Sports Day - Friday 26th June 2026 12:10

All children should arrive at school at the usual time (8.20-8.30am) wearing their continent-coloured T-shirt, PE shorts, trainers and sun hat please.

Your child’s continent team and respective colour is below,

This week in Cornwall 5

Week beginning 15th June 2026

Dear parents and carers,

This week in English, we have discovered that Pax has been abandoned in the woods by his carers. The children have written letters to Peter's dad, explaining how he is feeling about all the changes going on in his life, but especially his heartbreak and guilt at leaving Pax to fend for himself. Cornwall have also used causal conjunctions (as a result, due to the fact) to write a survival guide explanation on what Peter will need to survive and what he will need to rescue Pax. Bear Grylls has come in very handy with his top tips! 

In Maths, we have continued looking at decimals and focused on adding and subtracting decimals with different numbers of decimal places. Next week, we will be looking at decimal sequences and also multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000.

In History this week, we have entered the Classical period of Ancient Greece. The children have been discussing what a 'democracy' is and have looked at Athens in more detail as a City State. They were then asked to write a paragraph explaining the significance of Athens as a City State and how it influenced the way that people lived.

Please can we remind you to ask your children to apply sun cream before coming to school and to bring their sunhats.

Thank you and have a wonderful week.

Mrs Nash, Mrs McGinley and Mrs Walker.

The Year 5 Team

A typical week in Cornwall: