Welcome to Year 5
Spring Term 2026
Welcome to Year 5.
Our scheduled PE days for this half term are Wednesday and Thursday, however this will be weather dependent. Please make sure PE kits are in school every day as these days can be subject to change.
Please bring in reading books and records every day.
Key Dates Summer Term
Tues 21st April - Year 5 Jodrell Bank trip
Wed 22nd April Year 5 and 6 Swimming Gala 5:30pm
Thurs 7th May Year 5 Class Assembly for parents – 9:15am
Fri 22nd May Break up for Half Term
HALF TERM
Mon 1st June Children return to school
Wed 3rd June 6-week Orienteering programme starts for Year 5 and Year 6
Fri 12th June Piano Concert for parents whose children play in school – 9:15am
Tues 16th June School Disco
Wed 17th June Whole Class Photo Day
W/c Mon 22nd June Diversity week
Mon 22nd June KS 2 Sports Day (1.30pm -Village Green for parents to watch ) reserve day 26/6/26
Tues 7th July Year 5 Barnstondale Trip
Thurs 9th July Musical Evening – 6:30pm
Fri 10th July Reports to Parents
Fri 17th July Final Day of School Year
Key Documents
A-Z Safari Visit
We were very lucky to have a visit from A-Z Safari and there brilliant animals. During our session, we got to learn about and meet a Giant Snail, a Parrot, a Meerkat, a Snake, a Hedgehog and a Tortoise.
Science Week 2026
During Science week, we were able to take part in two brilliant workshops. The first was linked to our Forces topic earlier this year where we were visited by Mr Worthington who taught us about aerodynamics and explained how planes are able to stay in the air despite their weight (he even brought in part of a plane to show us!) . As part of this we built paper aeroplanes and learnt about how differnet forces such as gravity and air resistance impacted our paper aeroplanes.
Then we were visited by Mrs Fox, a forensic scientist who taught us all about her job and the exciting and interesting science involved. We had to look for evidence on clothing and then created our own footprints.
World Book Day 2026!
On Thursday 5th March, we celebrated World Book Day by dressing as a word or character which represented a letter so we could make a Thornton Hough Dictionary. Our class letters were S,T,U and V and we had a huge variety of words including ventriloquist, scintillating, teenager, Victorian and tourist.
During the day we read books with F2, completed a World Book Day quiz and took part in a whole school assembly.
Children's Mental Health Week 2026
During Children's Mental Health Week 2026, our theme was 'This is My Place'. Throughout the week we have looked at which places are special and what makes them special to us. We created acrostic poems with the themes of belonging and the importance of feeling part of something. We also considered why people are so important in making places special. We then shared what we had done and learnt with the rest of the school during assembly.
