Sapphire

Sapphire 2024-25

Welcome to Year 5 and Team Sapphire

Your teacher is Ms Ellis

Your teaching assistants are Mrs Stretton and

Miss Rogers

This week we have started our poetry unit in English. We have created a poem about a setting using a variety of expanded noun phrases. We watched a very tense video from a David Attenborough clip about an iguana making a dash to safety across sand and up a rock face whilst being chased by snakes. We were all very relieved when the iguana made it to safety! We are going to use this as an inspiration for writing another poem. Next week we will be continuing our poetry unit.

In Maths, we began by looking at flight times and how to find the difference in the journeys. We have also been looking at different line graphs and how to read them. We have worked out the intervals that are being represented on them and how to find readings in between them. Next week, we will be revisiting a variety of different areas, including telling the time on analogue clocks and word problems using the four operations.

In our curriculum areas, we looked at the dangers mountainous areas can have and how they can be managed. We finished our paintings on Kandinsky using different media of paper, chalk pastels or water colours. In science, we compared the lifecycles of mammals and birds to see how there were similarities and differences.

The week has thrown a curve ball of the weather into the mix, the children have coped very well. Please make sure they bring hats in for break times.

PE days are Monday and Wednesday each week.