NEW home learning due in Tuesday 11th November 2025

The Year 5 Team

This week in Cornwall 5

Week beginning 3rd November 2025

Dear parents and carers,

Rollercoasters are exciting rides found at amusement parks so you will be surprised to find out that Cornwall 5 experienced their own exhilarating ride this week during our English lesson!! Liam, the main character in our story, is obsessed with the thrill of theme park rides so the children researched different types of rollercoasters and we watched them on the big classroom screen and it felt we were on the rides ourselves!  The children then wrote a non-chronological report based on their own made-up ride. They worked really hard to generate exciting vocabulary to effectively bring their descriptions alive.

In maths we have now come to the end of our multiplication and division unit and are turning our attention to fractions. We will initially be finding and recognising equivalent fractions and although we are no longer explicitly teaching division and multiplication, the children will see how our multiplication knowledge will be needed with this topic too.

In Geography we were learning more about the United Kingdom by identifying the relative locations and distances between places using a scale and a compass. The children were able to measure the distance from two cities in the UK and then using the scale of 50 km for every cm, convert it into the actual distance. We were amazed at the distance between Dundee and Plymouth being 675 km.

Our Foundation subject home learning starts tomorrow.  Please see the document at the top of the website to see which group your child is in and which subject they need to study first.  Please send the homework into school on Tuesday so the children can feed back to one another about their learning.

Have a wonderful week.

Mrs Nash, Mrs McGinley and Mrs Walker.

A typical week in Cornwall:

Home Learning

Spellings - week starting 27th October

Multiplication Tables

Weekly practise of multiplication tables is vital in supporting mathematical development. Below is a chart of the 36 essential facts to learn. This is especially helpful for children who are almost fluent.

Times Tables Rockstars! 

To keep practising the multiplication taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account. 

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Challenge yourself to beat your score and build your knowledge as you become a Rockstar!

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.

Reading

Children should bring their Accelerated Reading Book to and from school each day. When they have finished reading, children are asked to complete a quiz before changing their book. 

https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6704864

Parents please log your child's reading on the BOOM reader Parent Portal or by using the BOOM reader parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week.

boomreader.co.uk/parents

Useful Links:

Phonics https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/read-write-inc-1/

Reading https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/reading-7/