Sapphire

Welcome to Year 5 and Team Sapphire 2025/26

Your teacher is Ms Ellis

Your teaching assistants are Miss Allwork, Miss Blackwell and Miss Green.

This week in Maths, we learnt how to calculate squared numbers and cubed numbers. We also explored building cubes using multi-cubes and then learnt how to calculate volume. In English, we planned our own entertaining story based on ‘The Promise’ and then started to write it, using a range of figurative language, fronted adverbials and relative clauses. We also used dialogue to help show the characterisation.

In RE this week, we compared the lives of Esther and Moses and looked for similarities and differences between the stories of these important people. In PSHE, we discussed how our lives are influenced by other cultures and thought about events we could plan in order to raise money for charity. In Art, we sketched features that would be found in the habitats of our chosen animal and then sketched our animal again in preparation for our final piece of artwork inspired by Daniel Mackie. In French, we investigated climate data and discussed the climate of different countries by using words which compare. We also asked questions about different countries, like: what is the climate like? What is the population? What is there to visit?

Next week in English, we will finish our story writing, then we will edit and publish our work. In Maths, we will be learning about percentages and we will express percentages as fractions and decimals.

Have a great weekend!

Sapphire's PE days this term are Monday and Thursday.

Adam & Zachary

Ariaana & Zia

Charlotte & Emilia M

Osman & Hussnain

Dolly-Rose

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers

Noori

Amalia

Top Ten Rockers

Ariaana

Noori

Amalia

Isabella

Isla

Olivia

Dolly-Rose

Carter

Henry

Freya

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Readers

Mason

Carter

Adam

Olivia

Amalia

Theo

Emilia

Niamh

Charlotte

Freya

Oscar

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 (Wb 02.02.25)

In maths this week, we used multilink cubes to build cubed numbers. Well done to all the Achievement certificate winners for this week!

Highlight of the Week (Wb 26.01.26)

This week in Art we created tone using watercolours.

Highlight of the Week (12.01.26)

In PE this week, we had great fun learning some trampolining skills. We also really enjoyed playing some of the winning Maths games from the Christmas Maths Challenge. In Science, we used force meters to measure the weight of objects and in Art we used some cross hatching skills to create tone.

Highlights of the Week (06.01.26)

Congratulations to our weekly certificate winners.

Highllights of the Week (Wb 19.12.25)

This week in Art we had great fun making our Anglo Saxon jewellery, using embossing techniques.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 08.12.25)

This week, we had great fun on our trip to the Chiltern Open Air Museum to learn about Anglo Saxon village life and we used our history skills to learn about the past in an archaeological dig too!

Highlights of the Week (24.11.25)

This week in Computing we had a computer workshop. The children became computer programmers, coding to keep a diamond (kept in a vault) safe from would-be thieves!

Highlights of the week (Wb 17.11.25)

This week in Science, we investigated which material was the best insulator to keep a cup of water warm for the longest period.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 10.11.25)

This week in Maths, we have been learning how to use the bus stop method of division. To start with, we used counters to help us understand the process.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 04.11.25)

Well done to our Achievement Certificate winners for this week. In RE this week, we were learning about the importance of looking for the good in our lives and being thankful for the things we have.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 20.10.25)

This week, in Science we investigated the properties of different materials. We tested for magnetism, permeability, hardness, flexibility and if the materials were transparent.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 13.10.25)

This week, for PSHE we had a workshop about well-being and we learnt some strategies for how to be resilient. In PE, we competed in the Cross Country event at Adeyfield School. There were some amazing runners and a really supportive team cheering them on.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 06.10.25)

In PSHE this week, we worked as a team to build the tallest tower possible using only paper and sellotape. We had to listen to each other, share ideas, cooperate and encourage each other.