Year 5

April 2026 Round-up

April has been another busy month for Year 5. We are finally able to start enjoying some learning outdoors too! In PE we have been working on our athletics skills, particularly running, which will be great practice for Sports Day in June. We are also completing a second unit of orienteering, meaning we can use our newly installed control points again. We have started by making our orienteering work cross-curricular and linking it with recent maths work on Roman numerals.

In English we are reading the book "Percy Jackson and the Olympians- the lightning thief" and writing our own greek myths. This links nicely with our current Histroy topic on the Ancient Greek civilisation. So far, we have enjoyed learning about the city-states and daily life in Anceint Greece. In English, we have created our own god or goddess and monster to feature in our myths.

In Science, we are learning about forces and have carried out an experiment which tests whether heaver items fall faster. We have also tried using Newton meters.

In RE, we are learning about the importance of the Torah in Judaism. We measured out a replica Torah on the playground- it was an amazing 18m long!

This half term we also competed in the house team maths competition. This was in the style of the 1% club and the winning team from Year 5 was Hazel! The overall school winners were Oak team! Each team showed great resilence, teamwork and determination when answering tricky maths problems.

Finally, we have been very lucky to have received new furniture in class this half term. I'm sure you'll agree that it looks lovely!

March 2026 Round-up

In English this half term, we have been reading the wonderful novel "The inventions of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick. We have loved reading the story of how Hugo came to live inside the walls of a Paris train station and have written our own chapter to add to the story.

In Maths, we have worked on a wide range of skills and have been introduced to mode, median and range when handling data.

In Geography, we have been learning about the importance of our oceans and how we can protect them, including the effects of climate change on The Great Barrier Reef.

In DT, we have been looking at developing a recipe including tasting a range of bolognese sauces. We scored them out of 10 on taste, smell and packing then looked at the cost of each one. Our overall favourite was a 79p Morrisons own bolognese sauce which we thought was great value for money.

We have also enjoyed a great rugby session with Seb from Fylde Rugby club this month. We were able to learn some new games which we have used in our other rugby sessions.

In Science we have learnt about the human timeline and what changes occur during each stage.

This month also saw a fun day of activities for World Book Day and the final of Baines' Got Talent held at Millfield. We were so proud of Etta and Soraya, who performed a song and a dance respectively. Etta even came 3rd overall!

February 2026 Round-up

We have had another busy month! We have loved learning more about the planet in our space topic and have covered our Anglo-Saxon and Viking unit in more depth by looking at how the country was ruled. In English we have written a new version of a Science-fiction story and created sections of a non fiction text all about the planets. We enjoyed sharing our stories with Year 2.

In Music, we have enjoyed created small bands in our ukulele sessions, performing a song to the rest of the class.

In Art, we have worked on continuous line drawings as well are our entries into the Young Seasiders Competition.

On Monday 23rd February we were invited to watch a special concert performed by the Nation Youth Orchestra at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom. We have a fantastic afternoon filled with Music.

In PE, we have enjoyed some orienteering using our new map facilities.

January 2026 Round-up

This half term we have been learning about Earth and space in Science. This is a fascinating topic which also links in to our English work on science fiction stories. We have enjoyed reading The Jamie Drake Equation by Christopher Edge, as well as other short sci-fi stories to help gather ideas for our own stories. We have also delivered an assembly to parents and carers on the topic of space. All of the children delivered their lines clearly and enjoyed sharing their knoweldge with the rest of the school and families.

In History this half term we are learning about the Anglo-Saxons and The Vikings. We have found out about why the Anglo-Saxons came to Brittania and how the country was ruled at the time.

In PE we are are enjoying learning the rules of badminton and improving our skills by playing matches. We have also started doing some orienteering, learning how to orientate the map.

In Music, we have continued to learn the ukulele and have formed bands. We have practised in our bands then performed a piece to the rest of the class.

December 2025 Round-up

What a brilliant December we have had. We had all thoroughly enjoyed the festive activities from Christmas dinner day to the pantomime trip and our class party day!

In DT we have looked at electrical system. We have built doodlers and then designed and created our own wobble bots in groups.

In English we have read the story of Alice in Wonderland and the poem 'Twas the night beofre Christmas. We then learnt and performed the poem in groups.

In PE, we completed our unit on gymnastics by performing the sequences that we have been working on in pairs.

In Science, we completed an experiment on thermal conductivity, recording our results in a table and writing a conclusion.

Wishing all of our families a wonderful and restful Christmas break, see you all on January 5th!

November 2025 Round-up

In November Year 5 have been loving taking part in Joy of Moving provided by Fleetwood Town Community Trust. This is a 6 week programme consisting of a 45-minute classroom session and a 45-minute activity session each week. We have looked at diet, exercise, food groups and sleep in the classroom sessions and a wide variety of activities including circuits and dodgeball in the activity sessions.

