Sports Day - Friday 17th July

Please note that due to the extreme heat, our KS2 Sport's Day has been postponed until Friday 17th July.

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 29th June 2026

Dear parents and carers,

In English this week, the children have planned and written a non-chronological about red foxes.This is linked to one of the main characters in this terms story, 'Pax'.  The children were able find information from a variety of texts and make notes from an information video.  It was great practise making notes and realising that we can't write too much and keep it brief.

In Maths, the focus of this week has been exploring negative numbers in real-life contexts, including temperatures, distances above and below sea level and floors in a building that go underground.  The children were able to give plenty of real life situations and were confident at labelling scales with positive and negative numbers.

In Science, we were exploring that a mixture is a combination of two or more substances that aren’t chemically joined and can be separated back into their individual substances. There are two types of mixtures: heterogeneous and homogeneous.  We were able to make our own sieve and experienced separating different types of soil and other natural substances.

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: