All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:4

I can’t believe that we’re already at this point in the year. When we return to school, we will only have six more weeks together and then the children will be moving on to begin their final year at Our Lady’s in Year 6. I’m so proud of how hard the children have worked so far this year and I know they will continue to work hard in their final half term of Year 5. 👏🏻🌟

This Sunday, May 23rd, the Church celebrates Pentecost, one of the most important feast days of the year that concludes the Easter season and celebrates the beginning of the Church. Pentecost occurs 50 days after the death and resurrection of Jesus, and ten days after his ascension into heaven. When the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles, they preached the Good News of Jesus Christ. Miraculously, people of many different languages and nations could understand the Apostles in their own languages. This miracle reflected God’s desire for the Gospel to be preached to all, and for all the peoples of the earth to be united in faith.

Our learning this week…

English - This week the children have been looking at the features of recounts and have written a newspaper recount of a heroic teenager for a Year 3 audience.

Maths - The focus of our maths work this week has been adding and subtracting decimals.

RE - This week we the children have been recounting Jesus’s Resurrection and have written it in the style of a newspaper report.

History - This week the children have been finding out what the Maya writing system consists of, how words are constructed and what codices are.

Computing - This week the children finished off their coding of a pedometer.Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t that good so the children were'n’t able to go out and try them out, so they’ll try them after half term.

Spanish - The children practised their cafe role plays and showed off their great accents to order items from a menu.

PSHE - Today we focused on what hope means and reflected on how being grateful and hopeful can make us more resilient. We made positivity glasses to remind us to have a positive outlook on things when we face challenges and to bounce forward through tough times.

PE - The children continued navigating around a grid of cones using different maps and adding up as they went along. They’re all getting really good at this.
ART - We’ve taken part in a couple of competitions this weeks. The first was the Royal Mail’s Heroes Stamp Design Competition, honouring the heroes of the coronavirus pandemic (See the children’s entries below). The second one was Broomhead’s Estate Agents competition - they are celebrating their 40th birthday - where the children had to design their dream house.

Year 5 Achievements

Our Reading Champions…

Well done to our reading champions this half term who all completed bookmarks for reading regularly at home. I won’t be setting homework over half term but as reading is so important, I ask parents to continue to encourage your child to read regularly at home (at least 20 minutes per day) and get their diary signed.

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When the children read regularly, golden tickets are given out and then we do a draw at the end of each half term. Well done to Brodie and Lennon who are our golden ticket winners and have won a prize.

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Bedrock Competition

Well done to all of Year 5 who achieved 120 points or more on Bedrock over this last half term. I wish you all luck for the Bedrock prize draw! A big congratulations goes to our Bedrock Champion, Hallie, and all the other children on our TOP 5 scoreboard. Well done!

Here is our TOP 5 on the scoreboard this week:

1 Hallie 273 points ⭐️Bedrock Champion ⭐️

2 Declan 247 points

3 Eliza 236 points

4 Elliot 231 points

5 Theo 229 points

Our award winners:

Golden Award - Hallie

Writing Award - Sam

Maths Award - Laciee

Year 5 Star Winner - Laciee

Notices

  • School reopens on Monday 7th June at the normal start time of 8.40am

You’ve all worked so hard this week Year 5, well done! Hope you all have a lovely half term holiday!

Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Connolly

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"After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God." Mark 16:19

Yesterday was the Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Jesus’s ascension into heaven, which is celebrated forty days after his Resurrection. As a whole school, we took part in this special celebration by joining in with Father Jim’s Mass via video link from our classrooms. I am so proud of how Year 5 joined in with the mass so respectfully. Well done Year 5!

Our learning this week…

English - This week the children have been writing, and editing, their diary entries from the point of view of Billy, the main character of the story ‘Bling!’.

Maths - The focus of our maths work this week has been finding equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages.

RE - This week we have been reflecting on what it means to experience forgiveness. We have looked at stories from the Bible which tell us about Jesus’s teachings on forgiveness and have looked at events where Jesus showed us how to forgive.

