Saffron

Welcome to Year 5 and Team Saffron 2025/26

Your teacher is Miss Summers

Your teaching assistants are Mrs Archer and Mrs Brewster

This week in maths we have been working on short multiplication and long multiplication. The children have worked hard on mastering these methods. In English, we started a poetry unit where we explored different poems, looked at cinquain poems and their features and spent time thinking about how poets use language and the impact this has on the reader.

This week in history we have explored the discovery of Sutton Hoo and used artefacts found to think about who may have been buried at the site. In PSHE, we have thought about our own culture and how this may be similar and different to others. In computing, we have continued with our coding lessons and the children showed such resilience in trying to code their own alien spaceship game. We were very impressed by their coding abilities! Lastly, in RE we spent time thinking about gratitude and what we are thankful for. The children came up with lots of ideas, which were lovely to see. We then thought about how gratitude is important in Judaism.

Next week in maths, we will be having a further lesson practising long multiplication and then move onto understanding short division using concrete counters and pictorial representations to begin with before using our times tables knowledge to help us. At the end of the week, we will look at division with remainders as numbers and as fractions. In English next week, we will write our own cinquain poem inspired by the poem In Flanders Fields. We will then continue our mystery and suspense unit and start to read our new class book 'The Boy in the Tower', focusing on character viewpoints.

Have a great weekend!

Saffron's PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday for swimming.

Well done to our Half-termly Award Winners

	Autumn 1:	Autumn 2:	Spring 1:	Spring 2:	Summer 1:	Summer 2:
	Abdullah Connie Elissa Jax Fatimah
Rocked 5 times each week	Connie Elissa Ziggy
	Andreea Connie Elissa Ilinca Lola

Well done to our Weekly Award Winners

Toby

Imogen

Ziggy

Millie

Connie

Jax

Darius

Andreea

Imogen

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers

Ziggy

Jasper

Top 10 rockers

1)Fatimah 2)Ziggy 3)Lucy 4)Elissa 5)Jasper 6)Darius 7)Abdullah 8)Connie 9)Tyler 10)Jack

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Readers

Connie

Jack C

Millie

Ilinca

Elissa

Andreea

Jasper

Fatimah

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

Highlight of the Week

History - 07.11.25

The children explored clues about an Anglo-Saxon Discovery - Sutton Hoo - to think about who may have been buried there.

Resilience workshop - 22.10.25

We had a resilience workshop today where we learnt about what resilience is and talked about strategies to help us to manage big emotions. One of the strategies we practised was finger breathing. The children listened and contributed really well.