We finished our Catholic Social teaching unit this week with posters that conveyed the messages of the unit – Human Dignity, Participation, Option for the Poor and Solidarity. We used parables to show us how Jesus treated the marginalised groups in society including disabilities, poverty, homelessness, immigrants.

We even had Abigail show us how she used the messages of the unit to complete a sponsored walk around Portsea Island in aid of a Brain Cancer charity and raised over £1200.  Well done Abigail!

Reminders for next week:

Whole School Advent service – Tuesday 29th November – at Sacred Heart Church. Please provide a coat for sudden downpours, if rain is forecasted.

Homework due in Thursday as normal. Sumdog and TT Rockstars to practice and if your child has not brought in a book review this week, please ensure that they bring a book review in this Thursday. Thank you.

Have a great weekend,

The Year 5 Team

Hello everyone

We hope you are well and are enjoying the week. The children have been busy with their persuasive writing plans and are now on drafting and editing. They have focused on the planet Pandora where the Navi live. They are creating a persuasive leaflet to entice tourists to visit the extra-terrestrial world!

A few polite reminders –

• Parents evenings will be held next week on Tuesday 22nd November and Wednesday 23rd November. Please check your timings on Scopay. We look forward to seeing you.
• Homework is due on Thursday 24th November. Please ensure your child is completing their sumdog homework as we are having low submissions of work.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Year 5

FORT NELSON TRIP REVIEW!!

Fort Nelson links with World War 2 where you can do all types of activities there. You even get to watch people hold guns! What makes this place special is that you can see canons and the people dress up just like World War 2 Captains.

You get a really good tour of most things there especially in the tunnels. You get to see guns and you can hear and see the air raid siren. It’s really fun there and all the kids love it when the adults are dressed up and role playing.

By Evie and Freya

OUR GOOD TIME AT FORT NELSON

When we arrived at Fort Nelson, we met a home guard and joined the air raid precaution. During one of our activities, we heard a practise air raid siren. In another, we saw a real rifle and then we practised with a wooden rifle. We got to try and name planes to spot if they were friends or enemies. We got to find out what to do when someone was hurt and how to put a fire out in the 1940s. At the end of the day, we got to choose what division we wanted to work for like the Home Guard, Auxiliary Territorial Service or Air Raid Precaution.

By Matthew and Abigail

Today we went to Fort Nelson (9^th November). We explored the jobs that WW2 citizens would do in everyday life.  These voluntary jobs were in the ARP, standing for Air Raid Precaution, HOME GUARD and finally, the ATS standing for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. All of these jobs were very important. This was a great opportunity and experience to learn so much about WW2 and it would be so fun and unforgettable. Personally we enjoyed being with our friends and really playing the role of a WW2 volunteer. We also got to go into the tunnels and a projector showed all of the aircraft which we had to guess which one was friend or foe and lots more fun activties.

Rosie and Isabella.

Fort Nelson trip

“The trip to Fort Nelson was spectacular. We got to do lots of activities and got the opportunity to go under the fort into the tunnels”

“There were a lot of things to explore and we found out a lot more about World War Two. I would recommend this place very much.”

Hattie and Feodora

At the end of the day when all the points were added up, it was very close with only 1 point between most teams.

However, the winning squadron was FOX SQUADRON from 5SC.

A great day was had by everyone!!

Hello everyone,

We hope you are well and enjoyed the half term. The children have come back focused and ready to learn. We have been busy with multiplication in maths, starting our new unit ‘Pandora’ in English in which we focused on persuasive language and have been busy with RE, Science and our school Liturgy.

In DT, we began to explore paint and other tools on the computer to help us with our designs of our evacuation satchels (CAD). We are very excited to print these onto transfer paper and add them to our work.

Polite reminders –

• Homework (including Sumdog and Times Table rockstars soundcheck) is due next Thursday.
• Year 5-6 Mass is happening on Tuesday 8th November. Parents are welcome.
• Fort Nelson trip is happening on Wednesday 9th November. Please send children into school in school uniform and appropriate weather wear and foot wear. Also please send in a pack lunch.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Year 5 team.