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 1 Summer term 25.5.25

Dates

28^th April – bags to school

29^th April – yr 5 PTA bake sale ‘Spring’ theme (no nuts)

30^th April – Class photos

5^th May – Bank holiday Monday

20^th May – KS2 sports day

26^th- 30^th May – Half term

Year 5 Weekly Update

We’ve had a fantastic start to the term in Year 5, diving into new topics and settling back into routines brilliantly!

This week, we've been exploring angles—learning to classify them as acute, right, obtuse, and reflex. The children have shown great understanding when estimating angles using their knowledge of angle types and their properties. Next week, we’ll begin using protractors to accurately measure and draw angles, building on all the excellent estimation work we’ve done so far.

We’ve started a new book in English—Origami Yoda! As the title suggests, it’s about a Yoda made from origami (obviously!). The children are really enjoying the story, and it’s a brilliant example of instructional writing, especially with its clear use of imperative verbs. It’s already sparked some creative discussions!

In Science, we’ve been investigating the properties of materials, focusing this week on thermal insulators and conductors. The class showed great curiosity and teamwork while exploring how different materials behave.  We had planned to test for electrical conductivity too, but we ran out of time due to a special RNLI assembly, which was well worth it!

We’ve kicked off the term with netball and badminton in PE. The children have shown brilliant energy and teamwork in both sports—great to see such enthusiasm on the court!

Don’t forget it’s our year 5 bake sale next week!  We can’t wait to taste the delicious cakes and biscuits!

All in all, a great start to the term—well done, Year 5!

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.