This week Year 5 were really excited to meet their Reception buddies. They gave them a special welcome letter and a wooden heart with their name on to introduce themselves. Year 5 will be developing their leadership roles this year and as part this, they will not only be role models to their buddies to Reception but also play leaders to KS1.
Year 5 have had another great week of learning. The children have settled well and are really getting into the swing of things. Many of them have earned themselves lots of house points already because of their great attitude, focused learning, effort and great work. We’re now checking diaries and all bookmarks have now been updated . I’m so pleased to see so many have already read and are getting their diaries signed each night - house points are also rewarded for this. Well done Year 5, keep that up!
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 award winners:
Golden Award (LEARN) - Emily
Writing Award - Elsie
Maths Award - Alexander
Our learning this week…
In English the children have explored new vocabulary from our text and they have turned the 1969 lunar landing transcript into punctuated speech.
Our focus in maths has been rounding numbers up to 5-digits to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. We learnt a little rhyme to help us remember the rules for rounding.
In RE the children have been working with Mrs Mannix. They have discussed the Scientific view of how the World began and also listened to the Creation story from Genesis 1 (Theological view) In science we have been considering different types of evidence, both direct and indirect evidence, for the shape of our Earth.
This week’s prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Callum and Florence. The theme of their liturgy was Be open In the Gospel (Mark 7:31-37) , Jesus helps a man by healing him and this showed that Jesus cares for everyone and we can go to him for help. The children challenged the children to think about how Jesus can help them this week.
“Ephphatha!" Mark 7:31-37
In science we have been considering different types of evidence, both direct and indirect evidence, for the shape of our Earth.
In geography the children have begun to think about what we know already about our local area.
In Spanish we have been recapping what we have been learning in Spanish over the last two years and we focused on greeting each other.
In art we continued to investigate the work of Hundertwasser and worked on copying his style.
In PSHE, we have 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. Our definition of resilience is the ability to bounce back when things get tough.
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…
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 Tuesday ready for spelling and times table tests.
Bikeability
Please read and sign the forms as soon as possible and send back into school so that I can confirm numbers and allocate dates. Please be clear on your form whether your child will need to borrow a bike. Thanks for your support.
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, 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.
