Saffron

Welcome to Year 5 and Team Saffron 2025/26

Your teacher is Miss Summers

Your teaching assistants are Mrs Archer and Mrs Brewster

This week in maths, we have continued with our fractions unit. We have compared fractions using one half, mixed numbers and equivalent fractions. We have also completed part of another arithmetic test to revise our previous units on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. In English, we finished writing our ending to the story and worked hard to include all of the skills we have been taught as well as our suspenseful language. We have started our new unit on biographies using the class text 'Stone Girl Bone Girl'. We have learnt about what biographies are and thought about why they are written. We have learnt to take notes to gather ideas for the writing of our own biography next week.

This week we started our online safety unit in computing. We learnt about the SMART acronym as tips to keep us safe online. We then started to create a comic strip to explain one aspect of this. In PSHE, we have learnt about the difference between direct and indirect bullying and took part in some freeze frames to show our understanding of these terms. In RE, we recapped what we had learnt in the previous lesson about Yom Kippur. We then compared Judaism to Christianity and other world religions and discovered that forgiveness is something that they all had in common. In science, we learnt about some famous scientists and inventors and had a chance to research to learn further about different inventions. In French, we learnt about to use vocabulary to describe a quantity of food.

Next week in maths, we will be continuing with our fractions unit. We will be learning to add and subtract fractions, including mixed numbers and improper fractions. We will learn to use our knowledge of equivalent fractions to help us add and subtract fractions. In English, we will learn to plan ideas for writing a biography about Mary Anning by thinking about the audience and purpose before drafting a biography. We will think about how we can use relative clauses to add extra detail. We will finish the week by beginning to plan a biography on a different person that we will write the following week.

We have our history trip to the Chiltern Air Museum next week, which we are very much looking forward too. We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Saffron's PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday for swimming.

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
Rocked 5 times each week	Connie Elissa Ziggy
	Andreea Connie Elissa Ilinca Lola

Well done to our Weekly Award Winners

Isla

Jasper

Mason

Lola

Ella

Sajad

Woodrow

Elissa

Connie

Andreea

Toby

Keanu

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers

Ziggy

Jasper

Top 10 rockers

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

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Readers

Kleo

Lily

Connie

Andreea

Rishil

Elissa

Milie

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

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.