Sussex

Sussex

Year 5 Home Learning

This week in Sussex 5:

Week beginning 23rd February 2026

Dear parents and carers,

We desperately need a parent helper to walk the children to and from swimming on Tuesdays from half term to Easter (6 weeks) Please could you contact the school ASAP if you are able to help.

Forest School is on Wednesday afternoons. It is incredibly muddy in the woods at the moment so please send your child into school with wellies and be prepared for the children to come out of school muddy.

The children have started the term with lots more energy and concentration for learning, having been refreshed with their half term holiday. We have begun a new book called Floodland by Marcus Sedgewick. We have identified where Norwich is and discussed how Floodland might be set in the future when sea levels have risen and Norwich is now an island. We have been introduced to Zoe, the main character, who has already had to exert herself and escape from the island in a little rowing boat. Chapter One has left us with many questions which will be revealed over the next few days and weeks.

We have begun a new maths unit understanding decimals and the relationship with fractions. The children have begun by manipulating tenths and hundredths before moving onto thousandths later this week.

In science we started our learning by studying different stages of human gestation. We compared the size of a baby in the uterus with different fruits and vegetables - from a poppy seed to a squash!

In RE our first question of the term was 'Who was responsible for Jesus' death?' We had lots of ideas, opinions and thoughts about who might be responsible, from Adam and Eve, Judas, Pontias Pilate to us!

Term 4 is truly off to a great start!

Mrs Townshend and Ms Walker.

Please find the home learning at the top of this page.

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 12 times table and mixed teens times table.