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 English we have written our biographies about Marie Curie. The children worked hard to include formal language and to ensure they wrote in chronological order. In maths, we have done some Christmas-related problem-solving activities.

In science, we learnt about irreversible changes and thought about how we might know if an irreversible change has happened. We were able to know that carbon dioxide is produced when vinegar is mixed with baking powder, showing us an example of an irreversible change, because our teachers showed us how it can be used as a fire extinguisher. This was very exciting! In RE, we compared birthing celebrations from different religions. In PSHE, we looked at the differences between cultures and compared other cultures to our own. We talked about how important it is to celebrate differences in culture. We have also done some fun Christmas activities this week, which the children have enjoyed! The children did really well in the Christmas carol concert on Monday and we hope you enjoyed it if you were able to attend.

In the spring term in English, we will be looking at our new class book, ‘Misadventures of Frederick’. We will be using the letters in this book to consider the audience and purpose of letters, then we will be thinking about the features of persuasive letters, persuasive vocabulary and the language that is used in letters. In maths, we will be learning to multiply fractions less than a whole to begin with before multiplying fractions that are greater than a whole.

We hope you all have a lovely festive Christmas break. We look forward to hearing all about your time off in the new year. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Saffron's PE days are changing next term to a Monday and Thursday.

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
Rocked 5 times each week	Connie Elissa Ziggy	Jasper Ziggy
	Andreea Connie Elissa Ilinca Lola	Andreea Connie Elissa Jack C Rishil Jasper

Well done to our Weekly Award Winners

Millie

Jax

Andreea

Kleo

Sophie

Tyler

Jack C

Ruby

Lucy

Ruby

Ilinca

Kleo

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers

Elissa

Connie

Ziggy (x6)

Jasper

Top 10 rockers

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

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Readers

Kleo

Ziggy

Rishil

Connie

Jasper

Elissa

Jack C

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

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.