As we fully immerse ourselves into our country study and Indian culture, we have had a drumming workshop this week. During our drumming workshop, we learnt to play musical patterns on the djembe and traditional Indian drums and play as an orchestra. The children enjoyed playing the rhythmic patterns.

Reminders for next week:

PE kits need to be worn on Wednesday 11th May.

Homework is due in on Thursday 12th May.

A book review is due in by Thursday 12th May.

Have a great weekend,

The Year 5 Team

Year 5 have began the new term with a bang of creativity!!!

India Day on Tuesday began our country topic with Diya painting and Indian dancing and tasting Indian spices and foods whilst the end of this week saw the children creating and sewing their Egyptian textiles for DT.

Reminders

Homework resumes this week – Homework  is due on Thursday 5th May.

Book reviews are due on Thursday 12th May

No PE next week due to Bank Holiday Monday.

We have had a large number of children complaining of itchy, sore eyes, especially in the afternoons. They are now back on the field for lunchtime. If your child suffers from hayfever, please ensure they have been given an antihistamine before school as pollen levels will continue to rise. Thank you.

Enjoy the bank holiday weekend. See you Tuesday.

The Year 5 Team

Because we will not be at school during Holy Week, we have watched 3 very powerful Passion plays enacted by children from Years 5 and 6. They have really made us think about what Jesus did for us.

We have also taken part in the Way of the Cross, reflecting at four of the stations. This prayer pilgrimage is a powerful way to grow closer to Jesus, knowing we walk beside him in faith and love. We ended our short pilgrimage with a penetential liturgy to say sorry for our wrong choices.

Have a peaceful and restful Easter,

The Year 5 Team

Something the children have really enjoyed this year is developing their own pupil-led worships from the weekly gospel. They have really enjoyed creating a prayer arch and ringing a bell to enter the class to gather for worship. This week, the parable of the prodigal son reminds us, as Christians, that each person is precious to God, who celebrates the return of one who is lost. The group this week chose to act out the parable as part of their worship. At the end of the worship, the children enjoy choosing a song to sing.

Reminders:

No PE next week for 5SC on Monday as they will be performing their passion play on Monday 4th April at 2pm.

No swimming for 5E next week as lessons have finished.

Both Homework and Reading journals to be handed in by Thursday 7th April.

Have a lovely weekend,

The Year 5 Team

This week we have been busy thinking about action scenes and dialogue for our narratives, based on Ruin. We’ve worked on using line graphs and tables to find comparisons, sum and difference between data. In Science we investigated how to separate a solution – so far, we’ve managed to separate the soil and sand from the solution. Now we’re using evaporation to separate the water and salt.

We were lucky enough to have Mrs Richardson from Oaklands music department come over and work with us, helping us to sing harmonies, rounds and then we started to learn ‘We Are the Champions’ by Queen.

Well done to Eva, who completed her moon diary and bought it back into school. A dedicated piece of moon watching!

** Reminders:

• The clocks go forward this Sunday.

• Both classes will need their P.E. kits on Wednesday 30th March, with CM Sports.

• 5E need their swimming kits, for their last swimming session, on Thursday 31st March.

• Homework is due on Thursday 31st March.

• The next book review is not due until Thursday 7th April.

Enjoy your weekend,

The Year 5 Team

Thank goodness we end the week with beautiful, blue skies after Wednesday’s torrential weather. Science this week saw the children investigating the saturation point of both salt and sugar in our change of materials unit. The children are really enjoying the practical work and are increasing their knowledge and disciplinary skills. Next week we move on to seperating mixtures.

We found out that sugar has a higher saturation point than salt.  We concluded that the solubility of sugar increases much more than the solubility of salt as the temperature of the water increases.

Reminders

Home learning books to be returned Thursday 24th March. No book review due next week.

PE for 5SC is Monday 21st March and Swimming for 5E is Thursday 24th March.

Have a lovely weekend in the sun.

The Year 5 Team

Welcome back to the second half of the Spring term. We’ve hit the ground running this week, with a variety of activities to support our learning. We also had a lovely service for Ash Wednesday, where we received an ash cross on our foreheads.

We started the week with a maths task that really got our brains working hard – we had to think carefully about what we had already learnt and how to apply that knowledge  to solve the problem.

In Science we looked at the solubility of Skittles, making observations over time about the colouring and size of the sweet changing.

World book Day took place on Thursday, where we all looked amazing in our costumes.

** Reminders:

Red homework books are due next Thursday (10th March).

Reading Journals, with a completed book review, are due on Thursday 10th March.

The R.E. task is due by the Thursday 17th March.

5SC need P.E. kits for Monday 7th March.

5E need to remember their swimming kit for Thursday 10th March.

Have an enjoyable weekend,

The Year 5 Team

Our last week of term was busy as usual, completing our poems based on Macbeth and playing with Haikus. The children loved the creativity of poetry and it has inspired many to create their own poems independently as well as read more poetry in class.

In science we completed our space topic by looking at the phases of the moon and how they are created each month. The children have been looking at the moon and completing a moon diary. One Year 5 pupil took his telescope out in the garden this week and viewed the ‘snow moon’ through the lens and took some pictures. What an incredible experience up close up!

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In class, to end our science lesson, we created the moon phases with jaffa cakes. The children were very excited and inspired to eat the moon!!

Reminders:

No formal home learning set over half term but we have given the children some pointers for reading, times tables, spellings (which is stuck in their home learning journals) if they are bored! We also gave out the Egyptian topic creative tasks if the children were feeling inspired next week, before we start this topic in school after half term.

PE for all year 5 is on Wednesday 2nd March and Swimming for 5E on Thursday 3rd March.

World Book Day is on Thursday 3rd March – children are invited to dress up as their favourite book character.

Have a great half term week.

See you on Monday 28th February.

The Year 5 Team

On Monday, we were really lucky to have Polly Ho-Yen visit school. She is the author of books we have been reading in Guided Reading lessons and as one of our ‘Must Read’ texts. She gave a general presentation about her life, her way of writing and the books she has published to years 5 and 6 before spending time with each of the Year 5 classes in workshops.

Later on, she signed copies of her books.

On Tuesday, we celebrated Mass at school looking particularly at the missionary work by St Peter and St Paul.

Reminders:

Homework and Reading Journals are due Thursday 17th February.

5E will need their swimming kits for Thursday 17th February, ready for their first swimming session.

5SC will need to wear their P.E. kits to school for Monday 14th February.

Don’t forget that Friday 18th February will be an INSET, so school will be closed to pupils on that day.

Have a wonderful weekend,

The Year 5 Team

We have had a creative week in Year 5 – amazing solar system models created by Ruby, Jonah, Noah and Pheobe for home learning, linking to our Space topic.  So much attention was put into creating these and the children have been so inspired by this topic. Jonah’s model was created using a 3D printer – a real piece of engineering.

We also created a ‘blanket of care’ as part of our Oscar Romero week. The children wrote prayers on each patchwork square and then Mrs Moore stitched them together with wool and love. We displayed it on our R.E. board to remind us of other communities beyond our self.

Reminders 

Monday 7th February – Author visit by Polly Ho-Yen. If you have already bought a book by Polly Ho-Yen, the children can get it signed by the author on the day so bring in to school on Monday.

Year 5/6 Mass is in school on Tuesday 8th February.

PE kits to be worn for 5SC and 5E on Wednesday 9th February with CM Sports.

Last swimming lesson for 5SC on Thursday 10th February.

Homework (online on Sumdog and in homework books) is due on Thursday 10th February.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 5 Team