Science - The focus of our Science lesson this week was electrical conductors. The children identified materials that were electrical conductors and insulators and then they investigated different types of metals to see which was the best electrical conductor. The children then presented their findings to the class.

History - This week the children have identified a range of evidence sources, both primary and secondary, to help them understand more about the Maya civilisation.

Computing - Using their growing knowledge of the code blocks within the micro-bit editor, the children have programmed their micro-bit to make a pedometer.

Spanish - This week the children have been writing sentences in Spanish related to our Café theme. ¡Bravo Year 5!

PSHE - During this lesson we talked about the power of positivity and how it can make us more resilient. The children thought about all the things they are grateful for.

PE - The focus of our orienteering this week was to learn the skill of map orientation using basic diagrams. The children navigated themselves around a grid of cones using their map and adding up as they went along.

Bedrock Competition

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Don’t forget the Bedrock competition for a chance to win an amazing prize (see poster above). There will also be an in-class prize for the Year 5 who has the most points by the end of term.

Here is our TOP 5 on the scoreboard this week:

1 Hallie 200 points

2 Declan 175 points

3 Eliza 154 points

4 Laciee 145 points

5 Elliot 144 points

Well done to our TOP 5 who have already made it into the Bedrock prize draw. This next week is your last chance to ensure you’ve earned your 120+ points to be entered into the prize draw above. Let’s see how many points you can earn this week! Who will be our Bedrock Super Star?

Our award winners:

Golden Award - Sienna

Writing Award - Cianna

Maths Award - Brodie

Year 5 Star Winner - 

Notices

  • Year 5 finish school at 3.10pm Monday - Thursday and at 1.05pm on a Friday

  • Reading books and diaries must be brought into school daily. Diaries get checked everyday so that we can reward the children for their reading. I would expect Year 5 to read at home daily for at least 20 minutes.

  • Homework will need to be completed before Thursday, when I will check your results. Please see the homework page for this week’s homework. Parents will be informed if this is not complete.

  • PE days continue to be on a Tuesday and Thursday. No earrings please.

You’ve all worked so hard this week Year 5, well done! Hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Connolly

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¿Qué quieres tomar?

Our learning this week…

English - This week the children have been developing their sentences and description to prepare for their diary writing.

Maths - We’ve been rounding decimal numbers to the nearest tenth and to the nearest whole number. We’ve also been using place value to compare and order decimal numbers and have started looking at percentages.

RE - From our work on the Sacrament of Reconciliation last week, the children have been writing their own guide to this very important Sacrament aimed at children in Year 3 and 4.

History - This week the children learnt that the Ancient Maya civilisation had developed a complex number system and they have been learning how to write and identify the numbers.

Computing - This week the children were presented with code for a micro-bit and they had to predict what the program did - I was very impressed with how well some children did this. The program was a polling program to record the number of different responses to a question. The children then built the code, downloaded it to the micro-bit and then had fun testing it out on each other.

Spanish - In our lesson this week the children role played at being waiter and customer in our Café Olé and showed off their language skills in Spanish. ¡Bravo Y5!

PSHE - This week the children discussed what helps make them happy and then they made their own Feel Good Check List that the children can use to help them become more resilient and bounce forward from tough times.

Bedrock Competition

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Don’t forget the Bedrock competition for a chance to win an amazing prize (see poster above). There will also be an in-class prize for the Year 5 who has the most points by the end of term.

Here is our TOP 5 on the scoreboard this week:

1 Hallie 133 points

2 Eliza 125 points

3 Declan 121 points

4 Laciee 119 points

5 Theo 101 points

Well done and keep it up!

Our award winners:

Golden Award - Isabella

Writing Award - Hallie

Maths Award - Grace

Year 5 Star Winner - 

Congratulations also goes to Grace and Lila who achieved their Silver music medals for the clarinet. Well done girls!

