Cornwall

Cornwall

Year 5 Home Learning

This week in Cornwall 5

Week beginning 2nd March 2026

Dear parents and carers,

In English this week, we have introduced active and passive voice. The children have highlighted chapter 2 of Floodland to find examples of active voice and practised changing these into the passive voice. An example would be; I buttered the bread (active) and The bread was buttered (passive). Cornwall have also started planning a formal letter from Zoe's father to the local authorities to complain about their living conditions and ask for help. The children have included comparative conjunctions as well as other features of formal letter writing.

In Maths, we have been focusing on representing thousandths as decimals and ordering and comparing decimals. Next week we will be continuing this topic and looking at percentages.

Our Discovery Centre session today was a lot of fun as the children were shown some of the books that they will be able to get in exchange for their book token as part of World Book Week. They were given 5 minutes to look at each book, write what they liked or disliked and say whether they would choose this book. Hopefully this will help your child to decide on an appropriate book. Please not that these book tokens are only valid until 15th March.

Thank you and have a wonderful week.

Mrs Nash, Mrs McGinley and Mrs Walker.