Well done Year 5, we’ve had a super half term and you’ve all worked so hard. Hope you all have a lovely well deserved rest and be proud of what you have achieved this half term!
Please remember your map of your route to school on the first day back after half term, this will support your geography work. Thank you!
Mad Science workshops
This morning we were treated to a whole school science show, called Mission to Mars, led by Erica from a company called Mad Science. The show was full of experiments to show different concepts related to travel to Mars…
Year 5 then had their own workshop called Space: The Final Frontier where they made bubble galaxies, explored how meteorites make craters and how planets are formed. We had a great Science morning …
The 'Spring Bulbs for Schools' project with the Edina Trust
This morning Year 5 planted their bulbs, daffodils and crocuses, in their own pot and placed them in one of our school garden areas. Over the next five and a half months the children will be watching over their bulbs to see when they first flower and to collect rainfall and temperature data daily to send off to the Edina Trust. Schools all over the UK are taking part and our data will be collated with theirs to contribute to finding out the effects of climate change. Take a look at our photos…
Our award winners:
Golden Award (CARE) - Willow
Writing Award - Year 5
Maths Award - Leo
Our Reading Champions
Well done to our reading champions this half term, who all completed bookmarks for reading regularly at home. Let’s see if next half term we can see more reading champions. Don’t forget to keep up with your reading regularly and get your diaries signed.
Our learning this week…
In English we’ve been planning and writing our own exploration narrative. The children have all worked so hard on their writing, I can’t wait to read them!
Our focus in maths has been rounding numbers to 1,000,000 and learning about negative numbers and their relationship with positive numbers.
In RE the children have been working with Mrs Mannix on the Creation story.
This week’s prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Conleth and William. The theme of their liturgy was For us. In this week’s Gospel story of the rich young man, Jesus tells us how difficult it is to enter the Kingdom of Heaven when we have many possessions. In this liturgy, the children were encouraged to think about what is, and what is not, truly valuable in their lives.
“With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.” Mark 10:27
In geography the children have been learning to use and identify six-figure grid references on an ordnance survey map of Blackpool.
In art the children have been experimenting by working in the negative by using rubbers to remove graphite work.
In PE the children are working with PE specialist Charlie from Blackpool Football Club Community Trust. The focus of their lessons this half term is all about leadership and being a good buddy to develop their skills for their role as play leader.
Well done Year 5 for all your efforts in swimming, you’re all doing really well. The swimming teachers all encourage you to get to the swimming pool over half term, which is free at Palatine, and at Moor Park Bispham, Monday to Friday (see below).
Our school is currently in 3rd place out of 12 schools in the trust. Well done Our Lady’s, an amazing effort! Overall, we have scored 178,994 and the competition will end at 4pm today.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
1st Aibhin Year 5. 26,207 points. 🏆⭐️ School Champion 🏆⭐️
2nd Alexander Year 5 21,332 points
3rd Olivia Year 5 19,610 points
4th Conleth Year 5 15,604 points
5th Natalia Year 5 14,666 points
Well done to everyone on our leaderboard this week!👏🏻🏆
At Our Lady's we like to support our parents/carers in Online Safety matters.
Keeping children and young people safe online is one of the biggest challenges facing society today and it is all of our responsibility to ensure that children are educated to make positive, informed choices when they are online.
This month’s online safety guide gives helpful advice about…
What Parents & Educators Need to Know about Horror films and Age Ratings. This free guide explores the risks of children being exposed to horror films and other age-inappropriate content – letting you know how to safeguard young people against this material.
We hope you find these guides informative and helpful in promoting the positive use of technology to make the online world a better and safer place for us all. Thank you.
To read this week’s Good News Gospel reading, please follow the link to share the Gospel at home with your family. These are really child-friendly resources to share at home. Good News Gospel
Please also have a look at this Parent Newsletter linked with our weekly whole school and class worship…
Tuesday 29th October Back to school
Friday 15th November KS2 Autumn disco
Friday 6th December Christmas Fayre
Thursday 19th December Festive party clothes day
Well done for all your hard work this half term, you’ve made a great start to Year 5 - well done! Have a great half term everyone and we’ll see you all back in school on Tuesday 29th October!.
Mrs McVey, Mrs Hodgkiss and Miss Andrew
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.
