In our RE this half term we have been deepening our understanding of the Creation story by  developing an understanding of people’s responsibility to the world, as co-creators. Out of Lego, we made a creation of something in the world that we valued or something we would like to see created. Our Lego creations were then destroyed. We thought about how the destruction of our creations made us feel and compared this to how God must feel about his world and what we are doing to it.

Reminders for next week….

-Home learning due on Tuesday

-PE on Thursday

-Non-Uniform day Friday

When Year 5 went back to 1939…..

We dressed in World War II type clothing and completed our look with gas mask boxes, ID cards, ration cards and evacuation tags.

We spent the day learning about the role of propaganda during the war; designing our own evacuation posters while also experiencing an air raid or two! We were asked regularly to prove who we were by showing our identity cards or risk spending time being questioned by a policeman.

At lunchtime, we enjoyed a special WW2 lunch of fish, chips and mushy peas with rice pudding and jam for afters. Mrs Crockford and her team provided the lunch and dressed in the style of 1940’s women. In the afternoon, we were visited by Jerome who let us explore many WWII artefacts and he even brought his jeep.

At the end of the day, parents came in to the ‘evacuation hall’ to decide which evacuee they wanted to take home with them. It was a long wait for some of us…

Wow! That’s two weeks flown by already!

You have all been demonstrating our focused School learning behaviour of ‘Resilience’ these past two weeks- it was SO difficult to choose two children from each class for Celebration assembly this fortnight. Well done to you all! You should all be feeling so proud!

In our RE this week, you all very maturely reflected and discussed how our School mission links to The Ten Commandments, Beatitudes and the Bible and Jesus’ teachings.

We are very much looking forward to our WW2 dress up day next Friday! Including a special WW2 lunch. Did you know that fish and chips wasn’t rationed during the war?

It was lovely to see so many parents at the ‘Meet the Teacher’ evening event. We hope that it was informative all about year 5 for you. We are sending all of the information shared in this meeting to all parents via ParentMail in case you were unable to make it.

Reminders for next week…

• Homework due on Tuesday please
• PE on Thursday
• WW2 dress up day on Friday

Have a lovely weekend!

Year 5 team