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 English we wrote our own story, ‘The Elephants in the Walls’. We used a range of conjunctions, some fronted adverbials as well as relative clauses and some dialogue. In Maths, we will be revised using formal addition and subtraction skills and will added and subtracted large numbers and decimal numbers.

 

In RE this week, we learnt about the key features of synagogues and in PSHE, we learnt about well-being and looked at ways we can manage our well-being and build resilience. In Computing, we used Coding to create a football related game and in History, we discovered what life in an Anglo Saxon village was like and what sort of jobs they did back then. In PE this week, we practised our long distance running, in preparation for the cross country event at Adeyfield School.

 

Next week in English, we will start our Mystery and Suspense Unit and will read the book, ‘The Watertower’. We will explore how authors create suspense and we will write from a character’s point of view in a diary entry. In Maths, we will be solving addition and subtraction problems relating to the formal column method.

Have a great weekend!

 

 

Sapphire's PE days for this half term are Tuesday and swimming on Wednesday.

 

               Well done to our Weekly Award Winners

Niamh & Isla T

Osman & Mason

Noori & Hussnain

Olivia & Dolly-Rose

Noori

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers 

x7 Ariaana

X5 Noori Amalia Isabella Carter

Top Ten Rockers 1. Noori 2. Amalia 3. Dolly-Rose 4. Carter 5. Isabella 6. Freya 7. Henry 8. Olivia 9. Maya 10. Zia

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Readers

Amalia Carter Mason Adam

Maya Ariaana Dolly-Rose Oscar Niamh Olivia Charlotte Freya Zachary Fred

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/zmyxxycBBC
• Books To Make You Feel Better..pdf

Documents you may find useful

• key-word-spelling-lists.docx
• Spelling Lists - All Year Groups.pdf
• Grammatical Terminology Prompt.pdf

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.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 29.09.25)

In PE this week, Sapphire had great fun learning some tag rugby skills. 

Highlight of the Week (Wb 22.09.25)

In Science this week, we investigated if the temperature of the water affected how quickly the salt dissolved.

Highlight of the Week (Wb 15.09.25)

This week, we had great fun in Computing, coding instructions for a game.