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 English, we will began our new Narrative unit and read the book, ‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’. We started by giving our personal responses to the book and then we wrote sentences, based on the story, with expanded noun phrases and relative clauses. We also re-ordered the clauses in sentences to add variety to our writing, to keep the reader engaged. In Maths, we revisited converting between units of measure (for example litres to millilitres, kilometres to metres and kilograms to grams) and then solved a range of word problems involving measure.

In RE this week, we learnt what the wide roles and responsibilities of a Christian leader are and what personal qualities they must have in order to do their job as somebody in a position of authority. In Geography, we learnt some of the key features of rivers, including the source at the start of the river and the mouth at the end of the river. In PSHE, we continued to discuss the positives and negatives of online communities and we discussed what we should do if we ever feel concerned about anything we see online or uncomfortable about messages received. In Art, we used different mediums (e.g pastel, pencil, water colours and paper) to create a picture in the style of Wassily Kandinsky. In Computing, we continued to work on our games, adding another level of difficulty by adding more obstacles and ’enemies’ that hunt the player. In French, we learnt how to use some language to compare planets (e.g. bigger, smaller, hotter, colder) and in Science, we found out what evidence there is to prove that the planet Earth is spherical and not flat.

Next week in English, we will continue our work using the book ‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’ and write some descriptive sentences using some expanded noun phrases. We will also use a range of fronted adverbials to give more detail for the reader and we will consider how some characters feel and what they might say at certain points in the story. In Maths next week, we will be solving problems involving scaling by either multiplying or dividing numbers. We will also look at word problems involving fractions and percentages.

Have a great extra long weekend!

This term, Saffron's PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday.

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	Ilinca Lola Ziggy Mason Kleo
Rocked 5 times each week	Connie Elissa Ziggy	Jasper Ziggy	Jasper	Jasper
	Andreea Connie Elissa Ilinca Lola	Andreea Connie Elissa Jack C Rishil Jasper	Connie Elissa Jasper Ziggy	Connie Elissa Jasper

Well done to our Weekly Award Winners

Lily

Abdullah

Jax

Imogen

Lucy

Jack C

Keanu

Andreea

Imogen

Keanu

Isla

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers

Connie

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

Lola

Lily

Kleo

Abdullah

Andreea

Connie

Elissa

Ella

Jack C

Jasper

Keanu

Rishil

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

Art 01.05.26

We had a lovely art lesson where the children were recreating Kandinsky's concentric circles using 4 different mediums.

Computing 22.4.26

We had a lovely computing lesson where everyone got involved in designing the background for their own game.

DT 13.04.26

The children had fun finishing off decorating their Viking Houses.

English 24.03.26 & 25.03.26

This week the children did a fantastic job at performing the poems they wrote to inspire year 4 or year 6 children following learning about Karl Nova and his poetry. They used assonance really well and were very brave to perform in front of the class.

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.