Year 5: Gallery
Date: 22nd Oct 2026 @ 4:37pm
We have been learning about William Morris in our art lessons and critiquing his designs. We then used his designs as inspiration to create our own flower to print.
Date: 22nd Oct 2026 @ 4:25pm
This week we looked at the justice system during Anglo-Saxon and Viking times. In class, we used role-play to share a scenario that might have taken place in those times. As a class, we had to decide if the accused was guilty or not.
Date: 22nd Oct 2026 @ 4:23pm
Well done to Benji who won our Where's Wally? books in our end of term reading raffle.
We will be starting a new raffle the first week back.
Cereal Domino Foodbank Collection
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 2:38pm
We held our annual Foodbank collection again this year and set up our cereal domino train in the hall. This year everyone joined in together and we managed to collect 155 cereal boxes to donate!
Thank you to everyone who brought some boxes in the last few weeks.
Years 5 & 6 Peer Mediation Training
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 8:07am
We completed our peer mediator training this week. The peer mediators are all excited to get started.
Year 5 & 6 Mental Health Wellbeing Day
Date: 13th Oct 2026 @ 4:42pm
Today, we went to the community centre and took part in various activities including slime making, making clay models and calming strategies.
Years 5 and 6 World Museum Trip
Date: 8th Oct 2026 @ 2:59pm
We had a fantastic time at the World Museum in Liverpool. We learnt about the Apollo missions to the Moon in the planetarium and even got to see some real space food! We also looked around the rest of the museum and saw artefacts from Ancient Egypt and explored the dinosaur floor.
Date: 5th Oct 2026 @ 2:50pm
Some of the children from St Basil's enjoyed a visit from the Book Bus today! They took back books we had borrowed in the past and exchanged them for new books they wanted to read! Thank you to ELS Cheshire for visiting us!
CAFOD Family Fast Day Simple lunch 2nd October 2026
Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 4:29pm
A group of twenty children from Key Stage 2 participated in a special 'simple lunch' today.
The children wanted to show solidarity with others around the world who are less fortunate.
They sacrificed their usual dinner for a simple meal of soup, bread, salad and fruit.
We are so proud of the maturity that they showed in making this decision and for taking part.
Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 12:33pm
We revised our knowledge of place value and consolidated our learning for rounding numbers today with our active maths lesson. We had to make 6 digit numbers then round then. We also had to find our number on a big number line.
Date: 30th Sep 2026 @ 12:59pm
Today we used an illustrated map to help us to plan out Annie's journey along the water towards Niagara Falls. We had to think about how we could use fronted adverbials, rhetorical questions and exclamations to explain her feelings.
Date: 29th Sep 2026 @ 4:53pm
We enjoy reading in our 'reading retreat' area.
Date: 29th Sep 2026 @ 4:50pm
Our clarinet lesson. Here we are learning to play 'Spanish Sunset'.
Date: 24th Sep 2026 @ 11:35am
We worked with partners to solve non-routine problems in maths. We had to sort the given numbers to show which were the largest. The sum of our answer was our score. The challenge was to arrange the numbers to make the highest score that we could.
Date: 23rd Sep 2026 @ 3:11pm
Today, we learnt about the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur in our whole school assembly. We learnt that during Yom Kippur Jewish people wear white and think about asking God for forgiveness. They also pray five special prayers during that special day.
Y5 Salt Dough Ten Commandments
Date: 23rd Sep 2026 @ 2:28pm
In RE today, we discussed The Ten Commandments and explained which one we thought was the most important one. We then made stone tablets using salt dough and wrote the commandment we thought was most important on it.
Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 4:08pm
We took part in Active Maths for our lesson to consolidate our understanding of numbers up to 1,000,000. We had to find partitioned numbers that were hid around the playground. Once we had found then, we had to work together to work out what the six-digit number was and read it. The first team to find it and work it out got a point and the team to find the most numbers first got 5 dojos each! We then made up a little tune to help us to remember what place value means.
Y5 Celebration of the Word: Creation
Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 3:50pm
Some Year 5 pupils planned a Celebration of the Word around the theme of Creation. They decided to use the song "All Things Bright and Beautiful".
Date: 14th Sep 2026 @ 5:14pm
Today we worked in groups to create a heliocentric model of the solar system. We learned about how and when this model was discovered.
Date: 6th Mar 2026 @ 9:09am
Our World Book Day celebrations and reading hour with parents
Date: 26th Feb 2026 @ 9:15am
We were visited by Altru Drama to see their Online Safety show 'The tangled Web'
Date: 6th Feb 2026 @ 9:32am
Year 5 had a visit from the Fire Brigade. The children learned about what to do if there was a fire in the home. As well as this, the children all had a go in the smoke tent!
Date: 19th Nov 2025 @ 12:01pm
Today the children used blocks to create cube numbers. They have built on their previous knowledge from the day before about square numbers to support them.
Date: 17th Nov 2025 @ 3:36pm
We learnt about road safety in today's assembly and the importance of keeping safe on and around roads.