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Notices

  • Year 5 finish school at 3.10pm Monday - Thursday and at 1.05pm on a Friday

  • Reading books and diaries must be brought into school daily. Diaries get checked everyday so that we can reward the children for their reading. I would expect Year 5 to read at home daily for at least 20 minutes.

  • Homework will need to be completed before Thursday, when I will check your results. Please see the homework page for this week’s homework. Parents will be informed if this is not complete.

  • PE days continue to be on a Tuesday and Thursday. No earrings please.

Coming up…

Virtual Pop Idol - Miss Benson sent home letters to those children interested in taking part in the Virtual Pop Idol competition. Please read the letter carefully and send entries by 14th May at 2pm to the email address on the letter. Good luck Year 5!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend Year 5!

Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Connolly

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Our week...

We’ve had another busy week this week and I’m pleased and proud of how hard the children continue to work. They’ve shown resilience in the things they have found difficult and have overcome some difficult challenges which have left them feeling proud of themselves. Well done Year 5!

Our learning this week…

English - We’ve explored how the main character of Bling! has changed over the course of the story this week and have looked at how language in writing can be altered to show status. The children have also been working on creating vivid images that use description and comparison.

Maths - This week we’ve looked at how multiplying fractions and finding fractions of amounts give us the same answer and we have been solving problems involving fractions.

RE -This week the children have been discussing what sin is and how we can show that we are truly sorry for the wrong we do.

Science - Our new topic is all about properties and changes of materials. This week the children have identified the properties of different materials. They have explored the meaning of different properties and have sorted and classified materials based on their properties through testing whether they are: magnetic, transparent, flexible, permeable or hard.

History - This week the children started our unit on the Ancient Maya Civilisation. They placed events of the Maya on a timeline showing their understanding of chronological order through BC and AD and have used atlases to label the area on a map to show where in Central America the Maya used to live

Spanish - This week the children have continued to develop their speaking and listening of words and phrases that can be used when ordering food and drink in a cafe.

PE - This week the children took part in relays as part of a team, which developed their understanding of basic orienteering symbols using a map key. They worked really hard and all teams successfully completed the challenge.

Bedrock Competition

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Don’t forget the Bedrock competition for a chance to win an amazing prize (see poster above). There will also be an in-class prize for the Year 5 who has the most points by the end of term.

Here is our TOP 5 scoreboard so far:

1 Isabelle 66points

2 Hallie 62 points

3 Eliza 57 points

4 Laciee 51 points

5 Declan 49 points

Well done and keep it up!

Our award winners:

Golden Award - Nathaniel

Writing Award - Theo

Maths Award - Isabelle

Year 5 Star Winner - Cianna

Congratulations also goes to Eliza who has achieved her Bronze music medal for the clarinet. Well done Eliza!

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Reminders:

  • Year 5 finish school at 3.10pm Monday - Thursday and at 1.05pm on a Friday

  • Reading books and diaries must be brought into school daily. Diaries get checked everyday so that we can reward the children for their reading. I would expect Year 5 to read at home daily for at least 20 minutes.

  • Homework will need to be completed before Thursday, when I will check your results. Hope you all have a great weekend. Please see the homework page for this week’s homework. Parents will be informed if this is not complete.

  • PE days continue to be on a Tuesday and Thursday. No earrings please.

  • Music tuition is on a Thursday, so please ensure your instrument is in school ready to have your lesson with Miss Benson.

  • As the weather starts to get warmer, please ensure your child brings in their water bottle each day. I would also advise that coats still come into school each day as the weather can be unpredictable and we will all still go outside even on those cold/rainy days.

Another great week Year 5, well done! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Connolly

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“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him" (Parable of the Lost Son, Luke 15:20)

Welcome back after the Easter holidays. I hope you all had a wonderful Holy week and enjoyed your time together. We’ve had a lovely week back in school and the children have worked really hard…

Our learning this week…

English - This week we have begun a new unit, which is a modern retelling of a myth. We’ve looked at the similarities and differences between the stories and have been working on complex sentences with relative clause.

