Year 5
2023/24 Academic Year
Welcome to year 5! In year 5, we aim to provide an inclusive environment where children are able to develop a love of learning, challenge themselves to take risks and develop their resilience. There are two classes in Year 5, Mrs Bell and Mrs Bradwell, who job share, and Miss Woods-Booth are the class teachers.
Together, we are keeping the children on their toes, challenging their learning, corroborating with their ideas, encouraging them in their strengths and supporting each child as they demonstrate determination, perseverance and resilience, in order to make the very best of themselves and their personal progress. And, who could forget – having fun along the way! There’s always a surprise never too far away when you’re in year 5.
Year Group Contact Email
We appreciate that it may be hard for parents to be able to contact us when we are often in class and parents are at work. To this end we have set up email accounts for each year group which will be accessed by the relevant staff members in response to any pertinent queries you may have regard your child’s learning. We will endeavor to respond as soon 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
As part of our extra-curricular activities, Y5 will be going on a two-night residential to YHA Loosehill Hall in Castleton from Wednesday 12th June 2024 to Friday 14th June 2024.
Loosehill Hall creates unique opportunities for young people to explore, grow and revel in the glorious great outdoors. Engaging students with real, hands-on experiences and extraordinary learning opportunities in the most inspiring and spectacular location. During this 2-night residential experience, students (or ‘agents’ as they will be referred to) will be put through their paces as they hone their skills at a variety of action-packed, adrenaline-fuelled activities, as well as a number of spy skills unique to our YHA Alex Rider Classified Mission. Agents will be encouraged to climb, jump, leap and step forward into new challenges as they gain new skills, build confidence and enjoy an all-encompassing learning experience. Abseil or climb on ‘real’ rock, learn essential field craft skills, canoe or raft across lakes, design new spy gadgets, crack codes and hunt down double agents. There are bags of exhilarating activities, guaranteed to keep them entertained.
The cost of the residential will be approximately £197 and this will include the cost of the coach, accommodation and food as well as experienced staff to deliver a range of activities.
Further details will be sent nearer the time but if you have any queries or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us via the school office.
Installment Payment Schedule
Payment for the Y5 residential will be collected in 6 instalments as follows:
Instalment 1- £32.83 to be paid by 31 October 2023.
Instalment 2 – £32.83 to be paid by 30 November 2023.
Instalment 3 – £32.83 to be paid by 31 January 2024.
Instalment 4 – £32.83 to be paid by 29 February 2024.
Instalment 5 – £32.83 to be paid by 31 March 2024.
Instalment 6 – £32.85 to be paid by 30 April 2024.
Total – £197
Payment is now available via your child’s ParentPay account.
Year 5 – News and Updates – Autumn Term 2023-24
Week commencing 5th February
Y5 have enjoyed some survival skills lessons recently in preparation for writing a set of instructions about how to survive in the Amazon rainforest.
They had to guess which fruits were edible and match injuries to the correct treatments. Outside, they made their own shelter (a lean-to), made beds raised from the ground in order to not lose body heat and discussed how to create a fire. A fun, hands-on morning!
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.