This week in Dorset 5

Week beginning 20th April 2026

Dear parents and carers,

Firstly, it was lovely to welcome the class back after the easter break. I've been hearing snippets of amazing times had which is lovely. I hope to keep hearing more as the week goes on.

We have started our new book in English- 'The adventures of Odysseus'. So far we have only heard a small part and not even met our lead character yet. However, what we do know is that the Greek Gods are going to be important to this story. So we have started to do some research on them to find out all the cool and crazy things they did. We will be taking all of this information to create a lovely fact file about the gods. 

In Science we have started looking at materials and their properties. So expect children to be walking around the house wanting to test if things are waterproof!

We got to do our final catch up swimming lesson this week and it was brilliant to see the improvements that every child made. I am so proud of their effort and perseverance. 

We will be doing Forest School this term with PE starting on Thursday and then moving to Monday on Week 4.

I'm sure there is a lot of excitement building regarding the PGL next week. For those children staying they will still be having a fun and different timetable which they will hear more about in the coming day.s 

Mr Borland

The Year 5 Team