Adventurers, Rugby Players and Fossil Hunters – A Busy Week in Year 5

Mr Morrison • September 11, 2025

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Year 5 dive into reading, explore maths to a million, build rugby skills, and launch into new science and history topics.

  • Started reading The Explorer and explored character relationships.
  • Learned place value up to 1,000,000 in Maths.
  • Practised rugby skills and team games with Mr Marshall.
  • Began new topics: Dinosaurs & Fossils (History) and Life Cycles (Science).
  • Tested our knowledge with fun Blooket quizzes.

The second week in and Malala class have been busy, and we’ve had a fantastic week.


We started our new Destination Reader book, ‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell. The children have been intrigued by the opening chapters. We are keen to discover how Fred, Con, Lila and Max survive after their plane crash in the Amazon rainforest. As a class we have focussed on the characters personalities and relationships.


In Maths we have been looking at number and place value up to 1,000,000. We have considered how adding to different place value columns alters the overall value of the number, regrouping from one column to another.


The class really enjoyed learning Rugby skills with Mr Marshall. We practiced our throwing and catching the ball, as well as communicating with our team-mates without speaking. We saw whether we could pass the ball round the circle faster than one of the children could run around the circle. Then we played a team game where we had to try to pass the ball to each other, without it going out of play or the other team intercepting it. Finally, we finished off with a game of ‘Gladiators’ the children needed to run with the ball past their classmates right around the playground. It was great fun.


In History and Science, we started new topics: Dinosaurs and Fossils and Life Cycles respectively. The class considered what they already knew about these topics and we tested our prior knowledge by playing Blooket games. At the end of the topics we’ll monitor what we have learnt.



All in all a busy, tiring but very enjoyable week. We’re looking forward to lots more together.

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