Can you believe it that we’re already half way through Year 5? I know I can’t! Time is flying and we’ve done so much already. The children are working hard and achieving so much. Well done Year 5 for all your hard work and I hope you all enjoy your well deserved half term holiday! 😊
Edina plant project
Thank you for looking after your bulbs over the holidays! We are part of a science investigation led by the Edina project. Your child’s pot contains a daffodil bulb on one side (indicated by the letter d) and a crocus bulb (indicated by the letter c). Alongside temperature and rainfall that we have been measuring each day, when one of the bulbs flowers, we need to record the date it flowered and the height from the soil. The pot needs to be placed outside in the garden and checked on each day to see if it has flowered. Please do not water it.
If your flowers bloom, please record it and bring the information back to school when you return so we can upload it to the national database.
Daffodil Date flowered ___________________ Height (mm) ________
Crocus Date flowered ___________________ Height (mm) ________
Please bring your pot back after half term as the investigation will carry on for a few months.
If you weren’t able to take your pot over the holidays, please don’t worry - I will take all remaining pots home with me.
Thank you for your support in this.
St Bede’s trip
We all had a great time at St Bede’s on Wednesday, the Lion King performance was great - so many talented young people. Year 5 really enjoyed the performance and they behaved so well. Thank you for contributing to the cost of the coach, your support is very much appreciated. After half term, I will be writing to you of details of another exciting trip that we are planning, which will take place in March!
Our award winners:
Golden Award (LEARN) - Alexander
Writing Award - Dominic
Maths Award - Lily T
Our Reading champions
Well done to our reading champions this half term, who all completed bookmarks for reading regularly at home. Don’t forget to keep up with your reading regularly and get your diaries signed. We will update bookmarks after half term.
When the children read regularly, we give them extra points for reading and then we do a draw at the end of each half term. Well done to Lily T, who is our golden ticket winner for this half term.
Bedrock Competition!
Well done to all of Year 5 who achieved 160 points or more on Bedrock over this last half term. I wish you all luck for the Bedrock prize draw, which will be drawn on 18th February! A big congratulations goes to our class Bedrock Champion, Hallie, and well done to all the other children on our TOP 5 scoreboard!
Here is our TOP 5 winners on the scoreboard :
1 Hallie 419 points ⭐️Bedrock Champion ⭐️
2 Kurt 298 points
3 Gabriel 257 points
4 Layla 158 points
5 Lily T 155 points
Our learning this week…
In English the children have been planning and writing their own first person narrative setting.
In maths the children have been using factors to solve problems and been working on square numbers.
In RE we have learnt about how Jesus described a true disciple. We then looked at 1 Corinthians 13, where St Paul explains what Jesus meant by love. We read about the inspirational Saint, Saint Damien, and the children thought of examples of how he lived out this teaching.
“Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offence, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.” (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
This week’s prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Darcy, Elsie, Emelia and James. Their liturgy was on the theme of Let Us Pray based on the reading from Mark 1: 29-39 . In the reading Jesus was invited to Simon and Andrew’s house. The children challenged the class to practise inviting Jesus to come to us in prayer, take us by the hand and help us. The children then wrote their own prayers.
“Everyone is looking for you!” Mark 1:37
In Science the children have been learning about the life cycles of mammals - placental, monotreme and marsupial mammals.
In PE the children are working with PE specialist Erin from Blackpool Football Club Community Trust. The focus of their lessons this half term is gymnastics.
In computing the children have used the micro-bit as a polling program to record people’s feelings about a topic.
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.
On Tuesday we celebrated Safer Internet day, which takes place every year with thousands of people across the UK working together to champion youth voice and engage in conversations about how we can all work together to make the internet a great and safe place. This year’s theme was ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online’.
For more information, click on the link Safer Internet Day for parents/carers
This month’s online safety guide gives helpful advice about…
What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Monkey - This free online safety guide examines the video chat service Monkey, highlighting several risks and suggesting ways to minimise them.
We hope you find this guide informative and helpful in promoting the positive use of technology to make the online world a better and safer place for us all.
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…
Hope you all have a lovely half term!
Mrs McVey, Mrs McCooey and Miss Evans
