It’s feeling like Christmas in Year 5 this week and it has really lifted everyone’s spirits. We have our Christmas trees up (including one on the window made out of the children’s handprints), twinkly fairy lights are lit and our advent wreath candles and Nativity set are in place. It has been a really lovely week starting each day opening our interactive advent calendar from Cafod, sharing the Scripture of the day (read by the children) and saying our special advent prayer…

Our learning this week:

English - This week the children have been writing their adventure stories and have also been editing their work to make it better.

Maths - The focus this week has been using a protractor to measure angles accurately and they have been identifying the different angles: acute, right angles, obtuse and reflex.

RE - This week the children have explored the covenant that God made with Moses and have looked at the trust and faith that he had in God, which influenced his decision. The children used the Bible to record the key points of the conversation between God and Moses.

Science - The children have been identifying the effects of friction on different surfaces and have investigated those which have high friction and those with low friction.

Art - The children have been introduced to the work of Hundertwasser this week and have used a viewfinder to select and draw a section of one of his images. Take a look at their initial drawings…

DT - We started our DT work this week and the children were set a challenge to make a simple chassis using just card, dowling, 4 wheels and masking tape. Take a look at their efforts…

Thank you to those of you who shared their resilient moves with us this week…

This week’s resilient moves challenge, from the Resilience framework, are:

1 - Get some fresh air and exercise (Basics)

2- Eat a healthy diet (Basics)

Our award winners:

Golden Award - Nevaeh

Writing Award - Grace

Maths Award - Jacob

Year 5 Star Winner - Isabella

Well done to some of our instrumentalists who have achieved their bronze medal during the last couple of weeks. Miss Benson was very proud of them and so are we…