Well what a wonderful end to a great term! I am so proud of Year 5, it has been an unusual time for everyone but they’ve worked so hard, shown great resilience and have really shone their lights this Advent. Thank you parents for your continued support with your child’s learning.
This time of year we would normally hold our annual KS2 Christmas Carol Concert. Although we couldn’t do this in church this year, Year’s 4, 5 and 6 got together to celebrate this special time and share this with you. We hope you enjoy it as much as the children enjoyed taking part. A special thank you goes to Father Jim who very kindly put all our videos together for us - Thank you Father Jim!
Thursday afternoon the children were treated to a virtual pantomime of Cinderella and they absolutely loved it! Thank you to our wonderful PTFA for organising it and for the lovely treats that the children had whilst watching.
Year 5 Achievements
Our Reading Champions…
Well done to our reading champions this half term who all completed bookmarks (some completed 2!) for reading regularly at home. Reading is so important and I ask parents to continue to encourage your child to read regularly at home (at least 20 minutes per day) and get their diary signed.
When the children read regularly, golden tickets are given out and then we do a draw at the end of each half term. Well done to Evie and Adam who are our golden ticket winners and have won a prize.
This week Evie received her Bronze award for clarinet. Miss Benson was very proud of her and so were we. Well done Evie!
Year 5 Stars
This week’s Year 5 Star is Brodie .
Our overall Year 5 star winner for Autumn term was Elliot. Elliot regularly tops our weekly leader board for the most dojo points received and over the term has collected an amazing 727 points. Well done Elliot!
Thank you to those of you who shared your resilient moves with us this week…
This week’s resilient moves challenge, from the Resilience framework, are:
1 - Find time for your interests. (Coping)
2- When times are tough, remember tomorrow is a new day. (Coping)
Please email me any photos of resilient moves you make over the Christmas holidays (for the two above or any others!). We look forward to seeing them and sharing them in the new year.
On Wednesday was Christmas dinner day and the children were treated to festive music and Christmas crackers…
Online Safety
Access to new technology over the winter period can provide new opportunities for children and young people but also present risks. Thinkuknow have published a Parent guide which looks at how you can support your child to be safer online this season by focusing on 3 key areas: viewing, sharing, chatting and friending. Please click on the link to take a look at how you can keep your child safe online.
Christmas is a time for giving and thinking of others and I just wanted to share this photograph of Evie and her sister Charlotte who have organised a collection for the Streetlife homeless charity in Blackpool. It is the third year the girls have made hampers and this year they managed to beat last year’s target and made 22 hampers! What a fantastic example of helping and showing loving concern for others this Christmas. Congratulations girls, this is amazing!
We wish you all a wonderful happy and Holy Christmas 🎄and we hope you all stay safe and well and have a great start to the New Year. See you all in the new year!
Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Connolly
