Welcome to Year 5!

Year 5 teaching staff:

                                Class teacher - Ms Marskell

Writing Competition 2025:

This year's theme for the writing competition is the Lion King.

We would like the children to write a story based in the universe of Disney's Lion King. It is up to the children whether they would like to include Dorkus (Richard Best's beloved corgi) as one of the main characters, or whether they would prefer to keep the original characters the same.

Could the children write an alternative ending to the original story?

Perhaps they can create an origin story for why Scar became so evil?

Is there a version where Mufasa doesn't meet his end?

What if the hyenas rebelled against their master?

We would like the children to take care to craft this piece of writing at home. Be mindful to proof-read your writing carefully and make it as engaging as possible.

The deadline for the writing entries is Friday 4th July. Happy writing!

Our learning last week:

This week:

This week students attended a trip to the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London. We had the opportunity to walk around an exhibit of Hindu culture. We then walked around the temple admiring the architecture and statues of deities. We watched a video that explained how the temple was made and how long it took to complete. We then witnessed a prayer service before finally getting the opportunity to ask any questions we had thought about throughout the visit.

Maths: In math this week we have moved on to the topic of converting units, students have looked at Kilograms and kilometres, millimetres and millilitres, converting units of length and also converting between metric and imperial units.

RE: In RE our big question this term is  How does a worldview help people decide what is important? We have looked at some significant individuals and how their world views have influenced their actions. Students chose a significant figure to research and created posters on these. 

PE: This term in PE we are doing Dance and rounders.