Maths - The focus this week has been on multiplying fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers and finding fractions of amounts.

RE - In the parable of the Lost Son, the children have identified the important message and have explored who the Father and the Son represent and what the the story tells us about them.

Geography - This week the children have learnt about the cause of floods and its impact on people and the environment. The children have also used an atlas to locate and name the largest rivers in the world and have identified the source and the mouth of each river.

Computing - The children have had fun this week learning about a device called a Micro:bit. They explored the blocks within the code editor to create a simple animation.

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Spanish - Our new unit is El cafe and we’ve started to learn new words and phrases that can be used when ordering food and drink in a cafe.

PE - This week the children used their orienteering skills to navigate around a course to find the names of Greek Gods.

Resilient moves

Thank you for sharing your resilient moves this week…

Please continue to send in photos of yourselves making resilient moves to year5@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk so we can see what you’ve been up to.

Our award winners:

Golden Award - Kayden

Writing Award - Lennon

Maths Award - Adam

Year 5 Star Winner - 

Bedrock competition

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As you can see, Bedrock have launched this new prize draw competition with some fantastic prizes. 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. 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. Good luck Year 5!

Well done Year 5, you’ve made a good start to this half term! Please see the homework page for this week’s homework. Homework will need to be completed before Thursday, when I will check your results. Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Connolly

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Goodbye to our ducklings

We have had the most delightful week with our ducklings this week. It has been a joy for all of us to watch our four wonderful ducklings, Puck, Titania, Demetrius and Lysander grow and play this week. Watch our video to see how much they’ve grown and how much they love water!

Year 5 have been very busy this week charting the ducklings growth for our Science work and they’ve learnt quite a bit more of their life cycle . Sadly, the ducklings have now gone to their new home on a farm where they will be able to wander freely with other ducklings. We really are going to miss them as they all have such loveable characters.

Our other learning this week…

English - This week the children have continued to work on the Greek myth Pandora’s box and are now in the process of planning their version of the story from the point of view of Pandora.

Maths - This week we’ve continued to work on adding fractions and also adding mixed numbers.

RE - This week the focus was on how Mary, our Mother, can help us untangle knots of sin.

Geography - We’ve identified how a river changes along its course and we’ve used an atlas to locate the longest rivers in the British Isles.

PE - On Tuesday the children ran the daily mile on our KS2 playground. On Thursday the children played a fast paced Easter themed game called Carrot Quest which uses attacking and defending skills.

Holy Week

Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week with Palm Sunday. Normally we would mark this very special celebration, lead by KS1, in Church and then each day each KS2 class would then lead an assembly each morning to tell the special events of the week. Instead, next week we will explore a part of the Easter story each day next week. We have also been challenged to create two Stations of the Cross which will go into Church next week. I will post photos on the blog next week when they are finished.

Lent Reading Challenge

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I’ve been delighted with how Year 5 have taken on our reading challenge over the last few weeks. It’s been wonderful to see how enthused they’ve been and I’m impressed with how many children have read more than one of our challenge books. Well done Year 5!

Next week is our Book club celebration and we’re really looking forward to having a discussion and sharing our thoughts . Please encourage your child to finish their chosen challenge book if they have not already done so, so that they are able to fully join in. Thank you.

Resilient moves

Thank you for sharing your resilient moves this week…

Please continue to send in photos of you making resilient moves to year5@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk so we can see what you’ve been up to.

Our award winners:

Golden Award - Kourtney

Writing Award - Nevaeh

Maths Award - Cianna

Year 5 Star Winner -

It’s been a great week Year 5, you’ve continued to work hard and I hope you all have a great well deserved weekend.

Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Connolly

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Back together

What a lovely week it has been! It has felt really good to have the class back together and I’ve been really impressed with how the children have come back positive and ready to learn. They’ve done really well this week and it’s like they’ve never been away. Well done Year 5, we’re so proud of you!

Our learning this week…

English - This week we have begun our unit on Greek Myths and have been exploring the story of Pandora’s box.

