Year 5
Weekly Update - Friday 6th June 2025
Summary of this week:
A great first week back to school! Everyone is very excited about researching all things ‘dragon’ for our forthcoming non-chronological report in English, in line with our new model text based on the book Dragonology.
Our learning next week:
Maths: We are continuing the topic of measurements and weights.
English: We will be planning and writing our non-chronological reports, based on our model text inspired by the book ‘Dragonology’.
In geography we will be learning about desert locations and their features, in art we will creating backgrounds for our portraits, in computing we will be finding out about pixels and the compression of images, in Religious Education we discuss religions impact on life and in science we will be experimenting on how different materials dissolve.
Homework:
Spellings: This week’s spellings are from our Dragonology text, and you will use them in your writing:
combustible European decapitating nocturnal evolution
Maths: Worksheet
English: Reading at home.
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Notices & Reminders:
Sports Day: Weather permitting, our sports day will be on Friday 13th June 9.30-11.30am. The children are invited to wear a t-shirt of the colour of their house.
Thames Young Mariners: Scroll down to see the presentation about the trip.
Swimming: Foxes and Dingoes, Wednesdays. Wolves and Ark, Thursdays
If you have a full DBS, please consider volunteering to read with children from Year 5 on Tuesdays and/or Friday afternoons, please contact us on year5@eastwick.thpt.org.uk
Reminder: all children need to come to school with a fully-stocked pencil case which includes a blue handwriting pen, pencil, purple pen, ruler and glue-stick please.
Thank you for all of your support.
Welcome to Year 5
Please find below the presentation from our Year 5 Parents Information Evening held in September 2024, which provides useful information for parents and carers about Year 5 at Eastwick in 2024-25.
Year 5 Parents Information Evening 2024-25