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

Mrs Bradwell

Mr Horner

Mr Horner

Miss Steward

Miss Steward

News and Updates – 2024/25

We have been offered a heavily reduced 2-night residential package for Willersley Castle in Derbyshire
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

The payment item for the residential is now available on  ParentPay account. 

Thank you

Mrs Bradwell, Miss Steward and Mr Horner

24th October 2024
Yesterday, we had a fabulous day exploring Vindolanda and the Roman Army Museum in Northumberland!It was a fantastic hands-on experience that truly brought their classroom learning to life. From handling artifacts to walking in the footsteps of Roman soldiers, they’ve deepened their understanding of this fascinating era.
We’re so proud of their impeccable behavior – they were wonderful ambassadors for our school! A huge thank you to all the staff make this unforgettable day possible.

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.

26th June
We have been learning about the different ways plants reproduce. Two ways they do this is by sending out runners and by growing tubers. We have visited our school garden to look at the strawberry plants to see if they are producing runners yet, and we spotted a few. We were able to pick some ripe strawberries and Mrs Bell’s class were able to taste them. Miss Woods-Booth’s class will be next. We also checked on our potato plants that we have grown from seed potatoes. Fingers crossed we get a good harvest so we can taste these too!
Here are Y5MWB’s finished emoji teddies!
They have designed the emoji themselves and used a range of stitches: running, cross and blanket to add details and secure.
Tons of effort and focus have gone into these – well done. 

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!

20th March 2024
Yesterday, children were absolutely buzzing about their virtual reality sessions at school.
They went on an incredible journey exploring the Amazon, travelling back to The Stoneage and discovering facts about Volcanoes, giving them all an immersive learning experience linked to our current themes in school.
We’re thrilled to see our children engaging with technology in such a meaningful and educational way.
7th March 2024
World Book day is a great opportunity for children to come together and celebrate the joy of reading. Sharing a book can foster a love for literature and encourage creativity and imagination.
Allowing children from across Royd and St John’s to come together to share a book helps to promote reading for pleasure as well as allowing the older children develop their leadership, nurturing and communication skills.
21st February 
Today, Mrs Bell’s class had lots of fun in computing where they learnt to connect a microcontroller and program it to light up an LED! Some children added a forever loop to keep it flashing constantly. Miss Woods-Booth was very impressed with how quick they picked it up!

Week commencing 5th February

This week, Y5 have developed their art skills, experimenting with materials and techniques. Today, they finished their final pieces. They have had lots of freedom when deciding what to use in creating their self-portrait and have had to carefully consider the atmosphere and message behind it.
They are all so unique; well done Y5MWB!
Week commencing 5th February
In  their Art lesson this week, the children in Y5HBSB have created a Poem Portrait.
This consisted of the children writing a poem about themselves in the outline of their face. They then chose a background choosing from watercolour, collage or card shapes to add detail to parts of the face.
The children really enjoyed this process and the results were really quite unique. Well done!
Monday 18th December
We have thoroughly enjoyed our Roman day today!
 
In the morning, we made their own ‘Marius Mules’ to carry their kit. They practised Roman army drills using shields and swords (particularly enjoying the testudo formation!). They also spent time making roman coins, signalling using flags, trying on Roman armour/clothing and using Roman-style weighing scales.
 
In the afternoon, they became Roman engineers, building arched bridges and firing catapults at targets. They also enjoyed playing a range of Roman games and creating an offering for the Gods.
 
We finished the day by firing the Onega catapult in the hall. A fun-filled, engaging day for all!

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.

14th December
Miss Woods-Booth’s class have enjoyed designing their own websites this week. They have carefully considered their font choice, size, background and images. After Christmas they will be adding more information and hyperlinks. Well done Y5!
Miss Woods-Booth has been so impressed with the Autumn half-term homework from her class. Well done to the children on their creativity and effort!

PE – Autumn Term 2

Hockey is a great way for children to get active. It helps them develop strength, agility, and endurance while having fun.
It also helps with co-ordination skills and team work.
Hockey forms part of our PE curriculum and this week we are practising our ball control and dribbling skills.

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. 

8th September 2023

During transition week, we started sketching self portraits. Over the course of this week, the portraits have been finished and will now be going on display.

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