Maths - We’ve continued to work on fractions this week. We started by recapping the work that was completed over the last two weeks of home learning and have moved onto comparing and ordering fractions greater than 1.

Geography - We’ve looked in detail at the water cycle to follow up with the work from Kingfisher education workshops last week.

Art - This week we have looked at sculptures from the artist Alberto Giacometti. Then to link in with our work on the Ancient Greeks we have started making our own 3D sculptures, in the style of Alberto Giacometti, on the theme of the Ancient Greek Olympics. The children started by sketching each other in poses of Olympic sports and then they chose one and created the pose out of dowling and masking tape. Afterwards, the children applied modroc to complete the sculpture. Next week the children will paint them.

PE - This week the children have run the daily mile out on the playground and in our second session this week the children have played a Greek themed tag game - Spartans versus Athenians.

PSHE - We began our week reflecting on the lockdown and it gave the children the opportunity to talk about their lockdown memories and how they have felt about the last few months. We also began our ‘Think Good, Feel Good’ sessions of Bounce Forward which link to the Coping and Core Self Potion of the resilient framework. Using Disney’s Inside Out film, we explored all the emotions the children might feel and reinforced that it is ok to feel different at times and that is ok to feel sad, angry etc. It’s how we cope with it that helps us to be resilient.

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Resilient moves

What resilient moves will you make this week? Please email me your resilient move photos to year5@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk

Lent Reading Challenge

We have decided as a class to take on a class reading challenge for Lent. By the end of term, we - Year 5, Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Connolly - will read one of three books (chosen by the children). In the last week before we break up, we will celebrate our reading achievement by sharing our thoughts on the book with a book club party. Please encourage your child to read their chosen book to enable them to enjoy our book club at the end of term. You never know, some children might even go the extra mile and end up reading all three (Now there’s a challenge!).

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Our award winners:

Golden Award - Sam

Writing Award - Kayden

Maths Award - Evie

Year 5 Star Winner - Evie

Congratulations to Kourtney who was the overall Year 5 winner for the World Book Day 📚bookmark competition. Thank you and well done to everyone who took part.

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Congratulations to Sam for achieving his Bronze Music Medal on the flute this week. He scored an amazing 100% on his exam. Well done Sam!

Well done Year 5, we hope you have a lovely weekend.

Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Connolly

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We can walk together in Jesus' footsteps

Following the Prime Minister’s announcement on Monday, I am delighted and I am looking forward to welcoming you all back to school on Monday 8th March. It’s the news we’ve all been waiting for and it’s a sign of hope that better things are to come. The safety measures that have been in place since September will remain to ensure that we all stay safe in our own little year group bubble. If you haven’t already, please see Miss Haggerty’s post on the main news page of the website for details of the reopening. 

Our Lenten adventure begins…

Last Wednesday marked the beginning of Lent, which is a season of reflection and preparation before the celebrations of Easter. By observing the 40 days of Lent, or 46 if we count Sundays, we replicate Jesus Christ's sacrifice and withdrawal into the desert for 40 days. It is a time to refocus on Jesus as we look ahead to his death on the Cross at Easter and rejoice over his miraculous return. It is a time for reflecting on what we could do differently or maybe what we could do more of or less of during this time. Thank you for sharing your Lenten promises with me this week. In school the children also made their Lenten promises which we have put on display. When we get back to school we will think of a Lenten challenge that we can do together as a class.

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World Book Day

On Thursday it is World Book Day and we are asking children who are in school to dress as their favourite book character and if you’re at home, I would still like you to get involved and send me your photos. All the World Book Day activities, including a whole school bookmark competition, are detailed on the timetable and this will take place instead of our English work for the day.

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Bikeability

You should have all received an email regarding Bikeability which will take place on Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th March. This activity is limited to 12 children who are competent riders. Forms will need to be completed and sent in on Monday 8th March. Places are first come first serve basis.

