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.

What a busy half term we’ve had! In Science this half term we found out that Earth spins on its own axis to create day and night and it orbits the sun in 365 days. We also learnt that the Earth, moon and sun are all roughly spherical and that the sun is just a regular dwarf star! In Art, we started to look at the work of artist Wassily Kandinsky and had a go at creating some artwork in the same abstract expressionism style.

In Geography we have been finding out about the features of rivers and learnt that the erosion that rivers cause, changes the shape of the landscape. We also found out the positive and negative effects that volcanoes have on humans and the surrounding landscape. In RE, we have looked at authority figures and discussed who these could be at home, in school and in the wider community. We also looked at the roles and responsibilities of different religious leaders and compared them to find similarities and differences. In Computing, we have been designing and making our own computer games, which has been great fun, and in Music we have been learning to play the cornets. In French, we learnt some vocabulary linked to space and described and compared planets.

In PSHE, we have been learning about how we can keep ourselves safe online and what to do when we feel unsafe or when something becomes unhelpful to us. We have also discussed how we can recognise if we are spending too much time on our screens and things we can do to make it better if our screen time is affecting our mental or physical health.

We had an amazing week this week to finish off the half term with Curriculum Week. On Monday, for Art Day, we created some self portraits after learning about Frida Kahlo and exploring some of her portraits. On Tuesday, for Drama Day, we explored how we can show a range of emotions using facial expressions and our body language, on Wednesday for Geography, we learnt all about sustainability and created some artwork using recycled cardboard and on Thursday, for Music Day, we had great fun singing some songs from The Lion KIng.

For Science next half term, we will move on to our new topic of Life cycles and Reproduction and will explore the life cycles of different animal groups. In Geography, we will be learning about how earthquakes impact on human settlements, we will name and identify the features of mountains and find out how they are made. We will also think about the effect tourism has in mountainous areas

Have an absolutely fabulous half term holiday and enjoy the sunshine!

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

Oscar & Osman

Charlotte, Naimh, Olivia, Carter

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

Mason W

Oscar

Niamh

Charlotte

Freya

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 (Curriculum Week)

We had great fun in Curriculum Week this week.

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

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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.

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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!

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This week, Sapphire started learning to play the cornets in Music.

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Congratulations to the weekly Achievement winners!

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This week in DT, we used the glue guns to attach the wood together to construct the Viking houses.

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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.

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In DT this week, everyone baked some amazing savoury muffins.

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In DT this week we designed our Viking houses.

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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.

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In maths this week, we used multilink cubes to build cubed numbers. Well done to all the Achievement certificate winners for this week!

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This week in Art we created tone using watercolours.

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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.

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This week in Art we had great fun making our Anglo Saxon jewellery, using embossing techniques.

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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!

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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!

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This week in Science, we investigated which material was the best insulator to keep a cup of water warm for the longest period.

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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.

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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.

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This week, in Science we investigated the properties of different materials. We tested for magnetism, permeability, hardness, flexibility and if the materials were transparent.

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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.