Welcome to year 5!

Your teachers are: Mrs Chappell & Miss Metherell

carolinechappell@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk            grace.metherell@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Hello and welcome to Year Five!

Playground Snacks

We encourage children to bring a snack for morning playtime to eat in the playground. The children are allowed to bring fruit or vegetables but please give consideration to a snack that is safe and easy to eat while on the move! Every day, under a government scheme, all children in the YR, Y1 and Y2 are provided with a piece of free fruit/vegetable in class.

Year 5 Weekly Update – Week 10 Summer term 04.07.25

Dates

• 10th and 11th July – transition days
• 14th July – 2 minute beach clean day
• 18^th July – last day of the summer term

What a creative week we’ve had! The class has just finished publishing their dramatic Beowulf-style chapters, complete with terrifying monsters and heroic deeds - they’ve been absolutely loving marking each other’s work. In maths, we cracked the code for converting metric measurements - once we realised it’s all about multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 or 1000, everything clicked! Some extra practice at home would be wonderful to keep this fresh.

Our young conservationists have been fascinated learning about Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey’s incredible work. The discovery about Fossey’s tragic fate while protecting gorillas really brought home how important their mission was. We’ll be turning all this research into fact files next week.

A quick heads-up that we’ve now completed our RSE unit covering puberty - your child might have some questions pop up over the coming days, so do keep those conversations going at home.

Exciting news - our area sports event is coming up next week! If your child has been selected to participate, you’ll receive an email with all the details.

Beach Trip Help Needed!
We’re still short of helpers for our beach trip on 14th July - if you might be available to join us, please do let me know. Even just one or two more adults would make all the difference!

As we approach the end of term, let’s remember it’s completely normal for everyone to feel a bit more tired and frazzled. Early nights and plenty of patience will help us sail through these final weeks - we’ve got this!

Wishing you all a restful weekend,

Mrs Chappell and Miss Metherell

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.

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 15 garage sessions per week (15 minutes). Pupils can then play games of their choice once this is complete.

Spellings homework:
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. Please ensure that your child has logged in and had a go at accessing some of the games in their assignment. If you encounter any difficulties, please let us know as soon as possible.