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.

This week in English, we will began our new Narrative unit and read the book, ‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’. We started by giving our personal responses to the book and then we wrote sentences, based on the story, with expanded noun phrases and relative clauses. We also re-ordered the clauses in sentences to add variety to our writing, to keep the reader engaged. In Maths, we revisited converting between units of measure (for example litres to millilitres, kilometres to metres and kilograms to grams) and then solved a range of word problems involving measure.

In RE this week, we learnt what the wide roles and responsibilities of a Christian leader are and what personal qualities they must have in order to do their job as somebody in a position of authority. In Geography, we learnt some of the key features of rivers, including the source at the start of the river and the mouth at the end of the river. In PSHE, we continued to discuss the positives and negatives of online communities and we discussed what we should do if we ever feel concerned about anything we see online or uncomfortable about messages received. In Art, we used different mediums (e.g pastel, pencil, water colours and paper) to create a picture in the style of Wassily Kandinsky. In Computing, we continued to work on our games, adding another level of difficulty by adding more obstacles and ’enemies’ that hunt the player. In French, we learnt how to use some language to compare planets (e.g. bigger, smaller, hotter, colder) and in Science, we found out what evidence there is to prove that the planet Earth is spherical and not flat.

Next week in English, we will continue our work using the book ‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’ and write some descriptive sentences using some expanded noun phrases. We will also use a range of fronted adverbials to give more detail for the reader and we will consider how some characters feel and what they might say at certain points in the story. In Maths next week, we will be solving problems involving scaling by either multiplying or dividing numbers. We will also look at word problems involving fractions and percentages.

Have a great extra long weekend!

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

Zachary & Isla N

Oscar & Ruby

Noori & Hussnain

Henry & Osman

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers

Amalia

Isabella

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

Isabella

Oscar

Niamh

Charlotte

Maya

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

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.