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 9 Summer term 27.6.25

Dates

10th and 11th July – transition days

14th July – 2 minute beach clean day - we still need some parent helpers for this!

18^th July – last day of the summer term

Year 5 Weekly Update

It’s been another busy week! In English, the children wrote a brand-new chapter for Beowulf, full of fresh heroes and terrifying monsters. We're really excited to see the final edited and published versions next week—it’s going to look amazing!

We’ve been tackling negative numbers in maths, using them to solve problems about things like freezing temperatures and deep-sea depths. It’s cool to see how these numbers work in real life. Science was especially interesting this week—we compared the life cycles of kangaroos and hedgehogs, looking at how their babies survive and how long they grow inside their mothers. We also learned about deforestation and how it hurts the environment, but the good news is we can all help by planting more trees.

Just a heads-up for next week: we’ll have our sex and relationships education lessons on Monday and Wednesday. Some children might come home with questions, so you might want to be ready for those chats. Also, don’t forget—transition days are coming up on the 10th and 11th of July!

We will be uploading all the photos from the surf and SUP day very soon so keep your eyes peeled for those.

As always, if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch. Wishing you a lovely weekend!

Have a lovely 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.