I can hardly believe that we are only a week away from half term. We’ve had another great week in Year 5 and I continue to be impressed with the efforts of the children both at home and at school. Yesterday we were able to give out more golden tickets to our reading champions who read regularly and get their diaries signed. Next week will be giving out the reading certificates for those who have already completed their first bookmarks for reading in Year 5 and we will also be picking out our Golden ticket winner to celebrate who our overall reading champion for this half term is.
I also want to applaud those children who are using Bedrock regularly at home, it’s great to see their enthusiasm - the scores show the children are making great progress with their vocabulary! In addition to Bedrock and the other sites Year 5 have access to, school has now subscribed to IXL for the whole of KS2. At the moment we only have access to IXL maths but hopefully we should have access to IXL English soon. This afternoon Year 5 have come home with a letter about the website and they have copies of their log in details attached to the letter and stuck into their reading diaries. As always the Year 5 homework page here on the website details the homework for this week and you will notice that this week’s maths homework is to be completed on IXL (the skill they need to complete is detailed there). English homework will be on Education City as usual. Please see homework page for full details of homework..
Learning this week…
In English this week the focus has been on biographies. They have read and analysed the features of biographies based on Jeremy Strong and Year 5 are now planning their own biography on the author Anthony Horowitz.
In maths Year 5 have been working on a few different skills. They have been measuring to the nearest millimetre using a ruler and have also converted units of measure (mm to cm and cm to m) and they have also been working out the perimeters of shapes. Towards the end of this week our focus has been on formal subtraction methods and using the inverse to check our answers.
In RE the children have been thinking about how we can be good stewards of Creation by looking after the World that God created just like he wanted us too. They have thought about the things they can do to protect the environment and also how they can care and show love for each other and for vulnerable groups.
In science the children have learnt all about the movement of all the planets relative to the Sun and have named and ordered them. Ask them about the planets and remind them of their mnemonics they wrote to help them remember the order of the planets. Here’s one: My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming PLANETS. Can they remember some facts about the planets?
In geography the children had to find the latitude and longitude of our seven destinations through North and South America using an atlas.
In Spanish Year 5 we have played games to recap the names of 2D shapes and colours and they learnt some new vocabulary to do with position and direction.
Our award winners:
Golden Award - Evie
Writing Award - Kourtney
Maths Award - Nevaeh
Year 5 Star Winner -
Next week, we would normally have our teacher parent meetings but due to restrictions we are unable to do so face to face. Instead, next Friday you will receive a mid-term report for your child by email. If you need to contact me regarding your child’s report, I will be available that day. My class email address is : year5@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk
Another great week Year 5, we hope you have a lovely weekend with your families.
Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Connolly