Resilient moves

Thank you to those who shared their resilient moves this week. What resilient moves will you make this week? Please email me photos of your resilient moves you make this week to year5@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk  I look forward to receiving them.

Thank you once again Year 5 for the great work I’ve received this week. Next week’s home learning will be available on the home learning page later today ready for next week. As this will be our last week of home learning before we all return to school, please email work to me by 1pm on Friday 5th March so that I am able to feedback to the children before the end of the school day. Any work sent after the school day on Friday 5th March will go into your child’s lockdown portfolio of work but as we are all back at school on MONDAY 8TH MARCH I will not have time to go through it and feedback. Thank you for your continued support with this.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Connolly

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“Love is always patient and kind ... ” St Paul's letter, Corinthians 13

Well done Year 5, you’ve continued to amaze me with your hard work this week. In maths the multiplication methods got quite tricky but you’ve all worked so hard to understand them. We came to the end of the first Talk for Writing booklet in English this week and I’ve really enjoyed reading your ‘’wishing” stories that you’ve written and have been quite impressed with the language and description used to create an atmosphere. In RE we have explored what Jesus meant by love, using St Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, and you were able to show how St Damien showed his love for the lepers on the island of Molokai and how his decisions were informed by his beliefs. In addition to this you’ve learnt about the most important cultural contributions of the Ancient Greeks, different methods of asexual reproduction in plants (including bulbs, runner plants and tubers) and you’ve coded a Scratch program so that the sprite can be moved around the maze avoiding the maze walls. You have all worked so hard and many of you have also managed to keep up with your two lessons of Bedrock, spelling, TTRS and Education City. This is fantastic and you, and your parents, well and truly deserve a good rest and some family time over the weekend. Thank you all, and your parents, for your continued support at this very difficult time. Together we will get through it.

Thank you to those of you who shared their resilient moves with us this week. It’s really important, more so at this time, to make sure you are making time to look after yourself and do things you enjoy to keep positive and be resilient. Have a look at what our class has been up to this week…

What resilient moves will you make this week? It would be lovely if everyone could email me at least one photo of you making a resilient move so we can share them here. Please email me photos of your resilient moves you make this week to year5@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk I look forward to receiving them.

Next week’s home learning can now be accessed from this link .This will be available each week by the end of school on a Friday . Please note that it is a government expectation that work is sent in to teachers to be evidenced and feedback given where necessary. Thank you so much for all the work you are sending, I know how difficult this is whilst also trying to do your own jobs too - it’s really appreciated! Please email any outstanding work to me by 1pm on a Friday so that I am able to feedback to the children before the end of the school day. If work is not sent to me, I will need to follow this up so please keep in contact with me.

Have a lovely weekend!

Take care, miss you all!

Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Connolly

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“If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me” Luke 9:23

Thank you Year 5 for another week of great work. I’ve enjoyed seeing all the wonderful work that you have been completing, both on paper and using our online websites (Bedrock, IXL, TTRS), and I’m so proud of each one of you. It’s been lovely to see how you’re all progressing with your maths, there’s certainly been some tricky concepts this week to get your heads around. In English, you’ve worked hard using dictionaries and thesauruses to explain meanings of words and have found some wonderful synonyms and antonyms for those tricky target words. I’ve also enjoyed the sentences you’ve written to create a mood by describing the atmosphere of the inside and outside. Thank you also for the membership cards you’ve made to be a follower of Jesus, I’ve added some photos of these below. You wrote some lovely rules for us, as followers of Jesus, to live by. I’ve also been really impressed with the engagement and quality of your work in history, science and computing too - I can really tell you’ve listened and understood well. Well done Year 5!

Here’s some of the children’s RE work and some photos of the children working hard at home…

Thank you to those who shared their resilient moves this week, I’ve really enjoyed seeing what you have been getting up to. What resilient moves will you make this week? It would be lovely if everyone could email me at least one photo of you making a resilient move so we can share them here. Please email me photos of your resilient moves you make this week to year5@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk I look forward to receiving them.

