Saffron

Welcome to Year 5 and Team Saffron 2025/26

Your teacher is Miss Summers

Your teaching assistants are Mrs Archer and Mrs Brewster

Welcome back to everyone! We hope you all had a lovely Easter break.

This week in Maths we were identifying the strategies needed to solve a variety of word problems and using a mixture of mental calculations and formal methods to calculate the answers. In English this week, we looked at the features often used in explanation texts and then gathered factual information in preparation for writing about why the Vikings were so successful at invading other countries. We also rehearsed using some causal conjunctions to help us to explain.

In DT this week, we finished painting the Viking houses we made last term and evaluated our work. In PSHE, we thought about how we view ourselves, choosing some positive traits that we would use to describe our characters. We also discussed how we could improve our self esteem, if we needed to from time to time. In RE, we learnt what an authority figure is and what personal qualities those people have to do their jobs. In Computing, we started our new unit, Game Creator, and played some games that other children had designed. We evaluated them and thought about what was good about them and what we liked. This has now given us some ideas for our own games that we will create over the next few weeks. In French we started our new unit on Space and learnt some new vocabulary for the planets.

Next week in English, we will be writing our explanation texts, making sure that we use some technical vocabulary and a range of conjunctions to sequence and explain. In Maths, we will be using bar models to help us solve some word problems.

Have a great weekend!

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

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	Millie Woodrow Ruby Toby Lily	Tyler Kleo Ella Jack C Rishil	Ilinca Lola Ziggy Mason Kleo
Rocked 5 times each week	Connie Elissa Ziggy	Jasper Ziggy	Jasper	Jasper
	Andreea Connie Elissa Ilinca Lola	Andreea Connie Elissa Jack C Rishil Jasper	Connie Elissa Jasper Ziggy	Connie Elissa Jasper

Well done to our Weekly Award Winners

Isla

Toby

Rishil

Millie

Darius

Ilinca

Connie

Tyler

Millie

Jasper

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers

Lily

Jasper

Top 10 rockers

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

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Readers

Darius

Keanu

Rishil

Ruby

Sophie

Tyler

Kleo

Ariyah

Connie

Elissa

Ella

Ilinca

Jack C

Jasper

Lily

Millie

Toby

Ziggy

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

DT 13.04.26

The children had fun finishing off decorating their Viking Houses.

English 24.03.26 & 25.03.26

This week the children did a fantastic job at performing the poems they wrote to inspire year 4 or year 6 children following learning about Karl Nova and his poetry. They used assonance really well and were very brave to perform in front of the class.

DT 18.03.26

Everyone worked really hard in DT today to finish off their Viking Houses. Well done!

Science week 12.03.26

This week was science week and the children had a lot of fun completing their investigation to see if they could make a raft that floats. They then had a challenge to see which raft could hold the most multi-link cubes. They needed to use teamwork.

World Book Day 05.03.26

It was so lovely to see all the children's outfits on World Book Day. We had a very busy and fun day. We joined an online live 'books and football' based quiz, had our world book day assembly, designed our own book covers, completed some book reviews and had a lovely time at 'books and blankets'.

DT w.c. 23.02.26

This week and during the last week of half-term the children cooked their vegetable muffins with Mrs Pyke. They all worked very hard and I do hope they enjoyed the finished product at home!

DT 10.02.26

The children enjoyed tasting some ingredients ahead of making their vegetable muffins. We thought about the smell and texture as well. It was lovely to see children trying some new things!

Art 06.02.2026

This afternoon, we created our final pieces inspired by Daniel Mackie. The children's work was so impressive!

Maths 26.01.2026

Today we learnt about using squares to estimate area and compared the area of one of our feet and one of our hands to see which had the greatest area. The children showed great determination with this!

Young Voices

We are incredibly proud of the members of our team and the rest of the school who attended the Young Voices this week. You all did so amazingly well!

PSHE 21.01.2026

In PSHE this week, we thought about the importance of different jobs and learnt about the salaries for these jobs. We did well at working together during our activities.

Science 14.01.2026

This week in science, we learnt about gravity and learnt about the difference between mass and weight. The children enjoyed weighing different items from the classroom using Newton Metres. Well done Team!

Art 09.01.2026

It has been a lovely week back finished by an art lesson where we were learning about our artist for the unit Daniel Mackie, thinking about his work and what we like about it and then comparing it to another artist's work.

Science lesson 16.12.25

In science, we learnt about irreversible changes. The children observed what happens when baking powder is added to vinegar and then saw that carbon dioxide is used as Miss Summers used the gas created as a fire extinguisher to put out some tea light flames.

Chiltern Air Museum 11.12.25

The children were absolutely fantastic on the trip. They enjoyed an archeology workshop in the morning and then a workshop on the life of an anglo-saxon in the afternoon. What an amazing day! Our Elf Edith even made her way with us.

Science 05.12.25

The children worked hard in science this afternoon, researching different scientists in order to learn about what they invented. We thought about the impact scientists have on the world.

Computing workshop 25.11.25

The children listened really well and worked really hard in our computing workshop today. They programmed a microbit and tested to see if their programming had worked.

Art 21.11.25

In art, we designed some Anglo-Saxon-inspired jewellery which we will make using embossing before the Christmas break. The children worked hard to think of different designs.

Science and Cool to be Kind Week - 10.11.25

In science, we investigated which material would insulate a container the best. We discussed how to make it a fair test and recorded our results over time. Whilst waiting for the results, we started off Cool to be Kind week by the children sharing 5 compliments with their learning partners. We talked about how good it feels when someone is kind. I am looking forward to seeing how the children continue to show kindness throughout 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.