Palm Sunday-The Beginning of Holy Week
This coming Sunday is Palm Sunday, which commemorates the entrance of Christ into Jerusalem (Matthew 21:1–9), when palm branches were placed in His path. This marks the beginning of Holy Week, leading to His arrest on Holy Thursday and his crucifixion on Good Friday. In class, we made origami crosses, which can be taken to mass on Palm Sunday.
Power of Prayer….
In RE, we also had a special reflection, using the power of prayer. During our ‘Express Yourself’ time, at the end of each day, I had noticed that many were sharing their feelings about people who were poorly or who has suffered loss in their family. We took some time in our RE lesson to write our own prayers and intentions, and these are now in our prayer basket. It was so beautiful to hear so many wanting to share their prayers with the class…it made me very emotional!
Farewell Ducks….
Year 5 have been homing ducks for the past couple of weeks, and today was their last day in school. Mrs McVey has kindly shared a video update….
Here’s what we have been up to this week….
In Maths we revised area of parallelograms and then we looked at calculating the mean and interpreting line graphs.
In English, we have finished our guided write. The class are now ready to plan and complete their independent write, based on the story of The Wizard of Oz. I cannot wait to read their final drafts!
Our Spelling focus this week has been the plural, with words ending in o, f and fe.
In PSHE, our focus was on friendship. We looked at the qualities that we look for in a friend and then reflected on the qualities that we possess. It was a really lovely lesson, and so pleasing to hear so many identifying so many of these qualities in their friends from school.
In Computing, we continued with our BitsBox activities, using coding to create apps. I am so impressed with how advanced many of their codes were, and it was so pleasing to see that they can debug, when their codes did not work.
Notices:
Yesterday, everyone in the class was sent home with a ‘Nature Explorer’ pack. These are for the children to do over half term. I would love it if you could take and send me any pictures of your child completing any of these activities!
We break up from school next Thursday, 1st April, at normal finishing time, 3.15pm.
On PE days, please can you make sure children are not wearing earrings.
AWARD WINNERS:
This week’s Golden Award went to Vinny for being such a hard-working member of the class. He is also such a kind and considerate young boy, who brightens the classroom!
The Writing Award went to Sophie for grammatically accurate piece of writing this week.
The Maths Award went to Ellie for the huge improvements I have seen with her mental maths.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend!
Miss Slater & Mrs Murray
