Week 1

We’ve had a really busy and successful few days! We have been getting used to our new routines and have already started a number of our teaching units.
In maths we began our place value unit by learning about Roman numerals up to 1000.

In English, we have started our class book ‘The Man Who Walked Between the Towers’, a picture book written about French performer Philippe Petit who tightrope walked between the Twin Towers in 1974.

In Book Talk, we have a running theme of New York. We have read and talked about the first 3 chapters of ‘The Good Thieves’, a heist novel about a group of children who will do anything to right a wrong

In PSHE, we discussed our targets; challenges to achieving them and steps for how to achieve them.

In history this afternoon we started our work on crime and punishment, learning about the legacy the Romans left on our crime and punishment system today.

In PE, we tried out Parkour. A new exciting unit that the children really enjoyed. This will be our ‘rainy day’ unit alongside tag rugby and netball this half term.

Miss Beauchamp will be in year 5 every Monday & then myself for the rest of the week.

Enjoy your weekend!

Welcome Back!

Happy New School Year!

I’m looking forward to tomorrow and have lots planned which I hope you’ll enjoy.

Pencil cases are welcome in school this week as we’ll be doing some art activities.

Our PE days this term will be TUESDAY and THURSDAY, starting this Thursday.

See you all tomorrow!

Fletcher’s Two Peak Challenge

On Saturday 5th July Fletcherwill be setting off on an epic 2 Peak Challenge  to raise funds for new playground equipment. Please use the QR code to find his Just Giving page. 

“I would like to raise money to go towards the school playground as alot of the equipment has recently been removed due to its age and Friends charity is trying to raise funds to replace it.

I have enjoyed my time at Baschurch and playing outside with all my friends and I want to give something back to show my appreciation and allow other children to carry on enjoying what we had.

Please sponsor me, I am doing my hike on Saturday 5th July.”

Tag Rugby North Shropshire Champions!

After coming 1st and 2nd in the Baschurch Area event earlier this year, our 2 teams travelled to Oswestry Rugby Club this morning for the North Shropshire Finals.

Both teams performed admirably with one of them winning and qualifying for School Games Finals Day, where they will look to come away victorious for the 2nd year in a row.

Well done to all children involved!

Year 5 Weekly Schedule

This week 9th -14th we have had a full on week. I am writing this to keep you updated on our weekly schedule.

  • Maths: this week in maths we have been doing percentages, decimals and fractions. We finished that unit at the end of the week. everyone has been working hard to finish the unit. Next week we will be doing perimeter and area.
  • P.E: This week in P.E we have been doing athletics and tennis. Last week some of our children were invited to cross country. Year five girls had a second place, third place, fourth, fifth and sixth. Isla Lewis was the highest girl in second with Flo closely following in third. We have been running miles and studying various paces for other distances.

Written by Isla L

Y5 weekly schedule

I will be giving you a little review of most of the subjects that we have been learning about in class 5 :

English: At the start of the week on the 9th of March 2025 we stared writing our mystery story’s following the book Lizzie and Belle Mysteries. Some of us are writing our own version of book 1 and some of us are making up a book 2, where we continued from a cliff hanging ending from book 1.

Maths: We have been doing decimals, fractions and percentages all in 1. We have just ended this unit and about to move on to a different one which is Area and Perimeter which is all to do with measuring.

Science: In science we are doing the topic living things and their habitats which at the moment we are doing about Mammals.

P.E: In P.E we are doing athletics and learning how to maintain a pace in a certain amount of time with Mr McGrath.  We have a been doing tennis with El. Lots of us went to Cross Country at The Corbet last week,  I came 3rd in my race!

Thank You,

Florence Avery

Year 5

Y5 news by CGM

Year 5 have been learning loads this term, find out what we have been doing!

In guided reading, we have been reading a series of unfortunate events a book about three children who go through bad times but they can make it through together as a team.

English: Year 5 have been reading a book called the Lizzie and Belle Mysteries now we are writing the second book from scratch.

by Cerys Mayle.

Y5#LESSON TIME

Maths: We have been learning percentage, decimals and fractions, we have been figuring out fractions of amounts.

English: We are currently working on our own mystery stories based around the style of J.T Williams, the author of The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries. We designed front covers and blurbs that had a matching style. We have finished our first draft and our moving onto our final one which will be entering a Baschurch school competition.

WRITTEN BY BELLE.D Y5

Geography

In geography we have been learning about compass points and coordinates and how they can direct you somewhere. The eight compass is a compass made up of eight points- north, south, east, west, north east, north west, south east and south west. Coordinates and grid references help you find somewhere on a map easily if you look on the sides. We have been giving directions on a made up map to different places, then were given a map of shrewsbury and had to try and find different places. We also looked at an atlas and found the grid references and coordinates of different countries, as well as their capitals.

Written by Lily