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.

The children have had another busy and successful week!

This week in maths, the children have worked incredibly hard in revision lessons and on their reasoning and arithmetic tests. Well done everyone! In English, we have continued to write our non-chronological report using technical language and parenthesis that we practised in previous lessons.

In DT, we worked together to measure the wood for our Viking Houses and learnt how to saw these safely using a hack saw and bench hook.

In PSHE, we thought together about how the media and celebrity culture promote certain body types and looked at how images in the media can be altered.

In science, we completed an investigation for science week, where we tried to make a raft that would float. We had the challenge of seeing if the raft could hold multi-link cubes and had a competition to see whose raft could hold the most. We learnt that the rafts with a bigger surface area were more successful.

In RE, we recapped the Christian story of Easter and then learnt about the symbols of Easter and what they represent.

In History, we investigated what Viking life was like using different sources and thought about if we would prefer to live in Viking times or modern day.

This week in computing we created a class database and worked together to input different 'records' for members of our class.

Next week in maths we will be moving onto our angles unit. We will be recapping the properties of different angles before comparing and ordering them. We will learn how to measure angles accurately using a protractor, learn to draw angles using a protractor, and learn how to find missing angles. In English, we will finish our non-chronological reports using all the skills we have been practising. We will have the opportunity to edit and improve these and also write a blurb.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Sapphire's PE days for next week are Monday and Thursday.

Joseph & Theo

Zinzile & Niamh

Adam & Carter

Ariaana & Amalia

Freya

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers

Amalia

Top Ten Rockers

Ariaana

Noori

Amalia

Isabella

Isla

Olivia

Dolly-Rose

Carter

Henry

Freya

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Readers

Mason W

Olivia

Freya

Fred

Zachary

Charlotte

Niamh

Oscar

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 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.