Cedar (Year 5)

Cedar Class

Hello and welcome to Cedar class, my name is Mrs Griffin and I am the year 5 class teacher. I am the maths lead across the school and am so proud of the journey our school has been on over the last few years! I am an experienced teacher and have taught every year group throughout my 18 year career!

Last year I covered PPA across the school as well as covering for staff training and absences but I am excited to teach year 5 this year.

I am passionate about providing high-quality teaching and learning to all. My primary aim as a class teacher is to provide a safe, engaging learning environment where all learners can flourish, develop independence and be the best that they can be.

In my free time, I enjoy travelling with my husband and two daughters. As a family, we love anything Disney whether that be watching movies or visiting Cinderella’s Castle! I also enjoy holidays with my two dogs Milo (a cocker spaniel) and Slinky (a miniature dachshund).

In Cedar class we are lucky to be joined by Mrs Hawkins and Mrs Tyrrell who are the class teaching assistants.

Dean Academy PE Tournament

On Wednesday 14th May 2025, the children in Year 5 visited Dean Academy to take part in a mixed sports tournament. The children played tag rugby, kick rounders and football and they all really enjoyed themselves. All children took part to the best of their ability, showed great team spirit and teamwork. The children enjoyed speaking to the Dean Academy students, finding out about school life and the possibility of great trips abroad.

Well done Year 5 and a huge thank you to the staff and pupils at The Dean Academy for making us feel so welcome!

Viney Hill Residential trip

The children had a wonderful time during their recent residential trip to Viney Hill. The children tried their hand at the climbing wall, crate stacking, tunnels, archery, bushcraft, low ropes, team building and navigation. We are so proud of them all, they tried their best, showed perseverance and resilience when it became tough but most importantly, they had a great time! A huge thank you to Miss Walding, Hayley and Mrs Griffin for taking them on such a valuable experience!

Dean Academy visitor:

Year 5 were joined by a mathematics teacher from The Dean Academy on Wednesday 2nd April. They had so much fun and really engaged with all of the activities, showing off a range of maths skills they have learnt this year, factors, multiples and even prime numbers. They also learnt about the Fibonacci sequence and the relevance it has in everyday life. Well done Year 5!

Rugby lessons

We have been enjoying weekly rugby lessons, the children have been developing their side passes (remembering to pass backwards which is very challenging) as well as creating the correct rugby formations. We have played some tag style games to try and get into the mindset of 'tagging'. We have also started to play tag rugby, remembering to only tag when our friend has the ball. Our skills are improving week on week. Well done Year 5!

DT doodler investigation.

As part of our DT project this term, we are creating 'doodlers', little electronic machines that doodle on the page! We have investigated the doodlers and how they work, what tools make them work the best and ways we can adapt them. We will be making our own doodlers in the last week of term. Keep an eye out on the website for our final doodlers!

Finished doodlers!
We had a great afternoon just before half term making our doodlers, I’m sure you’ll agree that they are fantastic! Well done year 5!

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Science Day

We all had great fun on science day, we spent the morning investigating lots of different science concepts and made quite a lot of mess! We started the morning off by making plastic out of milk! Yes, you read correctly, plastic with milk! It was very smelly but it did work! We mixed warm milk and white vinegar together and then drained the fluid to leave a crumbly mixture, we then manipulated the mixture into different shapes!

We also looked at the reaction caused by mixing milk, washing up liquid and food colouring, it made some remarkable patterns in the milk!

We also made our own mini rainbows using water, pens and paper towels. We had a lot of fun!

World Book Day 2025

We enjoyed World Book Day, dressing up as our favourite book characters or in comfy pyjamas! We spent the day listening to great stories, making bookmarks, designing new front covers, designing story related games and talking about our favourite stories and why we love them so much. We had so much fun enjoying the world of stories!