Year 5 have had another lovely week and have continued to work hard. It’s been lovely to get to know your children and see their strengths shining through. As you know, last week the children officially met their Reception Buddies. Miss Heim-Sarac was so impressed with the children last week so this afternoon we all went down to Reception so that they could spend some time together and then accompany their Buddies to their very first assembly. We’re so proud of the children and in assembly the children all received their Buddy badges. Well done Year 5!
Our learning this week…
In English Year 5 have explored Shakespeare’s play “Twelfth Night” in preparation for next week’s visit from the RSC who will be performing the play in our school hall. The children have immersed into the story, the households and the characters through freeze frames and drama.
In Maths the children have applied their understanding of the place value of numbers up to 100,000 to represent and partition them in different ways work. They have also been using number lines to 100,000 and identified numbers that are between two points (for example multiples of 10,000), using mathematical language to describe the position.
In RE the children have discussed the Scientific view of how the World began and also listened to the Creation story from Genesis 1 (Theological view) and have made their own Creation wheel as a reminder of the story.
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.
In music the children listened to “We will rock you” by Queen and have compared it to “Livin’ on a prayer”. The children have been learning to find the pulse and playing games to develop understanding of rhythm and pitch.
In PE this week, Year 5 began their Buddies Leadership programme delivered by Erin, who worked with the children last year in PE. The aim of the programme is to support the children in developing their leadership skills so that they can work as a small team to deliver lunch time activities to their Reception Buddies and to KS1 children. This week the children worked together in small groups as a team to play a ball game and came up with their own rules.
Our award winners:
Golden Award - Avie
Writing Award - Bobby
Maths Award - Oscar
Year 5 Star Winner - Rion
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 140 or more points ( at least 20 points each week) using Bedrock from now till the 23rd 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!
Don’t forget that Year 5’s homework for this week is on the Year 5 homework tab or folllow this link https://www.ourladyassumption-sch.co.uk/yr5-homework
Next week…
Unfortunately, Thursday’s Leadership workshop this week had to be cancelled due to the rain, but will now take place next Thursday instead. Therefore, the children will now need to wear their PE kits Monday through to Thursday next week. (Monday will be our other Leadership workshop, Tuesday is swimming, Wednesday PE and Thursday’s Leadership workshop - it’s going to be a busy week!)
Have a great weekend!
Mrs McVey, Miss Evans, Mrs McCooey and Mrs Hodgkiss
