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.

The children have worked very hard again this week!

In maths this week, we have completed further problem-solving questions, including addition and subtraction problems, percentage-based problems, rounding-based problems and decimal-based problems. Within this, we have recapped what percentages are and how we round. In English, we have planned an advert for a new invention to fix a problem within groups. I was so impressed by the creativity shown! We then used the group plan to create our own poster adverts, which we presented to the class.

In PSHE, we learnt about the different relationships people can have and thought about what having a girlfriend or boyfriend may mean. We also completed a second lesson in PSHE where we learnt about how babies are made. The children were very mature in this lesson. In Computing, we learnt about different text formatting that we can use in Google Docs. In Science, we learnt about how humans change as they age. We worked with our learning partners to draw the different stages a human goes through and thought about what happens in each of these stages. In Geography, we learnt about mountainous climates and the risks around these for humans. We discussed why people may choose to visit mountains despite these risks. In French, we learnt about how to say what our different family members like/dislike.

Next week in maths, we will revise converting between the 12-hour and 24-hour clock, we will solve problems with units of measure and number and we will revise translation and reflection of shapes. In English, we will start our new poetry unit where we will explore different poems, perform some poems from our class book, learn about how figurative language can be used in poems before having a go at planning and writing our own poem.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

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

Emilia & Mason S

Freya & Carter

Jaxx & Niamh

Amelia V & Theo

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers

Maya

Amalia (6)

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

Oscar

Zachary

Niamh

Maya

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 06.07.26)

This week, Sapphire and Saffron performed some of the songs they had learnt on the cornet during their Music lessons this term. They were amazing|

Highlights of the Week (Wb 29.06.26)

In Geography this week, we learnt how 5 different types of mountains are made from dome, volcanic, plateau, and fault block to fold mountains.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 22.06.26)

Sapphire had great fun on Monday, learning some skateboarding skills and some circus skills.

Highlights of the Week (Wb 15.06.26)

In DT this week, Year 5 enjoyed a catapult workshop where they made mini catapults with lollipop sticks and a big catapult using knex equipment. They did a great job working as a team to problem solve to get their catapults to fire a ping-pong ball across the room!

Highlights of the Week (Wb 08.06.26)

In Geography this week, we used atlases to locate mountains around the world and find out how tall they are. In Art, we continued to work on our Kandinsky-inspired abstract pictures.

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.

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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.