Cornwall

Cornwall

Year 5 Home Learning

This week in Cornwall 5

Week beginning 18th May 2026

Dear parents and carers,

As part of Science Week, the children carried out and recorded a scientific investigation linked to forces.

We set up a cardboard tube on a ramp and positioned a large marble at the bottom. The aim was to work out how to use a small marble moving down the ramp to move the larger marble as far as possible.

The children recorded how far the marble was able to roll at different heights and recorded this on a table. They were then able to transfer this data onto a line graph.

The children found that sometimes not all scientific experiments go to plan and you have to be willing to try different things out to get close to the predicted results.

In English we have continued reading the Adventures of Odysseus. We have left the Land of the Dead and have found out that Odysseus needs to get to the island of the Sun God, Hyperion.

To do this, one of his tasks was to get past the island of the Sirens and their enchantments. The children planned and wrote a speech that they thought Odysseus could give his crew after being the only person to experience the hypnotic sounds of the Sirens (which would usually send sailors to their doom). The children were tasked with using appropriate speech punctuation and adventurous vocabulary.

In Maths, we have been reading and plotting coordinates as well as solving coordinate problems. The children have also translated simple shapes and translated points with coordinates. Next term we will be returning to decimals and we will be learning to add and subtract decimals as well as multiplying and dividing decimals by 10, 100 and 1,000.

We cannot believe that Term 5 has gone so quickly! We look forward to seeing the children on Wednesday 3rd June. A quick reminder that Forest School will begin on Wednesday 10th June.

Thank you and have a wonderful half term.

Mrs Nash, Mrs McGinley and Mrs Walker.