Year 5
Welcome to Year 5!
In this exciting year, we strive to create an inclusive environment where children can cultivate a genuine love for learning, embrace challenges, and build their resilience.
Year 5 is home to two wonderful classes, led by Mrs Bradwell and Miss Steward, who share the teaching role, alongside Mr Horner. Together, they will keep the children engaged, pushing their learning boundaries, collaborating with their ideas, nurturing their strengths, and supporting each child as they demonstrate determination, perseverance, and resilience to achieve their personal best. And let’s not forget the fun along the way!
Year Group Contact Email: We understand that it can be challenging for parents to reach us while we are busy in class and you are at work. To facilitate communication, we have established dedicated email accounts for each year group, which will be monitored by the relevant staff members. We are committed to responding to any important queries you may have regarding your child’s learning as promptly as possible.
Year Group Emails
year3@deepcar-st-johns.sheffield.sch.uk
year4@deepcar-st-johns.sheffield.sch.uk
year5@deepcar-st-johns.sheffield.sch.uk
year6@deepcar-st-johns.sheffield.sch.uk
Mrs Bradwell
Mr Horner
Miss Steward
News and Updates – 2024/25
for Wednesday 4th December 2024 to Friday 6th December 2024.
We are aware that this does not give parents a great deal of notice and fully appreciate that December
is already a financially challenging month. Therefore, Miss Jones has made the decision to offer parents
a longer period of time to pay for this.
The total cost of the residential will be £138 which includes an extensive activity package and coach
travel. We have heard great reports from other schools that have visited Willersley Castle and feel that this is
too good an opportunity to pass on.
All we are asking for at this stage is payment of an initial deposit of £35 by 1st November 2024.
The payment schedule will then be as follows –
£35 – 31st January 2025
£35 – 28th February 2025
£33 – 31st March 2025
If you would like your child to attend please complete the electronic form as soon as possible so we
can confirm numbers with the provider.
Please be aware that should you sign your child up for the residential and then change your mind the
providers cancellation policy will apply.
https://forms.microsoft.com/e/GL3EkXLAEk
Many Thanks
Mrs Bradwell, Miss Steward and Mr Horner
24th October
Linking Art and Science, we created some space inspired pieces of art!
24th October 2024
Here’s some photos of us investigating square numbers.
Photos from 2023/24 academic year.
Thank you to all who donated shoe boxes. We have now finished their biomes and proudly presented them to the class last week!
25th March
Today, in Year 5, the children have started a DT project which is to design and sew an emoji stuffed toy. They have chosen which emotion they want to create and then thought about suitable shapes for the eyes and mouth. The children must now use a range of stitches, running stitch, back stitch and blanket stitch to make their final creations. Well done for persevering today as cutting out the shapes was very tricky. We’ll show you our final designs later this week!
Week commencing 5th February
15th December
Last week Y5 had a special live virtual event with author Katherine Rundell. They listened intently as she discussed where she gets her ideas from. After Christmas, they will begin reading one of her best-selling books, The Explorer.
PE – Autumn Term 2
19th October 2023
Over the last couple of days Y5 have been making catapults. They have looked at the history of catapults and labelled the different parts. They then got to work cutting, measuring and assembling.
Thank you very much to all our parent helpers! Every group has now finished. They are very excited to test them out after half-term
Week commencing 16th October
In a recent science lesson we used Oreos to recreate the different phases of the moon.
They then enjoyed eating them after!
17th October
During an art afternoon, children in year 5 drew lines to divide their sketchbook into four and then tried to replicate a section of an image by selecting from a range of materials.
They took time to consider how they could recreate the colours, textures, lines and shapes.
Great work year 5!
3rd October
Today, we had a very special visit from a Professor from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield. He spoke to the children about the Solar System, the space station, space suits and much more. They thoroughly enjoyed the talk, learning lots and asking interesting questions!
29th September 2023
Today, we enjoyed our first Maths Measures Day of this academic year, where children got to build on their understanding of measurement in a fun and hands on way.
Thank you to all the parents, grandparents and carers who joined us this morning. We hope you enjoyed the morning as much as we did.
25th September 2023
In science, Year 5 are learning about the Sun, Earth and Moon. Yesterday, we investigated why we have day and night. We used globes and a torch, which represented the Sun, to understand how as the Earth spins on its axis, it rotates which creates night and day. In the UK, it is day time when we are facing the Sun and as we rotate away from the Sun it is night time. We had fun modelling this and trying to explain what is happening.