Sussex

Sussex

Year 5 Home Learning

This week in Sussex 5:

Week beginning 16 March 2026

Dear parents and carers,

In English we have been studying and writing poetry. Floodland has some poetry by William Blake in it, so we looked at Little Girl Lost and Little Girl Found. We finished the poetry unit by writing a setting description and then creating a group free poem on strips of paper which we moved around to create the best poem possible.

In maths we have started learning about perimeter - we know this is round the 'rim' of the shape because rim is in perimeter! Some of us have forgotten our shape names and properties and some of us have already forgotten how to convert fractions into decimals to solve perimeter problems.

In RE we have designed new Easter symbols, having looked at what a symbol represents. We are going to test ourselves next week to remember the whole Easter story.

Our last Forest School session was lots of fun. We said thank you and goodbye to our FS school and have many good memories of our FS sessions.

No home learning this week as we're approaching the end of term.

Mrs Townshend and Ms Walker.

Spellings are set on a Wednesday for testing on the following Wednesday.

Times tables will be tested on a Friday - this week we will be testing 3 x times table and 13 x teens times table.