Saffron

Welcome to Year 5 and Team Saffron 2025/26

Your teacher is Miss Summers

Your teaching assistants are Mrs Archer and Mrs Brewster

The children have had another busy and successful week!

This week in maths, we have recapped the properties of different angles before comparing and ordering them. We have learnt how to measure angles accurately using a protractor, learnt how to draw angles using a protractor, and learnt how to find missing angles. We also completed some reasoning practise questions to keep working on our mathematical reasoning skills. In English, the children finished their non-chronological reports, and then we began our new poetry unit. We have learnt about assonance and spent time finding the patterns of assonance in poems by Karl Nova.

In DT, we have continued to build our Viking Houses using glue guns to build the walls using lolly pop sticks. In PSHE, we looked at the different attitudes people have to food and how these can be affected by external influence, including adverts about foods. We then created a recipe for a healthy body image and thought about everything we had learnt so far in this unit to help us.

In RE, we compared the Easter Story to the Jewish Passover festival using what we had learnt in our previous lessons and identified similarities and differences. In History, we learnt about the last Anglo-Saxon kings, Edward the Confessor and Harold II, and the events that led to the Battle of Hastings and the end of Anglo-Saxon rule in Britain. We learnt that this was the beginning of Norman rule in Britain as William the Conqueror became king. In computing, we learnt about database queries and used a database to consider what query may have been asked to produce that specific data.

Next week in maths we will be recapping short multiplication, long multiplication and division before applying these methods to 4-digit numbers. We will also be applying these methods to help us solve some problems. In English, we will continue with our poetry unit where we will be working with our learning partner to create a poem that is aimed at inspiring other young people to be resilient and determined. We will then have the opportunity to perform these poems to the class.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Saffron's PE days for next week are Monday and Thursday.

Well done to our Half-termly Award Winners

	Autumn 1:	Autumn 2:	Spring 1:	Spring 2:	Summer 1:	Summer 2:
	Abdullah Connie Elissa Jax Fatimah	Millie Woodrow Ruby Toby Lily	Tyler Kleo Ella Jack C Rishil
Rocked 5 times each week	Connie Elissa Ziggy	Jasper Ziggy	Jasper
	Andreea Connie Elissa Ilinca Lola	Andreea Connie Elissa Jack C Rishil Jasper	Connie Elissa Jasper Ziggy

Well done to our Weekly Award Winners

Imogen

Jack K

Isla

Ziggy

Toby

Connie

Lily

Jasper

Elissa

Woodrow

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers

Ziggy

Connie

Elissa

Jasper

Top 10 rockers

1)Fatimah 2) Ziggy 3)Tyler 4)Elissa 5)Darius 6)Connie 7)Jasper 8)Lily 9)Jack 10)Toby

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Readers

Lily

Kleo

Tyler

Elissa

Connie

Rishil

Jack C

Jasper

Web links that you may find helpful

www.bbc.co.uk/history
BBC Bitesize - KS2 Science
BBC Bitesize - Dance Mat Typing Build speed of typing in a fun and challenging way
CBBC - Newsround An engaging news based website.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z82hsbk/year/zmyxxyc BBC
Books To Make You Feel Better..pdf

Documents you may find useful

Highlight of the Week

DT 18.03.26

Everyone worked really hard in DT today to finish off their Viking Houses. Well done!

Science week 12.03.26

This week was science week and the children had a lot of fun completing their investigation to see if they could make a raft that floats. They then had a challenge to see which raft could hold the most multi-link cubes. They needed to use teamwork.

World Book Day 05.03.26

It was so lovely to see all the children's outfits on World Book Day. We had a very busy and fun day. We joined an online live 'books and football' based quiz, had our world book day assembly, designed our own book covers, completed some book reviews and had a lovely time at 'books and blankets'.

DT w.c. 23.02.26

This week and during the last week of half-term the children cooked their vegetable muffins with Mrs Pyke. They all worked very hard and I do hope they enjoyed the finished product at home!

DT 10.02.26

The children enjoyed tasting some ingredients ahead of making their vegetable muffins. We thought about the smell and texture as well. It was lovely to see children trying some new things!

Art 06.02.2026

This afternoon, we created our final pieces inspired by Daniel Mackie. The children's work was so impressive!

Maths 26.01.2026

Today we learnt about using squares to estimate area and compared the area of one of our feet and one of our hands to see which had the greatest area. The children showed great determination with this!

Young Voices

We are incredibly proud of the members of our team and the rest of the school who attended the Young Voices this week. You all did so amazingly well!

PSHE 21.01.2026

In PSHE this week, we thought about the importance of different jobs and learnt about the salaries for these jobs. We did well at working together during our activities.

Science 14.01.2026

This week in science, we learnt about gravity and learnt about the difference between mass and weight. The children enjoyed weighing different items from the classroom using Newton Metres. Well done Team!

Art 09.01.2026

It has been a lovely week back finished by an art lesson where we were learning about our artist for the unit Daniel Mackie, thinking about his work and what we like about it and then comparing it to another artist's work.

Science lesson 16.12.25

In science, we learnt about irreversible changes. The children observed what happens when baking powder is added to vinegar and then saw that carbon dioxide is used as Miss Summers used the gas created as a fire extinguisher to put out some tea light flames.

Chiltern Air Museum 11.12.25

The children were absolutely fantastic on the trip. They enjoyed an archeology workshop in the morning and then a workshop on the life of an anglo-saxon in the afternoon. What an amazing day! Our Elf Edith even made her way with us.

Science 05.12.25

The children worked hard in science this afternoon, researching different scientists in order to learn about what they invented. We thought about the impact scientists have on the world.

Computing workshop 25.11.25

The children listened really well and worked really hard in our computing workshop today. They programmed a microbit and tested to see if their programming had worked.

Art 21.11.25

In art, we designed some Anglo-Saxon-inspired jewellery which we will make using embossing before the Christmas break. The children worked hard to think of different designs.

Science and Cool to be Kind Week - 10.11.25

In science, we investigated which material would insulate a container the best. We discussed how to make it a fair test and recorded our results over time. Whilst waiting for the results, we started off Cool to be Kind week by the children sharing 5 compliments with their learning partners. We talked about how good it feels when someone is kind. I am looking forward to seeing how the children continue to show kindness throughout the week.

History - 07.11.25

The children explored clues about an Anglo-Saxon Discovery - Sutton Hoo - to think about who may have been buried there.

Resilience workshop - 22.10.25

We had a resilience workshop today where we learnt about what resilience is and talked about strategies to help us to manage big emotions. One of the strategies we practised was finger breathing. The children listened and contributed really well.