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.

It has been so lovely to welcome the children back this week and hear about their lovely half-terms. We have certainly had a busy week!

This week in English we have began our discussion unit. We have thought about the features of a discussion text, used key phrases in both a verbal and written discussion/debate and thought about the positive and negative effects of tourism on mountains to think about ideas for our writing next week. In maths, we have been revising several topics ahead of our assessments next week. We have revisited place value, rounding, measuring angles, finding missing angles on a line, calculating perimeter and area and cube and square numbers. The children have done fantastically well! We have also learnt about line graphs and how to interpret these.

In PSHE, we have learnt about how to keep ourselves safe online when talking to friends and designed fantastic posters with top tips on keeping safe online. In RE, we learnt about what an ultimate question is and had interesting discussions about some ultimate questions. In music, we had another Cornet lesson to get us ready for our performance this half-term. We have also continued our Art topic from last half-term and re-created another Kandinsky piece using our favourite medium from our Concentric circles piece last half-term. In computing, we have started our new unit on concept mapping and enjoyed creating our own concept map about our chosen topic.

Next week, some of our English lessons will be spent engaging in our Summer reading assessment, and we will begin to plan our discussion piece of writing all about the effects of tourism on mountains. In maths, we will be having more revision lessons prior to completing our summer maths assessments.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

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

Niamh & Amelia V

Maya & Fred

Freya & Dolly

Oscar & Adam

Osman & Joseph

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers

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

Olivia

Maya

Oscar

Niamh

Charlotte

Zachary

Isla N

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

Geography Summer Term Optional Home Learning.docx

DOCX File

Highlights of the Week (Wb 02.06.26)

Sapphire had great fun doing PE in the hall this week, playing dodgeball. In Art, we started on a new piece of artwork, inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, using shape, lines and colour. Congratulations to Noori on her music exam!

Highlights of the Week (Curriculum Week)

We had great fun in Curriculum Week this week.

Highlights of the Week (Wb11.05.26)

Highlights of the Week (Wb 05.05.26)

In Computing this week, we finished creating our games on 2DIY3D. Congratulations to the Achievement certificate winners for this week!

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.