Year 5 have had another lovely week and have continued to work hard. The focus of our class worships this week have been about putting others first. Jesus said, “If anyone wants to be great in God’s eyes, they must put others first.” Year 5 have prayed for all those who help us and they have thought carefully of ways that they can put others first at home, at school and other places they go.

This week we’ve also joined CAFOD’s Eyes of the world campaign to help fight the climate crisis. In November the eyes of the world will be on us as Britain hosts world leaders for the United Nations' climate change talks – COP26. They will make important decisions that will shape the future of our global family and so we have joined CAFOD’s campaign to call on the Prime Minister to support the world's poorest communities affected by the climate crisis. As Pope Francis says in Laudato Si’, “The cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor are one.” We must stand together with those who are being affected by the climate emergency around the world, so that world leaders cannot ignore our united voices. To show our support to the campaign, in art today the children have created their eyes of the world pictures.

Our learning this week…

In English we have been looking closely at how Jeremy Strong tells the story using a mixture of description and dialogue to move the story forward. We have had a go at writing our own dialogues which reveal details about the story.

Our focus in maths has been reading, writing, comparing, ordering and rounding numbers up to 100,000.

In RE, in light of teaching about how the world began and taking both the Scientific view and Theological views into account, the children have written their answer to the question.

This week in our space topic in Science, the children have been looking at how the rotation of the Earth allows us to have day and night. Ask your child to explain it to you, to see how much they’ve remembered.

This week in our computing lesson the children learnt about the five different Mars Rovers that have been sent to Mars to collect data. They also learnt that each Mars Rover that has been sent has a greater amount of Random Access Memory (RAM) which has enabled the Rover to carry out more instructions in a row. To finish our lesson the children played a game that simulates programming a Mars Rover.

In our geography unit the children have been set the challenge to plan a trip that takes a group of travellers from the north of North America to the southern most tip of South America. This week the children have been using atlases to locate the countries within North and South America and have begun identifying places to send the travellers based on their particular interests.

During our Bounce Forward session we focused on the Basics potion of the Resilience framework (click on link to see the framework) and considered which of the ‘ingredients’ we can take responsibility for. We then focused in on getting enough sleep and thought about what helps us get to sleep and what prevents us getting to sleep at night. Year 5 all agreed that when they don’t get enough sleep it makes them less resilient and they aren’t as happy. It is recommended that children of their age should be getting between 9 and 10 hours sleep at night.

In PE we are lucky enough to be working with a PE specialist called Erin from Blackpool Football Club Community Trust. The focus of our lessons has been attacking and defending and this week’s PE Premier League Primary Star awards went to…

Star of the week - Tyler

Be connected award - Ebony

Be ambitious award - Summer

Bedrock Competition!

A big well done to those children who have already logged on to Bedrock at home as part of this week’s homework. As you can see below, Bedrock have launched a new prize draw competition with some fantastic prizes to win. 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 from now till the 24th October. 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 at the end this half term. Good luck Year 5!