Sapphire

Sapphire 2024-25

Welcome to Year 5 and Team Sapphire

Your teacher is Ms Ellis

Your teaching assistants are Mrs Stretton and Mrs Rogers

What a busy half term we’ve had!

In Science this half term, we have continued to learn about forces and investigated friction and mechanisms such as gears, levers and pulleys. In RE, we learnt about the importance of Lent to Christian followers and how fasting is observed across different religions. We also learnt about the Easter story and the traditions and symbols related to the story before comparing the festivals of Passover and Easter.

In History we found out some fascinating facts about the Vikings and the last Anglo-Saxon kings including Alfred the Great, Ethlered II The Unready, Edward the Confessor and King Harold, culminating with the Battle of Hastings.

In PSHE, we learnt about how to stay healthy. We found out how smoking and drinking alcohol can affect our bodies and we learnt how to help in an emergency situation by placing someone, who is unconscious, into the recovery position. In DT, we had fun designing and making our Viking houses.

Throughout the half term, we also enjoyed Book Day and Science Week.

Next term in Science, we will be learning all about Space. We will learn about the movement of planets in relation to the sun, we will learn why and how we know that Earth is spherical, we will explore how we get night and day and find out why the sun appears to move across the sky. In Geography we will be learning about Enchanting Earth. We will learn about features of rivers and mountains, different types of volcanoes and explore how volcanoes and earthquakes affect human settlements. In Art, we will be looking at the artist Kandinsky and how we can stay safe when online in PSHE.

Well done Team Sapphire; have a well earned break!

PE days for Sapphire for Spring 1 are Monday and Tuesday.

Congratulations to the half-termly Values winners:

Skyla, Eleanor, Ashnee, Kayden, Yusuf


Georgia & Eveleen	Mia & Aksh	Kayden & Ben	Marc & Zoe	Kayden

Top Ten Rockers

Rocking 7 times:

Rocking 5+ times:

Georgia
Tilly
Zoe
Kayden
Harry
Lucas
Aisha
Ashnee
Skyla
Vincent

Harry

Lucas
Lily-May
Olivia

Adam
Zoe
Georgia
Lucas
Tilly
Eleanor
Mia
Harry
Kayden
Ashnee
Hitesh

Samuel
James
Eveleen
Vinny

Key Spelling Lists Yr 3&4 and 5&6

Key Word Spelling Lists.docx

Highlights of Week (Wb 31.03.25)

In Dt this week, we finished sticking together our Viking houses. We had a great trip to Adeyfield to do some work in the Art department. We had a go at creating some more pictures in the style of Daniel Mackie.

Highlights of the Week (Wb24.03.25)

In Science this week, we explored gears. In RE, we did some P4C, discussing the themes from the Easter and Passover stories. In DT this week, we used some glue guns to construct our viking houses.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 17.03.25)

Super symmetry in PE this week. In DT this week, we measured and cut all the wood pieces for our Viking house.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 10.03.25)

In PSHE this week, we learnt how to put someone into the recovery position. In Science, we had fun exploring levers ans made a simple pulley mechanism.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 03.03.25)

We had some great costumes for World Book Day this week and the children talked very enthusiastically about their favourite books.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 24.02.25)

Highlights of the Week (Wb 10.02.25)

Highlights of the Week (Wb 03.02.25)

In Art this week we used our sketching skills to draw our chosen animal in the style of Daniel Mackie.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 27.01.25)

In Art this week, we used brush techniques and the quality of the paint to create tone.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 20.01.25)

In Maths this week, we worked as a group to match some units of measurements. In Science, we investigated air resistance. We made some parachutes which would use air resistance to slow down the fall of an egg to stop it from breaking. Some parachutes were more successful than others!

Highlights of the Week (Wb 13.01.25)

In RE this week, we learnt about the festival of Purim which remembers Esther. Purim is a fun festival. We ate some hamantashen biscuits, which are eaten during Purim. We rattled a gragger, to make lots of noise, when Haman's name is mentioned. In Science this week, we used Newton meters to measure the mass and weight of objects.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 07.01.25)

In English this week, the children worked in pairs to create a persuasive speech for the characters in our new book, 'Wolves in the Walls'.In History, we looked at clues to work out where the Vikings came from when they came to Britain and why they came here.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 16.12.24)

In Art this week, we finally made our Anglo Saxon jewellery by embossing into thick foil.

Highlights of the week (Wb 09.12.24)

We enjoyed our Christmas dinner today! Everybody looked fabulous in their Christmas outfits!

Highlights of the Week (Wb 02.12.24)

In Science this week, we were learning about irreversible changes. We mixed some bicarbonate of soda to some vinegar and made careful observations. We noticed that the vinegar began to fizz and bubble up. We realised that a gas had been made so we knew that a chemical reaction had taken place. We knew then, that an irreversible change had taken place.

In Maths, we played a matching game. We matched some fractions to their pictorial image. We also matched to fractions to their equivalent measure in money or length.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 25.11.24)

In Art this week, we drew some Anglo Saxon jewellery designs.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 18.11.24)

Electric Umbrella were absolutely amazing this week! In PSHE, we looked at the difference between direct bullying and indirect bullying. We also discussed what we could do if we thought someone was being bullied.

Highlights of the Week (14.11.24)

Highlights of the Week (Wb04.11.24)

In Science this week, we investigated different materials to see which one was the best thermal insulator. We measured the temperature of warm water over time to see which one stayed the warmest for longer when the container was wrapped in different materials.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 25.10.24)

We had a Coding workshop this week, which was great fun. The children programmed codes to display messages and for lights to come on and off. At Adeyfield this week, the children ran brilliantly at the Cross Country event. Well done everyone!

Highlights of the Week (Wb 14.10.24)

For Cultural Day on Monday, some people shared some special items from home. In Music this week, we used the glockenspiels to play in time to a simple beat

Highlights of the Week (Wb 07.10.24)

The last of the chefs baked their savoury muffins this week. The muffins smelt amazing! I hope they tasted as good as they smelt.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 30.09.24)

In Computing this week, we learnt about decomposition and abstraction in coding. Some of the children started their cooking this week. The savoury muffins smelt delicious! In Science, we investigated the saturation point of water.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 23.09.24)

In Science this week, we planned a fair test. We investigated if the temperature of the water affected the speed of salt dissolving.

Highlights of the Week (Wb16.09.24)

Highlights of the Week (Wb 09.09.24)

In DT this week, we tasted some ingredients in preparation for cooking savoury muffins. We evaluated them for smell, taste and texture.We had a lot of fun tasting the ingredients.

Highlights of the Week

In PSHE this week, we created our Class Charter. In History, we organised some historical events in British history in chronological order, on a timeline.

Dance Mat Typing Learn to type the fun way

Hit the button . Hit the button is a game that you can use to help you learn your tables, when you are feeling more confident why not try hit the question rather than hit the answer.

DK Find DK find is a great website for research, it has all the DK books as interactive ebooks.