Next week’s home learning can now be accessed from this link https://www.ourladyassumption-sch.co.uk/yr5-home-learning

Thanks again for all your hard work Year 5 (and parents). Hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Mrs McVey

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Thank you!

Well, it’s been a long, unexpected, week and I’m really sad that we’re not all going to be together for some time. However, I’d like to start by saying a big thank you and well done to all of you for the work that you have sent me this week. I’ve been really impressed with how hard you’ve all worked and how resilient you’ve shown yourselves to be by quickly settling into this new, but not so unfamiliar, routine. I’ve enjoyed reading your poems and I can see that you’re all striving to be your best. I am so proud of every single one of you! Thank you parents for all your support this week, it has been very much appreciated.

Please see Year 5’s Home Learning page for next week’s work. https://www.ourladyassumption-sch.co.uk/yr5-home-learning

Thank you, I hope you all have a great week!

Mrs McVey

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Happy Christmas!

Well what a wonderful end to a great term! I am so proud of Year 5, it has been an unusual time for everyone but they’ve worked so hard, shown great resilience and have really shone their lights this Advent. Thank you parents for your continued support with your child’s learning.

This time of year we would normally hold our annual KS2 Christmas Carol Concert. Although we couldn’t do this in church this year, Year’s 4, 5 and 6 got together to celebrate this special time and share this with you. We hope you enjoy it as much as the children enjoyed taking part. A special thank you goes to Father Jim who very kindly put all our videos together for us - Thank you Father Jim!

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Thursday afternoon the children were treated to a virtual pantomime of Cinderella and they absolutely loved it! Thank you to our wonderful PTFA for organising it and for the lovely treats that the children had whilst watching.

Year 5 Achievements

Our Reading Champions…

Well done to our reading champions this half term who all completed bookmarks (some completed 2!) for reading regularly at home. Reading is so important and I ask parents to continue to encourage your child to read regularly at home (at least 20 minutes per day) and get their diary signed.

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When the children read regularly, golden tickets are given out and then we do a draw at the end of each half term. Well done to Evie and Adam who are our golden ticket winners and have won a prize.

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This week Evie received her Bronze award for clarinet. Miss Benson was very proud of her and so were we. Well done Evie!

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Year 5 Stars

This week’s Year 5 Star is Brodie .

Our overall Year 5 star winner for Autumn term was Elliot. Elliot regularly tops our weekly leader board for the most dojo points received and over the term has collected an amazing 727 points. Well done Elliot!

Thank you to those of you who shared your resilient moves with us this week…

This week’s resilient moves challenge, from the Resilience framework, are:

1 - Find time for your interests. (Coping)

2- When times are tough, remember tomorrow is a new day. (Coping)

Please email me any photos of resilient moves you make over the Christmas holidays (for the two above or any others!). We look forward to seeing them and sharing them in the new year.

On Wednesday was Christmas dinner day and the children were treated to festive music and Christmas crackers…

Online Safety

Access to new technology over the winter period can provide new opportunities for children and young people but also present risks. Thinkuknow have published a Parent guide which looks at how you can support your child to be safer online this season by focusing on 3 key areas: viewing, sharing, chatting and friending. Please click on the link to take a look at how you can keep your child safe online.

Christmas is a time for giving and thinking of others and I just wanted to share this photograph of Evie and her sister Charlotte who have organised a collection for the Streetlife homeless charity in Blackpool. It is the third year the girls have made hampers and this year they managed to beat last year’s target and made 22 hampers! What a fantastic example of helping and showing loving concern for others this Christmas. Congratulations girls, this is amazing!

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We wish you all a wonderful happy and Holy Christmas 🎄and we hope you all stay safe and well and have a great start to the New Year. See you all in the new year!

Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Connolly 

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Great team work!

