Saffron

Welcome to Year 5 and Team Saffron 2026/27

Your teacher is Mrs Burr (previously Miss Summers)

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

Next week in year five…

We have lots of exciting things planned for next week.

Next week in English, our journey into the world of mythical and legendary creatures continues! We will be writing an engaging non-chronological report about the unique, mythical beasts that we have created. Throughout the week, we will explore our monster's physical appearance, its hidden habitat, its unusual diet, and any legendary sightings recorded by brave explorers. To make our writing stand out, we will focus on using relative clauses, which add extra details using words like who, which or that, alongside powerful vocabulary. We will also add a wide range of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions to connect our ideas and vary our sentence structures for maximum impact.

Next week in maths, our learning will focus on mastering decimals, starting with how to round decimal numbers with tenths to the nearest whole number. We will then explore smaller fractional parts by learning to identify hundredths as part of a whole. We will discover how to describe and represent hundredths as a decimal fraction, before practising how to describe and write decimal numbers with hundredths in different ways. Finally, the children will bring all these skills together as they learn to compare and order decimal numbers with hundredths.

In our upcoming curriculum lessons, we are going to be very busy. In Design and Technology (DT), we will be tasting a variety of foods to gather inspiration and ideas for our own unique muffin recipes. Our Religious Education (RE) lessons will focus on exploring the Ten Commandments and unpacking exactly what they mean for believers. Meanwhile, in Computing, we are going to get creative by writing our own quizzes while developing our technical skills as we learn how to design and add title and content screens.

Highlights of the week

Week commencing 14.09.2026

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.