4 months ago
Posted on 09th Jan 2026 by Mr Jackson

Year 5 Snow Day activities

Good morning year 5.

We hope you are all excited about the snow day and have plans to go outside and safely enjoy the snow!

We would love for you to build a snowman, snow pet or anything your imagination can dream up! Take a picture and email it to our year 5 email address (newdale.year5team@taw.org.uk) as we’d love to see them!

Remember to go for a walk in the snow and have hot chocolate (if you can) and make those Snow Day memories.

For indoor learning

Maths we ask for you to please spend some time on Times Tables Rock Stars, to increase your speed and recall. Complete a few sound checks and prepare for to new weekly times table challenge we shall start next week! All we be revealed on Wednesday :)

Friday’s are usually our arithmetic days so please complete these questions on paper – remember to show your workings and show off your skills to your adults (they will be shocked at the calculations you are able to complete).

4827 + 3164 =
7632 − 2487 =
4002 − 1784 =
6²=
864 ÷ 4 =
972 ÷ 3 =
523 x 5 =
476 x 13 =
0.32 x 1000 =
54.8 ÷ 1000 =

As a part of our Literacy we have been looking at persuasive writing techniques, posters and leaflets. Our task has been linked to advertising the shops in Diagon Alley (Harry Potter) and trying to persuade people to shop there.

Can you produce a poster or a leaflet advertising Diagon Alley or one of the shops there?

Shops:

Madam Malkin’s Robes Gringotts Bank Flourish and Blotts

Ollivanders Wand Shop Eeylops Owl Emporium Apothecary

Quality Quidditch Supplies

Persuasive techniques:

Bold writing bullet points alliteration similes

Pictures emotive language facts opinions statistics

Rhetorical questions modal verbs personal address

You could do this on the computer or on paper. Remember, we would love to see it, so email it in, if completed online or bring it to school with you next week.

Spellings

As we were unable to hand out the homework for the spelling words, we will provide them here for you.

You could practise writing them over and over, pyramid writing, or create a colourful collage of all the words. We will still have our usual Friday spelling test on these next week.

Special Focus 1: Words that contain the letter -string ough

fought

ought

nought

bought

cough

trough

rough

tough

enough

Thorough

Please remember to stay safe and enjoy the snow in a sensible way.

We look forward to seeing you Monday, bright and early (6.45am) on Rock Road for our school trip 🙂

Stay safe,

The year 5 team

4 months ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2026 by Mr Jackson

Harry Potter Studios Trip on 12th December 2026

Harry Potter Studios Trip on 12^th December 2026

This is a gentle reminder that our school trip to Harry Potter studios is on Monday (12^th December 2026) Please see the following information and reminders:

Departure: The bus will be at the bus stop on Rock Road and not at school, so please bring your child here and stay with them until the adults arrive and allow them to enter the bus. Please note we will be getting on the bus at 6.45am and leaving at 7am. We will not be able to wait for children who are late due to entering the tour at our allotted time.
Travel sickness: If your child suffers from travel sickness, please give them a tablet prior to dropping them off at school. Should they require an additional tablet for the return journey, please inform us via your child’s reading diary. We will then provide you with a medication form, which needs to be returned to school, along with the tablet in its original packaging.
Lunch: Children need to bring a healthy packed lunch and drink with them (no sweets or chocolates as this can make children sick on long journeys). Please can lunches be in a small, empty backpack or in a plastic bag; children will need to go through security and carry their bags around with them all day. They will not need reading diaries or homework books.
Uniform: Children are to wear their school uniform, with comfortable trainers.
Gift Shop: There should be a small amount of time for children to visit the gift shop. Therefore, if you would like, your child can bring up to £15 spending money. Children will be responsible for looking after their own money all day which is why we have limited it to £15.

We will update you with an estimated time of arrival back at school via the website and social media. We hope for this to be by 5:45pm.

Thank you for your continued support.

