This week in Sussex 5:

Dear parents and carers,

Your children are turning into the most amazing writers!  In the last week they have written stories about Odysseus, a speech by Odysseus and a setting description about The Land of the Dead.  The vocabulary and sentence structures that they can use and manipulate has been very impressive.  Below are some pictures of the first group of children performing their speeches to the class and demonstrating their writing abilities.

In maths we are learning about coordinates, including using known coordinates to find missing coordinates.  We will learn how to use coordinates to reflect and translate shapes tomorrow and Friday.

It is Southborough Science week this week.  The children have learnt about blood from a parent who came in and performed a blood experiment.  They have also investigated motion and gravity with a marble experiment in class.

We have been learning about the Minoans and Myceneans in History - two different periods of Ancient Greek history.  It has been fascinating learning where some of our traditions come from and how sophisticated these cultures were.

The children have been practising their athletic skills in PE, preparing themselves for sports day in June - I look forward to watching them compete and show off their skills to you all.

There is no homework over half term.  The next homework will be set on Wednesday 3rd June

Thank you and have a wonderful week.

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   9x  times table and 19 x teens times table.  

Curriculum Overview

The Year 5 Team

A typical week in Sussex 5