Sapphire

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.

It has been another busy week and the children did so well in the Catapult workshop.

This week in English we have written up our balanced discussion about whether tourism on mountains should be banned using formal writing. The children worked hard to back up their arguments using evidence. In maths, we have learnt about how we can use 2D representations to identify 3D shapes, we learnt how to classify 2D shapes as regular or irregular, we used key vocabulary, such as parallel, polygons, perpendicular, to describe 2D shapes, and we used perimeter and area to work out missing lengths on rectangles.

In PSHE, we have learnt about how a girl's body changes with puberty, including how to manage periods. The children had time to ask any questions they had and they were all very mature during the session. In RE, the children have researched different religion’s creation stories. They will share their research with each other in our lesson next week so that they can compare the creation story from multiple religions. The children also worked hard on their final Kandinsky-inspired pieces in Art. They produced lovely abstract pieces using shape, lines and colour. In French, the children learnt the names for different family members.

Next week is sports week so we look forward to the children engaging some additional sport activities. Around this, in maths we will be recapping how to find missing angles on a line and how to draw and measure angles accurately with a protractor. In English, we will start on our new advertisement unit and look at some of the persuasive features used within advertising.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

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

Zachary & Isla N

Isla T & Amelia V

Joseph & Oscar

Theo & Emilia

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers

Ariaana

Amalia

Adam

Zachary

Top Ten Rockers

Ariaana

Noori

Amalia

Isabella

Isla

Olivia

Dolly-Rose

Carter

Henry

Freya

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Readers

Adam

Hussnain

Ariaana

Oscar

Niamh

Maya

Charlotte

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

Geography Summer Term Optional Home Learning.docx

DOCX File

Highlights of the Week (Wb 15.06.26)

In DT this week, Year 5 enjoyed a catapult workshop where they made mini catapults with lollipop sticks and a big catapult using knex equipment. They did a great job working as a team to problem solve to get their catapults to fire a ping-pong ball across the room!

Highlights of the Week (Wb 08.06.26)

In Geography this week, we used atlases to locate mountains around the world and find out how tall they are. In Art, we continued to work on our Kandinsky-inspired abstract pictures.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 02.06.26)

Sapphire had great fun doing PE in the hall this week, playing dodgeball. In Art, we started on a new piece of artwork, inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, using shape, lines and colour. Congratulations to Noori on her music exam!

Highlights of the Week (Curriculum Week)

We had great fun in Curriculum Week this week.

Highlights of the Week (Wb11.05.26)

Highlights of the Week (Wb 05.05.26)

In Computing this week, we finished creating our games on 2DIY3D. Congratulations to the Achievement certificate winners for this week!

Highlights of the Week (Wb 01.05.26)

This week in Art, we started to create a concentric circles picture, using different mediums, in the style of Wassily Kandinsky. Congratulations to the Achievement certificate winners for this week.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 21.04.26)

This week in Computing, we started to make our games. In DT, we finished painting our Viking houses and evaluated them. Congratulations to the certificate winners for this week!

Highlights of the Week (Wb 13.04.26)

This week, Sapphire started learning to play the cornets in Music.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 23.03.26)

Congratulations to the weekly Achievement winners!

Highlights of the Week (Wb 16.03.26)

This week in DT, we used the glue guns to attach the wood together to construct the Viking houses.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 09.03.23)

Congratulations to the achievement certificate winners for this week. For Science week, we explored making a boat out of paper that could hold as much weight as possible without sinking. We knew that a larger surface area would be needed for the force of upthrust to push against. In DT this week, we started to measure and saw the wood that we need to make the structure of a Viking house.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 02.03.26)

In DT this week, everyone baked some amazing savoury muffins.

Highllights of the Week (Wb 23.02.26)

In DT this week we designed our Viking houses.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 13.02.26)

In Art this week, we used water colours to create some fantastic pictures in the style of Daniel Mackie. In Science, we investigated water resistance by dropping some bluetac of different shapes into the water to see if the shape affected how quickly it sunk through the water.

Highlight of the Week (Wb 02.02.25)

In maths this week, we used multilink cubes to build cubed numbers. Well done to all the Achievement certificate winners for this week!

Highlight of the Week (Wb 26.01.26)

This week in Art we created tone using watercolours.

Highlight of the Week (12.01.26)

In PE this week, we had great fun learning some trampolining skills. We also really enjoyed playing some of the winning Maths games from the Christmas Maths Challenge. In Science, we used force meters to measure the weight of objects and in Art we used some cross hatching skills to create tone.

Highlights of the Week (06.01.26)

Congratulations to our weekly certificate winners.

Highllights of the Week (Wb 19.12.25)

This week in Art we had great fun making our Anglo Saxon jewellery, using embossing techniques.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 08.12.25)

This week, we had great fun on our trip to the Chiltern Open Air Museum to learn about Anglo Saxon village life and we used our history skills to learn about the past in an archaeological dig too!

Highlights of the Week (24.11.25)

This week in Computing we had a computer workshop. The children became computer programmers, coding to keep a diamond (kept in a vault) safe from would-be thieves!

Highlights of the week (Wb 17.11.25)

This week in Science, we investigated which material was the best insulator to keep a cup of water warm for the longest period.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 10.11.25)

This week in Maths, we have been learning how to use the bus stop method of division. To start with, we used counters to help us understand the process.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 04.11.25)

Well done to our Achievement Certificate winners for this week. In RE this week, we were learning about the importance of looking for the good in our lives and being thankful for the things we have.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 20.10.25)

This week, in Science we investigated the properties of different materials. We tested for magnetism, permeability, hardness, flexibility and if the materials were transparent.

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.