On Tuesday of this week Year 5 travelled to Sacred Heart for a whole school Advent service. Many thanks to all the parents who helped walk the children to and from school. Well done to all of the children who took part in our service.

Our lessons in maths this week have continued to focus on decimal numbers. Children have applied their understanding of place value to help them solve a range of routine and non-routine problems.

In English we have been exploring different sentence structures to help develop our story writing skills. Next week children will begin applying these new skills through more extended pieces of writing.

Today in class we all became scientists as part of our first STEM day of the year. We spent the day looking at the filtration of water before children worked in groups to design and make their own water filtration system using a range of materials. They then proceeded to filter some really muddy water with some very successful results. We will add some photos to the blog early next week.

This week, Joseph Hatter (5E) received the golden key award for improving his work rate and effort in lessons. Joe Bennett (5E) has his writing displayed on the showstoppers wall. Esther Burrows (5CW) received the golden key award for being a fantastic team player and collaborating well with others.

Have a wonderful weekend.

The Year 5 team