Welcome to Year 5!

Your teachers are:

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

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

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 14th November 2025

We've had another fantastic and productive week in Year 5, packed with creativity, challenge, and some truly impressive rocket science!

In English, our journey with Percy Jackson in The Lightning Thief continues to inspire some excellent writing. This week, we focused on three key skills: using fronted adverbials with commas to vary our sentence openers, improving our sentences through subordination, and mastering the tricky skill of correctly punctuated dialogue. The children worked incredibly hard on speech punctuation. It's a complex skill, so this is very much a work in progress, but we are so proud of their determination. Continued practice at home with reading will be a great help!

In Maths, we have launched into our new topic of fractions! The children have shown a brilliant attitude towards what can be a tricky area of maths. We started the week by exploring equivalent fractions, which required the children to use their times tables knowledge. It really highlighted the importance of regular practice, and it's clear to see who is making great use of Times Tables Rock Stars – keep it up!

In Art, we began our new topic by studying the beautiful work of Vincent van Gogh. We focused on his famous Sunflowers paintings. The children then had the challenging task of trying to match his vibrant colours as closely as possible using watercolour paints. They showed great observation and skill.

The highlight of the week was undoubtedly the rocket workshop! It absolutely surpassed all our expectations. It was incredible to see every single child fully engaged, applying scientific thinking to streamline and improve their rocket designs. The enthusiasm and teamwork were wonderful to witness.  We definitely have some budding engineers in the future! A huge congratulations to Paloma, Megan, and Harriett, whose rocket flew the furthest out of the entire year group! We would also like to give a special mention to Charlie in Oak Class. His first rocket was an epic failure, but he showed tremendous perseverance and resilience. He did not give up, went back to the drawing board, and produced a second rocket which came an impressive fourth overall. 

Have a lovely and restful weekend, and don't forget about the homework set for this week.

Best regards,

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.