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 started by estimating the area of irregular shapes using squared paper and then we calculated the area of rectangles using a formula. Once we had mastered that skill, we then calculated the area of compound shapes. In English, we continued our Narrative unit inspired by The Promise and we described settings using some figurative language. We then explored the thoughts, feelings and motives of the main character and used this to help us write a character description of her.

In Science this week we learnt all about the force of air resistance. We then had great fun exploring if we could use air resistance to our advantage (using some parachutes) to slow down the fall of an egg to prevent it from cracking! In RE, we learnt about how Jewish people remember the importance of Moses by celebrating the Passover festival. In PSHE we compared our dreams and goals to children from a different culture and we thought about if it makes a difference where you are from to what your dreams might be. In Art we used watercolour paints to create tone and in Computing we used spreadsheets to create formulae to calculate area and perimeter.

Next week in Maths we will be learning how to show volume using multi-cubes and then how to calculate volume. In English, we will be planning our own story based on The Promise and then we will be writing it, using a range of figurative language.

Have a great weekend!

Saffron's PE days this term 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
Rocked 5 times each week	Connie Elissa Ziggy	Jasper Ziggy
	Andreea Connie Elissa Ilinca Lola	Andreea Connie Elissa Jack C Rishil Jasper

Well done to our Weekly Award Winners

Lola

Elissa

Woodrow

Ella

Ruby

Mason

Isla

Darius

Jack K

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers

Ziggy (x6)

Connie

Elissa

Jasper

Top 10 rockers

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

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Readers

Kleo

Tyler

Ariyah

Lily

Millie

Imogen

Ruby

Sajad

Jasper

Ziggy

Andreea

Connie

Elissa

Fatimah

Ilinca

Ella

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

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.