Happy New Year, Year 5!

We have enjoyed a great and busy and rather wet (swimming and the torrential rain) week back with you! This week in English, we began our new and rather gory Macbeth writing unit. The children loved acting out the characters of Macbeth (particularly acting the part of the three witches)! (See images below)

Reminders for next week:

Tuesday- RE home learning due

Wednesday- 5D swimming

Have a lovely weekend,

The Year 5 team

Well done Year 5 on your fantastic efforts today on the Santa Dash! You were all FANTASTIC!

Next week is the last week of term before we break up for Christmas holidays. Reminders for the week…..Home learning due on Tuesday, DT evacuation satchel making all day on Wednesday with a Christmas dinner at lunch time. Friday is the last day of term. Ho Ho Ho! Year 5 team

This week, Year 5 were kindly invited to participate in a worship at Oaklands Chapel, led by Mrs Semple. We had a wonderful time altogether, reflecting on ourselves as brothers and sisters to one another. Collaboratively, we created a memory of this by each sealing our commitment as a year group by printing our finger prints altogether on a decorative canvas which now hangs proud in our Year 5 area.

This week in our RE learning we have been linking our learning all about the ‘marginalised’ to Catholic Social Teaching.

This week, we deepened our understanding about the Catholic Social Teaching key ‘Dignity’ and wrote an acrostic prayer reflecting on the ‘marginalised’.

Here are a few very reflective and thoughtful examples from Year 5….

Reminders for next week…

Home learning and book review is due on Tuesday

PE is Wednesday

Have a lovely weekend,

Year 5 team

Year 5 returned this week to their weekly ukulele lessons with lots of rocking beats. They practised their key skills from last half term such as strumming and picking specific chords, playing and singing in tandem and creating their own tunes to songs.

Our final week sees us completing our World War 2 topic in History for this half term. The children have so enjoyed learning about this topic and deepen our knowledge on our sustainability trip, in lessons and through our home learning. The children are very excited about a day trip planned in November to Fort Nelson, the Royal Armories, to become part of a WW2 squadron to complete challenges as if the children were taking on the different job roles undertaken in wartime.

This week, Year 5 has been exploring character’s emotions and feeling based on evacuation scenarios. They showed with their body language and facial expressions how they were feeling whilst saying goodbye to their mothers at the train station, waiting to be picked up by their new foster family and their first day at a new school. We used characters from our guided reading text: Letters from the Lighthouse and Carrie’s War to inspire the characterisation in our drama work in order to aid our diary writing.

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…