Welcome to Year 5!

Your teachers are:

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

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

Weekly Newsletter

28th November 2025

We have had a wonderfully creative and productive week in Year 5. The children have fully immersed themselves in our extended English project by creating a double-page spread on Camp Half-Blood, which they used as an opportunity to showcase some key grammatical skills. They expertly used relative clauses to add detail, subordination to link complex ideas, and parenthesis for extra information. The children, who enjoyed being more independent, really got stuck into having a longer writing project to focus on.

In maths, we tackled the tricky concept of finding common denominators and numerators to order and compare fractions. This required a lot of resilience, and we were so pleased that most of the children absolutely nailed it. We will continue to practise this next week.

Our PE lessons have been a fantastic source of energy and enthusiasm. We are really enjoying teaching both hockey and tag rugby, and we have some really enthusiastic sports people in the year group. It's really exciting seeing talent come through and confidence growing with every session.

In art, the children have taken time to study Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' in more detail. They used the impasto technique to paint a section of the painting, and next they will sketch their own compositions, using photos of Bude and the sea at night as their inspiration.

On a festive note, we have started practising the song for the Upper KS2 Carol Concert. We have a lovely group of angelic voices, and we are thrilled that some of our Year 5s will be performing solos. We really hope you can join us on the 16th of December in the afternoon for what promises to be a lovely celebration.

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:

• 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

• Monday 5th January - start of Spring 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.