Welcome to Year 5!

Your teachers are:

Mrs Chappell:     carolinechappell@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk 

Miss Barriball:    hannahbarriball@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 7th November 2025

We hope you had a wonderful half-term holiday! It has been a fantastic and productive first week back in Year 5, with everyone returning feeling refreshed and diving straight into their learning with great enthusiasm.

We were thrilled to kick off our new class book, ‘Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief’, and the children have already embraced it with great excitement. We began by rewriting the first chapter, focusing on using personification for description and parenthesis for adding character detail. Miss Barriball and Mrs Chappell were thoroughly impressed with the exceptional quality of writing everyone produced. A quick request: we are still looking for more copies of the book, so if you have one at home, please could your child bring it in.

In Maths, we have been finishing our unit on Multiplication and Division. The children have worked incredibly hard to consolidate their skills, showing great determination. Our new History topic on the Ancient Greeks has begun brilliantly; we learned about the difference between primary and secondary sources and how they help us understand life in that era. In Science, we launched our 'Materials' topic with some fun, fizzy experiments using lemonade, coke, and bicarbonate of soda. It was a little messy, but we all had a great time discovering how gas travels to the surface in carbonated drinks, which made our raisins dance up and down! Be sure to check out the photos.

A special well done to the whole class for their sensational writing and the mature way they have started all our new topics. A final reminder that our rearranged Rocket Workshop is finally happening this Monday—we are all very excited for this hands-on experience!

As always, thank you for your continued support.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Barriball & Mrs Chappell

Important Dates:

• Friday 14th November - Children In Need (Children dress as teachers and teachers as children)

• Friday 21sh November Christmas Fayre (please note the change of date)

• Tuesday 16th December UKS2 Carol Concert

• Wednesday 17th December – Christmas lunch and jumper day

• Friday 19th December – Christmas party day (non-school uniform and bring a buffet)

• Friday 19th December – End of term

HOMEWORK

Reading:
Please can your child read 5 times a week, preferably out loud. They have a reading log which will be checked every Friday morning. Please ensure their reading book comes in every day.

Maths:
We are asking everyone to complete 10 Garage sessions per week and 5 Soundchecks (15 minutes). Pupils can then play games of their choice once this is complete.

Spelling:
Teachers will check the Spelling Shed online logs every Friday. This assignment involves them playing 10 spelling games (there are 10 questions per game) linked to their learning in school. If you encounter any difficulties, please let us know as soon as possible.

Important messages/information:

SPARE SHOES:
Please put spare trainers in your child’s bag. In the event of rain, wet play and PE are result in wet, damp shoes. Thank you.