for always being a good role model.

Writer of the week - Leon for trying super hard with his character description.

Star of the week - Hadassah for settling into Class 5 so well.

Mathematician of the week - Arham for brilliant number bond work.

Class 5 have been working really hard to apply their learning in English this week, using adjectives to create noun phrases in their character descriptions. They were excellent when recalling learning from Year 1 to complete a world map and were able to identify the 5 oceans as well as the continents! It was great to see how confident everyone was using an atlas. We all enjoyed our drumming session, this week focusing on pulse. In PSHE, we considered the qualities that make a good friend and in RE we discussed our most important class rules. As a class, we have set ourselves two targets for next week: come to school every day and practise our spellings on Spelling Shed 💪

Week Ending 26/09/2025

Star of the week - Ezmay for being a superstar listener and trying hard at all times. 

Mathematician of the week - Imogen for some excellent flexible partitioning.

Writer of the week - Adithya for using adjectives to describe in his sentences.

Behaviour role model - Lexi for following the Golden Rules all day every day!

Home learning star - Taevon for all of his time on Spelling Shed.

This week has marked the start of our writing unit, using our knowledge gained from the Greedy Zebra story. We created our own African animals before making a word bank of interesting words to use in our descriptive writing. In Maths we have continued to grow our place value understanding using part-part-whole diagrams. In Geography we researched UK landmarks, finding out which country these well-known places were in. It was lovely to hear some of the children's previous experience of the landmarks we explored!

European Day of Languages was a definite highlight of this week, getting off to a great start with many of us arriving dressed in national colours, and some with incredible cakes (winners will be announced next week in the assembly)🍰🎂 . We made some fantastic European flag bunting, played a 'hello' bingo game, listened and retold a story in French, enjoyed a European school dinner and also visited the Y6 French cafe!

Week Ending 19/09/25

Mathematician of the week - Samara for excellent place value understanding.

Star of the week - Bella for forming lovely relationships in the first few weeks of Y2.

Behaviour role model - Tommy for showing excellent listening skills.

Home learning - Eli for working on Spelling Shed.

This week, we have been learning about word classes in English, exploring how nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are used to add interest to text. In Maths, we have continued using place value knowledge, solving problems using 2-digit numbers. Shine helped us create animal dances as we went back on the South Africa safari. In science, we closely observed life cycles of animals in the different animal groups we are learning about, ready to write about the life cycle of a butterfly next week. Our first drumming lesson of the year proved to be very popular and we tried hard to follow the rhythm on Bamboo Tamboos (photos next week!). Once again, we rounded the week off with a wonderful Golden Time.