In PE we have continued with our work on different poses in gymnastics, including addition counter balances and counter tensions to create sequences.

In Science we have been learning about properties and changes. We have written a complete experiment involving the effects of heat.

In Geography we have been leanring about The Alps. We have found out about the location of The Alps and its climate and thought about what there is to do in the alpine city of Innsbruck.

We continue to develop our ukulele skills in our weekly music lesson delivered by Lancashire Music Service.

In RE we have studied a range of Jesus' Miracles and how Christians feel about there and in PSHE we have have been looking at ways to relax and the importance of sleep.

We are looking forward to a very busy and exciting December.

October 2025 Round-up

This month we have continued with our topic on Crime and Punishment in History by looking at the police force was formed and comparing punishments in the past to modern day.

In Science we have enjoyed setting up experiments to help us understand how evaporation happens and in Art we have created a printing tile.

In English we have created scripts for persuasive videos about a place in the British Isles and created videos using iMovie.

In PE we have enjoyed creating matched and mirrored poses in gymnastics and in Music we have continued to devleop our skill of playing the ukulele.

September 2025 Round-up

What a great start to Year 5 we have had!

In History, we are learning about how Crime and Punishment has changed over time and we went on a trip to Lancaster Castle for a tour. It was great to see how significant the castle is in crime and punishment.

In Music we have enjoyed learning to play the ukulele which will continue all year. We are so excited to become experts over the year.

In English, we have been reading legends and the story "Outlaw" by Michael Morpurgo. We have then written our own legends based on the ones we have read. We have also enjoyed using our Google Classroom to help us with writing ideas.

In PE, we have become experts at netball, developing and applying the skills of passing and shooting and working on tactics too.

In Art, we have designed portrait poems and created backgrounds. We have loved being about the be creative with what we create.

June 2025 Round-up

June has been another busy month in Year 5!

We began the month with a series of workshops "Voices for Equality" where children learnt about prejudice and discrimination in modern society. The workshops opened up lots of interesting discussion and children were very open and respectful in their questions. It has helped us learn how to be positive role models and to ensure fairness, inclusivity and respect for all.

There have been lots of extra curricular opportunities this month, from cricket to ultimate frisbee and Year 5 have represented Team Baines excellently. It is lovely to see the children put themselves forward to try new things. This continued in "Health Week" where we sampled taekwondo, yoga, UV dodgeball and ultimate frisbee.

The highlight of the month has been our PLT campaign. 21 children applied to be on the PLT which is incredible! The standard this year was fantastic, thank you to our families for supporting your children in making their posters and videos. We are proud of each and every one of you and are looking forward to the ideas that PLT and our new prefects will bring in the coming year.

Year 5 have also worked hard with Mrs Mylecraine to continue to develop our Forest School and outdoor areas. We are eagerly awaiting the results from the Wyre In Bloom competition.

Alongside all of this, we have also been learning lots in the classroom. We have read "Skellig" by David Almond, in readiness for a workshop at Millfield next month. In English and Maths, we are focusing on consolidating all of the new skills we have learnt this year in our final push ready for Year 6. Our final Geography topic is learning about the local area and population change and we are working towards a project day with Wain Homes to become architects using our Art and Design Technology skills too.

We have taken lots of pictures of our Forest School this half term to use in a magazine article we are writing in English. They are absolutely gorgeous and some are below for you to see, along with our brass performance!

May 2025 Round-up

May has been a busy month for Year 5!

We kicked off with BGT where Year 5 had a huge representation. After close auditions, Daniella and Ellie performed a fantastic gymnastics routine, and Florrie, Amelia, Izzy, Violet, Alice, Amelia, Evelyn, Holly, Primrose and Halle formed "The Merge" and choreographed a group dance. Unfortunately, the final trophies were just out of our reach but we are so proud of our entries.

Our visit to Rossall School for a performing arts workshop was enjoyed by all and many children were inspired by the fantastic facilities on offer at Rossall. We had a fabulous day acting, dancing, singing and playing the trumpet - perhaps we will have some future Rossall scholars...

In English, children have been creating their own adventure stories based around the book "The Girl Who Stole An Elephant" by Nizrana Farook. The story has taken us on an adventure across Sri Lanka and children are still really enjoying sharing the story with their own copy of the text.

We have combined our ICT skills with Science this half term to create videos explaining the life cycles of different animals, some examples are uploaded below for you to enjoy.

In RE, we have been learning about Judaism and hopefully in Summer 2 we will be bringing our learning to life by visiting St Anne's Synagogue...look out for information coming soon!