Welcome to Year 5!

Your teachers are:

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

Mrs Drew:    hannahdrew@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Weekly Update: Friday 9th October 2026

Important Dates:

22.10.26 Halloween Disco

26-30.10.26 Half term

2.11 and 3.11 INSET days (no children in school)

With two weeks till half term, and swimming lessons the last few weeks, please try to encourage the children to have a rest this weekend so they return on Monday reinvigorated! 

It has been another busy week in Year 5: Oak have been busy starting double page spreads in History for the children to showcase their knowledge of their topic 'The Plague' to creating the newspaper structure for their doughnut models while Rowan have enjoyed their swimming lessons this week. 

Rowan Class have represented the school brilliantly this week, particularly on Thursday when we had to make a quick exit from Stratton after the fire drill to ensure we made it to the pool on time! All week, the children's confidence and skills have improved in the pool, and today, they thoroughly enjoyed jumping in with more clothes than usual before then enjoying a fun session with floats and the slide. 

In English, the children have been enthralled by the magic and excitement of C.S. Lewis' novel 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'. It has been lovely to see so many children keen to read aloud to the rest of their class before applying and learning grammatical structures with this same topic. This week, the children have been introduced to relative clauses (which they are beginning to use with increasing confidence) while simultaneously revisiting work on fronted adverbials and subordinate clauses. 

In Maths, we finished our place value unit on Monday, focusing on Roman numerals - the children were really fascinated by the patterns the Romans created with their number systems and got really stuck into their learning. For the rest of the week, we have been practising formal written methods for addition and subtraction - we will continue with this further next week. 

Also, throughout the week, the children have had some wonderful additional assemblies this week on enrichment opportunities within the school this year: 

• On Tuesday, we had a drumming teacher lead a demonstration - if your child fancies having a go at drumming lessons, please let us know. 
• On  Wednesday, the children had their iRock assembly - if they fancy becoming part of a band, it is not too late for them to sign up. 
• On Thursday, the children had an assembly introducing them to Lego League for this upcoming year. The children have a paper application for this club should they wish to join. It is all about programming, building robots and obstacles, problem solving and being creative thinkers. 

Finally, please remember homework is set on a Friday and due the following Friday. Many children are fully back in the swing of this routine now, and we hope more and more of the children will consistently complete theirs! 

Have a lovely, relaxing weekend and we look forward to seeing you all again on Monday, 

Mrs Drew and Mrs Chappell

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 so please make sure their reading has been logged. Please ensure their reading book comes in every day.

Maths:
Mymaths.  This will be checked on Friday.  All children should now have log in details but please get in touch if you're struggling to locate them!

Spelling:
We 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.