The Year 5 Team

Online Advent Calendar

As Advent begins this Sunday with Advent Sunday celebrated in Churches, we would like to share this online Advent Calendar with you, produced by the Diocese of Guildford. It explores the Christmas story through Christian artwork, investigating a different artist and aspect of the story throughout the term time days of Advent. Please enjoy sharing this with your family as we prepare for Christmas in school and at home.

This week in Cornwall 5

Week beginning 8th December 2025

Dear parents and carers,

In English this week, we are coming to the end of our class text Cosmic. We are all holding our breath anxiously to see how Liam and his friends will manage to return back to Earth safely. In our grammar focus, we have been re-capping modal verbs and practising using relative clauses to write a speech about protecting our Earth. On Friday, the children will be presenting their speeches to the class.

In Maths, we have been re-capping rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000 and 10,000. We have also been practising using a variety of mental strategies to solve addition and subtraction questions, as well as using column addition and subtraction for numbers over 3 digits.

In Science, the children researched all about solar and lunar eclipses. We found out many interesting facts and drew diagrams to show how they occur. Please feel free to quiz your child on the meaning of the following words: umbra, penumbra, solar eclipse and lunar eclipse. They should be experts!

Thank you so much to those of you who were able to join us this week for our Year 5 and 6 nativity 'Silent Night'. The children worked incredibly hard and loved showing off their acting and singing skills on stage.

May we remind you that term ends next Thursday 18th December at 12:15.

Thank you and have a wonderful week.

Mrs Nash, Mrs McGinley and Mrs Walker.

A typical week in Cornwall:

Home Learning

Spellings - week starting 1st December

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/