It’s feeling like Christmas in Year 5 this week and it has really lifted everyone’s spirits. We have our Christmas trees up, twinkly fairy lights are lit and our advent wreath candles and Nativity set are in place. Last Sunday marked the first Sunday in Advent, which symbolises Hope with the “Prophet’s Candle” reminding us that Jesus is coming. On Monday, Father Frank came into school to mark the start of Advent and explained the meaning of Advent and the wreath. The children have all made their advent promises, which we linked to scripture, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” Please ask your child about their advent promise.
Our award winners:
Golden Award (CARE) - Cameron
Writing Award - Amara
Maths Award - Jacob
Our learning this week…
In English, we’ve been looking at how to construct complex sentences and have been writing sentences including relative clauses. We’ve also been adding subordinating conjunctions to create subordinate clauses at the beginning and end of sentences.
In maths we have been converting improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa. They’ve also been comparing and ordering fractions less than one.
In RE, the children have written their own psalm using Psalm 23, which was written by King David and used as a model of prayer.
This week’s prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Archer and Luna. In their liturgy, they were thinking about being ready and staying awake for Jesus. In the Bible reading, Jesus tells us that we don’t know the exact time when He will come back, so we have to be prepared and live in a way that shows we follow Him every day. This means being kind, honest, and loving, not just waiting but doing our best now. Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”
Jesus wants us to live each day with love and kindness so we are ready when He comes. Let’s try to follow Him in everything we do.
“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.
Matthew 24: 42
In Science, the children have explored the effect of friction and have used Newton meters to find out the force applied.
We began our work in DT today. The topic is vehicles and the children were challenged to make a chassis with some materials...
In geography, the children have been investigating the link between latitude and climate. The children have looked at climate graphs of places in the Americas and have identified the climate .
In Spanish, the children have continued to put into practice their knowledge gained of dates and sharing their birthday, over the last few months, through reading, writing, speaking and listening.
In PE the children are working with PE specialist Max from Blackpool Football Club Community Trust. The focus of PE this half term is tennis.
At Our Lady's we like to support our parents/carers in Online Safety matters.
Keeping children and young people safe online is one of the biggest challenges facing society today and it is all of our responsibility to ensure that children are educated to make positive, informed choices when they are online.
This month’s online safety guide gives helpful advice about…
What Parents & Educators Need to Know about Electrical Safety and Devices. Helpful tips to help adults support children and young people in the responsible and safe use of everyday electrical devices.
We hope you find these guides informative and helpful in promoting the positive use of technology to make the online world a better and safer place for us all. Thank you.
To read this week’s Good News Gospel reading, please follow the link to share the Gospel at home with your family. These are really child-friendly resources to share at home. Good News Gospel
Please also have a look at this Parent Newsletter linked with our weekly whole school and class worship…
Thursday 11th December Caterlink Christmas Dinner Day and Christmas Jumper Day
Friday 12th December Christmas Fair (after school)
Monday 15th December Peter Pan Pantomime at Lowther Pavilion. Payment can be paid on ParentPay.
Thursday 18th December KS2 Carol Service 2pm in Church
Friday 19th December School closes for Christmas at an earlier time of 2pm (no After School Club).
Tuesday 6th January 2026 School reopens
Another good week, Year 5. Well done and I hope you all have a great weekend!
Mrs McVey and Mrs Hodgkiss