Valley Primary School
Year 5
Curriculum Information & Website Links
Life Skills Activities
- Valley Life Skills
- Year 5 Interpersonal Skills Activity Bank
- Summer 2 Brain Booster and Curious Challenge
Home Learning Activities
- Year 5 Newsletter Summer 2
- Year 5 Topic Home Learning Summer 2
- Year 5 Spellings Summer 2
- Year 5 KIRF Summer 2
Special Announcements
Sharing Our Learning . . . Year 5 Photo Gallery
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Year 5 had a fabulous time for our Topic Express afternoon.
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We had lots of fun providing a ‘human robot’ with instructions on how to be an expert Rooftopper then acting them out.
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In DT, we have been used a metal ruler, bench hook, clamp and hacksaw to mark, prepare and cut our materials for our WW2 themed cams mechanism toys.
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In English, we worked with a partner to identify effective features in a WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like) and features that were missing or needing up-levelling in a WABOLL (What A Bad One Looks Like)
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Holst 5 enjoyed entertaining some of our parents and carers in our Guitar Concert this week!
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Webber have been exploring jumping and landing, with increasing control, balance and agility during our PE lessons.
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In English, we have been using a thesaurus to develop our vocabulary skills by exploring appropriate synonyms, that we can use effectively, when writing out narrative for our class text: The Rooftoppers.
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To prepare for our writing, we did some drama to develop different ideas.
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We looked at a WAGOLL to find key features before completing our own writing.
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As part of our World Book Day we looked at the author M G Leonard.
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As part of our Science Day celebrations we did lots of experiments that had a theme of time.
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Year 5 have enjoyed dressing up as our favourite characters for World Book Day 2024.
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Year 5 were lucky enough to head to Leicester's Space Centre to learn about the history of space travel, planets and stars.
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We have been creating stop motion animations as part of our Topic, Urban Influence.
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This half term, Year 5 have been enjoying their dance lessons.
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Year 5 enjoyed Number Day, where they used practical resources to carry out an investigation.
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On Wednesday, Year 5 enjoyed a virtual author workshop from Natasha Hastings.
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Year 5 have really enjoyed making a healthy stuffed Greek pitta in their DT cooking and nutrition lessons.
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Year 5 have been using their ‘collaborative’ skills to find features of argument texts in English and even used crayons to create a key.
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As part of our Science topic about Forces, we made catapults then tested them out.
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In Science, Year 5 have been investigating the effects different surfaces have on a travelling vehicle as part of their Forces unit.
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Before we could make our Greek Pittas, we tasted the different elements to see which foods we would like and which we would omit from our creation.
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We made Christmas cards, using different art techniques we have used.
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We have enjoyed learning in Maths lessons skills for our future lives. We learnt the skills to design our own theme parks.
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Year 5 have been learning to be safe on their bicycles when on the road, learning how to signal and manouvre.
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Webber have responded to descriptions within the text, Skellig, by using body actions and facial gestures to convey a character’s feelings.
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Some children from Year 5 attended a dodgeball tournament.
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In Science, we have been enjoying learning about forces and created a parachute to investigate air resistance.
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Our new novel, Skellig has us gripped already!
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As part of our new topic, we took part in our Engage day to immerse us in Greek life.
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As part of Black History Month, we learnt about famous black women and created some tracing paper fact files about them.
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During Art, we have been carving lino, ready to make a repeating pattern print.
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Our Health Heroes did a fabulous job of collecting the data for Walk to School Week.
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Year 5 visited a Sikh temple, known as a Gurdwara.
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During History, we created a timeline about the Viking era.
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In Science, we have been investigating materials and their properties.
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As part of our Express event, we dressed up as Vikings and made Viking brooches.
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Year 5 have been developing their defending skills in football this week by intercepting and passing with accuracy.
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Year 5 have been enjoying hot seating to develop their ideas for writing.
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Year 5 have been enjoying exploring their new book by Frank Cottrell-Boyce called ‘Cosmic’.
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