Saffron

Welcome to Year 5 and Team Saffron 2026/27

Your teacher is Mrs Burr

Your teaching assistants are Mrs Stretton, Miss Allwork, Mrs Wilkinson and Mrs Elson

Next week in Year 5, we have lots of exciting things planned.

In English, we are excited to start a new writing module based on the beautiful story, ‘The Promise’ by Nicola Davies and Laura Carlin. The children will explore the book, share their personal reactions, and analyse how narratives are structured. They will practise using figurative language and expanded noun phrases to write vivid setting descriptions that capture a contrasting mood. Ultimately, the children will write their own stories to entertain their peers, which will be shared with other classes across the school.

Next week in Mathematics, we will continue our work on positive and negative numbers by learning how to interpret them across a variety of real-life contexts. We will master how to calculate intervals between positive and negative values, helping them understand gaps and changes along the number line. We will also explore how negative numbers function on a coordinate grid, expanding our graphing skills into new quadrants. Finally, we will put all these pieces together by learning how to read and interpret data graphs that feature both positive and negative values.

In the wider curriculum, we have an exciting and busy week of learning ahead! Here is a quick look at what your children will be exploring in our upcoming lessons:

In History, we are diving back into the world of the Anglo-Saxons! The children will discover what daily village life was like and learn about Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and how place names still influence us today.
In Computing, we will be sharpening our tech and problem-solving skills by learning how to navigate and use databases.
In Religious Education (RE), we will be exploring the meaning of Yom Kippur, focusing on the important themes of reflection and forgiveness.

Next week Saffron's PE days will be Monday and Tuesday.

Highlights of the week

Week commencing 02.11.26

This week, the children worked hard in our PSHE lesson to think about their culture and make a culture wheel. They then shared this with each other to think about similarities and differences between their cultures. In science, we learnt about dissolving and investigated which substances would dissolve in water. Additionally, in English, we wrote phrases on strips of paper that we put together to make a collaborative cinquain poem about poppies.

Week commencing 19.10.26

This week the children really enjoyed our history trip where we learnt more about Anglo-Saxon life and practised being an archeologist. In PSHE, we worked as a group to build the biggest tower and reflected on what helps us to be successful in a group.

Week commencing 12.10.26

This week the children enjoyed practising their compositions in music using an ABA tertiary structure in pairs. In science, we had fun comparing and grouping materials based on their response to magnets.

Week commencing 05.10.26

This week the children have enjoyed starting to cook their vegetable muffins in DT and learning about thermal conductivity in our ice cube race in science.

Week commencing 28.09.26

This week we had a trampolining workshop, which the children thoroughly enjoyed! We also composed a piece using musical notes in music, which we then performed in the next lesson.

Week commencing 21.09.26

In computing this week, we learnt to create a title page and contents page for online quizzes. In DT, we tasted a variety of ingredients to help inform our design that we will complete for our vegetable muffins. As scientists we tested the electrical conductivity of objects of different materials in circuits.

Week commencing 14.09.26

In science this week, we practically explored the transparency of different materials using a torch. We used this to group the materials into whether they were transparent or opaque. In RE, we learnt about the Torah, looked at Judaism and Christianity artefacts and sorted facts about the Torah and Christianity.

Week commencing 11.09.26

In music, we played notes on the Glockenspiels and split the class into 3 parts with 2 parts playing a drone. In DT, we explored which fruits and vegetables are seasonal.