This week in Maths the children have been estimating and measuring capacity in their maths lessons to apply their conversion skills from mls to litres. They will use these maths skills to further apply to their problem solving next week.

Also a special shoutout to our very talented students who performed ‘Amazing Grace’ ‘Geese in a Bog’  to the year 5 classes so beautifully. It really inspired the pupils and set us off to a great start on our music deep learning day on Friday. So keep your eyes peeled next week to see what we got up to!

Reminders for next week:

Please continue to bring in sponsorship money collected for  5SC’s sponsored swim.

World Book Day is Thursday 2nd March – children to dress up in their favourite book character.

Have a lovely weekend,

The Year 5 Team

Dear Parents,

5SC have completed their swimming lessons for this half term and they have swam a total of nearly 700 lengths between the whole class!!

A fantastic well done, not just for this session, but for the whole 6 weeks where they have made such great progress from gaining water confidence, to improving their swimming strokes and stamina, to learning the butterfly stroke! The children received their swimming certificates today. The swimming teachers have also been so complimentary about the children’s behaviour and attitudes towards the lessons. A big pat on the back to the children for representing St Peter’s so beautifully.

Please now start to collect in your sponsorship money and return after half term in a named envelope with the sponsorship form where the lovely ladies in the office will provide us with a grand total.

Many thanks for your support to encourage the children to use their actions for the benefit of others.

Have a lovely half term,

Miss Stapley

Hello everyone,

What a busy half term it has been! The children have learnt so much from swimming strokes, to sewing, to space, to Macbeth. We hope you’re excited for next term where we will be learning about fractions, decimals and percentages, poetry, crime and punishment and so much more! Keep an eye out for our DT day where will we be inviting parents to come along and help with the pupils gruesome designs!

Some polite reminders for upcoming dates,

• Friday 10th February 2023 is an inset day.
• Homework and Book reviews are due on 23rd February 2023.
• Please continue to use Padlet to add extra book reviews – see link on previous blog.
• Please continue to practise your soundchecks on TTR.
• 5JN will start their swimming lessons on Wednesday 22nd February 2023. Please send children in with correct swimming costumes, googles and nose plugs if necessary.
• Thank you to Father Jeremy, the pupils and all the parents and friends who joined us for our year 5-6 mass this week.

We hope that you all have a wonderful and well deserved half term, we look forward to welcoming you back on Monday 20th February 2023 .

Here is just a small snippet of the fun we have had this term!

This week the children have been continue to explore Space in science and we looked at the moon orbit around the earth and the different phases we see during its lunar orbit. We then made these phases out of jaffa cakes. The children then got to eat their own jaffa cake moon and we have never seen moons eaten that quickly before!!

We are very lucky to live in such close proximity to a Dark Skies National Park – the South Downs. The park’s Dark Skies Festival is beginning this weekend and runs from 4th – 17th February 2023. There are lots of free family activities and events available. Further information is available from www.southdowns.gov.uk/dark-night-skies/dark-skies-festival/

Reminders for next week:

• Year 5 and 6 Mass – Tuesday 7th February at 9.15am – all families welcome.
• Last swimming lesson for 5SC – Wednesday 8th February
• PE kits for both 5SC and 5JN for CM Sports PE session
• Inset Day – Friday 10th February

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 5 Team