Welcome back after the Easter holidays. I hope you all had a wonderful Holy week and enjoyed your time together. We’ve had a lovely week back in school and the children have worked really hard…
Our learning this week…
English - This week we have begun a new unit, which is a modern retelling of a myth. We’ve looked at the similarities and differences between the stories and have been working on complex sentences with relative clause.
Maths - The focus this week has been on multiplying fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers and finding fractions of amounts.
RE - In the parable of the Lost Son, the children have identified the important message and have explored who the Father and the Son represent and what the the story tells us about them.
Geography - This week the children have learnt about the cause of floods and its impact on people and the environment. The children have also used an atlas to locate and name the largest rivers in the world and have identified the source and the mouth of each river.
Computing - The children have had fun this week learning about a device called a Micro:bit. They explored the blocks within the code editor to create a simple animation.
Spanish - Our new unit is El cafe and we’ve started to learn new words and phrases that can be used when ordering food and drink in a cafe.
PE - This week the children used their orienteering skills to navigate around a course to find the names of Greek Gods.
Resilient moves
Thank you for sharing your resilient moves this week…
Please continue to send in photos of yourselves making resilient moves to year5@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk so we can see what you’ve been up to.
Our award winners:
Golden Award - Kayden
Writing Award - Lennon
Maths Award - Adam
Year 5 Star Winner -
Bedrock competition
As you can see, Bedrock have launched this new prize draw competition with some fantastic prizes. You have all been entered into this competition and for a chance of winning, you just need to collect 120 or more points using Bedrock. If you go to the dashboard on your Bedrock account, you will find details of how you can collect points. Remember, you need to complete at least one Bedrock lesson for homework but to earn more points you can do more. However, please do not complete more than one lesson per day to ensure vocabulary retention. In addition to Bedrock’s competition, we will also have our own in class Bedrock competition too. The member of our class who has the most Bedrock points by the end of half term will win a prize. Good luck Year 5!
Well done Year 5, you’ve made a good start to this half term! Please see the homework page for this week’s homework. Homework will need to be completed before Thursday, when I will check your results. Hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Connolly
