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. 

 

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!

Sapphire's PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday.

Well done to our Weekly Award Winners

Emilia & Freya

Amalia & Mason S

Ruby & Adam

Henry & Jaax

Ruby

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers 

x7   Ariaana

X5

Top Ten Rockers

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Readers

Emilia Mason W Adam

Ariaana Dolly-Rose Oscar Niamh Charlotte Freya Zinzile Zachary Jaxx Maya Amalia

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/zmyxxycBBC
• Books To Make You Feel Better..pdf

Documents you may find useful

• key-word-spelling-lists.docx
• Spelling Lists - All Year Groups.pdf
• Grammatical Terminology Prompt.pdf

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.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 29.09.25)

In PE this week, Sapphire had great fun learning some tag rugby skills. 

Highlight of the Week (Wb 22.09.25)

In Science this week, we investigated if the temperature of the water affected how quickly the salt dissolved.

Highlight of the Week (Wb 15.09.25)

This week, we had great fun in Computing, coding instructions for a game.