We’ve had a lovely full week in Year 5 this week. It has been so great to see how quickly the children have settled into Year 5 and have adapted to their new class routines. I am so proud of all of you!
On Wednesday, for the first time in almost two years, KS2 were able to go across to Church to take part in mass to celebrate "The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary”. Again I am so proud of the behaviour of the children - they all showed great reverence, listened well and took part in the responses. It felt very special to be back all together in church to celebrate Our Lady’s birthday, our patron saint, but also because sadly it will be the last time that Father Jim would conduct a mass for us in Our Lady’s Church. During mass the children were able to present Father Jim with a gift to say thank you for everything that he has done for us whilst he has been our parish priest and we will miss him dearly.
Our learning this week…
In English we have begun looking at stories by the author Jeremy Strong. This week the children have read “This is not a fairy tale” and they have begun identifying the key features of his style of writing and have compared this to other extracts of his stories.
In Maths the focus has been on place value.and the children have been reading and writing 5-digit numbers and recognising the value of each digit.
In RE we have been discussing how the world began and have compared their own views against those of their learning partner.
In Science we will be learning about aspects of Earth and Space. This week the children have shared their existing knowledge of this topic and they took part in a Space quiz to see how much they know already.
We have also begun a resilience programme called Bounce Forward as part of our PSHE lessons. Bounce Forward, written by Lancashire Mind and Headstart, is a universal resilience programme, which has been designed to increase wellbeing and resilience in children across Blackpool. Bounce Forward will give the children the opportunity to improve and build up their resilience strategies and skills, in a practical and fun way. This week the focus was sharing information about themselves and thinking about what resilience is.
On Tuesday the children began their swimming sessions and we were delighted with the way they conducted themselves and represented our school. They made a fabulous start to their lessons and this enabled their swimming teachers to get them sorted into swimming groups quickly and begin working on their new swimming techniques. Well done Year 5!
Our Computing topic this half term is all about the Mars Rover and this week the children have learnt about the automated motor vehicle and have explored how and why the Mars Rover transfers data. To get an idea of the distance that the Mars Rover had to travel, the children also researched the distance to Mars based on the length of other objects, such as Big Ben, the length of a blue whale, the length of a double decker bus, and the length of an Olympic sized swimming pool.
The focus of our Spanish lesson was a recap of previous learning. It’s lovely to see that Year 5 have not lost their enthusiasm for speaking a different language! ¡Qúe bien!🇪🇸
Our award winners:
Golden Award - Maia
Maths Award - Ebony
Writing Award -
Homework
A reminder that a summary of this week’s homework can be found on the Year 5 homework page. Please make sure homework is completed by Monday ready for spelling and times table tests on Tuesday morning
Well done Year 5, you’ve all worked hard this week. We hope you all have a lovely weekend and we’ll see you on Monday.
Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Frost
If you need to contact me or have any questions/queries, please contact me on year5@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk and I will try to get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks.
