Y5 Weekly Update 10.10.25

Friday 10^th October 2025 – Y5 Weekly Update

Looking back: 

It’s been a productive week in Year 5 – we’ve got so much done! The children have… written some train poetry, written an imagined letter home from a member of the Windrush Generation, produced some steam train fact-files and artwork, written the diary of an ancient Greek child, explored Hindu gods… and even had time for some maths too!

On Wednesday, the children had a really interesting session with Alex Bamford, from the Education Library Service, who discussed inspiring books with the children as part of the lead up to the exhibition.

Year 5 – Pupils’ Highlights:

• It was interesting writing a letter home imagining we were someone from the Windrush Generation.
• We enjoyed imagining ourselves as an Ancient Greek child and writing a diary.
• We liked listening to Alex Bamford discuss books and literature.

Family discussion questions:

• Can the children tell you how some key facts about how Ancient Greek children lived?
• Ask the children what they have learned so far about the Windrush Generation.

Looking forward:

Next week, it’ll be another busy week of continuing to work on lots of interesting exhibition work.

In maths, we will be concluding a little topic on addition and subtraction strategies, and moving on to multiplication and division.

We will be concluding an investigation about levers in Science.

I hope you have a great weekend!