We’ve had a fantastic week in Year 5, the children have really amazed me! They were set a number of challenges this week in our DT/Science lessons. In the first of these sessions, the children were split into three groups and given a different challenge. One group had to make a simple frame from wood, using tools safely. The second group had to make a a moving vehicle using tech card and their knowledge of circuits and the third group had to make a vehicle shell for a chosen planet and design it using their knowledge of that planet. Elliot and Laciee were also challenged to making their own moving chassis using a lego set that school have borrowed. All the children worked extremely well and completed their challenges successfully…

The children were then put into small groups and together as a team they were set the challenge of designing and making a moon buggy model. The children designed their buggy, deciding on the materials that they would need and set off making it. By the end of the morning the children finished their moon buggies. I am so impressed with how hard they all worked and more impressed with the maturity they all showed, working in their teams supporting each other and with good cooperation and collaboration. Their work is now on display in the entrance hall for other Year groups to have a look at. Take a look at what they achieved…

Our other learning this week:

English - This week the children have been reading non-chronological reports and have been identifying the features.

Maths - This week the children have identified and named the parts of a circle including diameter, radius and circumference. They’ve drawn circles to a given radius using a pair of compasses and have also used angle facts to solve problems related to turns.

RE - The children read the story of Exodus when Moses was chosen to lead the Israelites out of Egypt and they have explored the challenges they faced and how they responded when tested.

Art - The children have continued to experiment with the work of Hundertwasser and have begun to enlarge their own work based on his.

PE - The children have been perfecting their hand ball skills and have enjoyed some really quick and fast paced games.

Yoga - This week was our last yoga session this year. We’ve all really enjoyed these sessions each week and it’s been good to see how much the children have improved in their balance and achieving mindful body and mindful listening.

PSHE - The children have made their own strength badges this week. They named one of their strengths and how that strength can make them more resilient.

Thank you to those of you who shared their resilient moves with us this week…

This week’s resilient moves challenge, from the Resilience framework, are:

1 - Develop life skills (Learning)

2- Calming down and making yourself feel better (Coping)

Please email me any photos of resilient moves you make this week (for the two above or any others!). We look forward to seeing them and sharing them.

Our award winners:

Golden Award - Mia

Writing Award - Isabella

Maths Award - Lila

Year 5 Star Winner - To be done on Monday

Thank you all for taking part in Christmas jumper day, the children looked great! We hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Connolly





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First week of Advent

It’s feeling like Christmas in Year 5 this week and it has really lifted everyone’s spirits. We have our Christmas trees up (including one on the window made out of the children’s handprints), twinkly fairy lights are lit and our advent wreath candles and Nativity set are in place. It has been a really lovely week starting each day opening our interactive advent calendar from Cafod, sharing the Scripture of the day (read by the children) and saying our special advent prayer…

Our learning this week:

English - This week the children have been writing their adventure stories and have also been editing their work to make it better.

Maths - The focus this week has been using a protractor to measure angles accurately and they have been identifying the different angles: acute, right angles, obtuse and reflex.

RE - This week the children have explored the covenant that God made with Moses and have looked at the trust and faith that he had in God, which influenced his decision. The children used the Bible to record the key points of the conversation between God and Moses.

Science - The children have been identifying the effects of friction on different surfaces and have investigated those which have high friction and those with low friction.

Art - The children have been introduced to the work of Hundertwasser this week and have used a viewfinder to select and draw a section of one of his images. Take a look at their initial drawings…

DT - We started our DT work this week and the children were set a challenge to make a simple chassis using just card, dowling, 4 wheels and masking tape. Take a look at their efforts…

Thank you to those of you who shared their resilient moves with us this week…

This week’s resilient moves challenge, from the Resilience framework, are:

1 - Get some fresh air and exercise (Basics)

2- Eat a healthy diet (Basics)

Our award winners:

Golden Award - Nevaeh

Writing Award - Grace

Maths Award - Jacob

Year 5 Star Winner - Isabella

Well done to some of our instrumentalists who have achieved their bronze medal during the last couple of weeks. Miss Benson was very proud of them and so are we…

Another great week Year 5! We hope you have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing your photos of the resilient moves you make this week.

Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Connolly





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