4 months ago
Posted on 04th Jan 2026 by Mr Jackson

Year 5 P.E days for Spring 2026 updated

For Spring, Year 5 P.E is as follows:

Tuesday – Gymnastics indoor

Wednesday – Crossbar outdoor

The Year 5 Team.

7 months ago
Posted on 29th Sep 2025 by Mr Jackson

Friday 3rd October- Swimming -T-Shirt and jogger/shorts required for Mr Jackson’s class

Friday 3^rd October- Swimming -T-Shirt and jogger/shorts required for Mr Jackson’s class.

This Friday, as well as their normal swimming kit, please can your child bring a t-shirt and joggers/shorts in a plastic carrier bag. Part of this swimming session, children will be experiencing what it is like to be in water with clothes on (clothes over their swim wear).

Many Thanks

Mr Jackson

8 months ago
Posted on 12th Sep 2025 by Mr Jackson

Year 5 P.E Days

Hi Everyone

P.E days for Year 5 in Autumn are as follows:

Monday Outdoor

Friday Outdoor or Swimming

Mr Jackson’s class will be swimming for 5 weeks starting on 12/09/25 and Mrs Haymour’s class swimming for 5 weeks starting 17/10/25

I apologise this information wasn’t online prior to this point.

Mr Jackson

1 year ago
Posted on 29th Apr 2025 by Mr Jackson

Year 5 P.E

Year 5 P.E for this half term will be as follows:

Tuesday Outdoor

Wednesday Indoor

1 year ago
Posted on 01st Apr 2025 by Mr Jackson

Year 5 Nature Walk Friday 4th April

Year 5 will be going on a Nature Walk this Friday (4th). Please can children bring trainers to wear on the walk and ensure they have a water bottle.

1 year ago
Posted on 20th Nov 2024 by Mr Jackson

Year 5 Snow Day Activities

Year 5 – Snow day activities

Good morning everyone,

We hope you have a great day at home today and are able to spend some time outside playing safely in the snow! Please find below some tasks we would love you to have a go at between snow based activities.

These activities will all be live to you on google classroom shortly.

Literacy

Please complete the speech task on google classroom or in your homework books.

Maths

Iceberg Areas

Find the area of the icebergs. To find the area of a triangle multiply the height on the iceberg by the width and then divide by two!

Please also access TTRS. Remember there is the TTRS trophy up for grabs this week!

Science

Complete the task on google classroom or create your own friction experiment.

History Viking Research

Continuing the work we were doing in class yesterday, we would love to hear about any further research you can do on the Vikings. It could be more information about their travelling expeditions and how they travelled, or it could be about another part of the Vikings.

Snowmen and Snow Art Competition!

We would also like you to have a nice time outside enjoying the snowy weather! We would love to see who can build the biggest or most inventive snowman or snow sculpture! Alternatively, any ‘snow art’ you can produce would also be great to see.

We would also love to see your snowmen/snow sculptures by sending them to the email below.

newdale.year5team@taw.org.uk

You can add a comment to this post if you have any questions for us.

Mr Jackson and Mrs King

2 years ago
Posted on 03rd Sep 2024 by Mr Jackson

Year 5 P.E this half term

I hope you all had a wonderful first day in Year 5. As a reminder, please see the following information regarding P.E days this half term.

This Friday, both classes will have outdoor P.E. In weeks 2, 3 and 4, outdoor P.E will be on Thursday due to a Hockey coach coming in to teach the children.

From the second week, Mr Jackson’s class will have Swimming on a Friday and Mrs King’s class will have outdoor P.E on a Friday. We will send out information when this will swap over.

Kind regards

The Year 5 Team

PE kits	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7
Crossbar PE	Tuesday	Thursday	Thursday	Thursday	Tuesday	Tuesday	Tuesday
Friday PE	Both classes PE Kits	Mr Jackson’s—Swimming Mrs King’s —Outdoor athletics