Our last week of this autumn term begun with a end of term performance after learning the ukuele. The children have worked so hard to learn different notes, chords, picking, strumming and reading and compositing music. They played a selection of songs such as Picadilly Circus and Land of the Silver Birch and also gave renditions of Jingle Bells and a Christmas version of Frere Jacques before ending the concert with Rocking all over the World.

Reminders for the first week of Spring Term 2023

Changes to Y5 timetable for Spring 1 Term – Library session will now be on a Tuesday and a new reading passport will be issued for spring term.

PE – 5SC swimming on a Wednesday afternoon until February half term.

No English and Maths homework has been set in the homework books over Christmas. There is Sumdog and TT rockstars available if you wish your child to keep going with maths skills. We would encourage daily reading to maintain fluency for our next guided reading novel. A book review is due for the first week back.

We wish you all a very happy Christmas and a restful break.

We’ll look forward to seeing the children again on Tuesday 3rd January 2023.

The Year 5 Team

Hello everyone,

We hope you are well. The children have been extremely busy this week with all their learning. We have studied influential women who changed the world to prepare us when writing our biographies in English. In Maths, we have been working hard exploring equivalent fractions using visual representations and our times table facts.

In Science, we have been conducting numerous experiments to study forces. Last weeks, we studied Nancy Wake- a war hero – and created a parachute just like hers. We wanted to test what would happen  if the enemies tried to shot her parachute down. This helped us understand air resistance and surface area.

A few polite reminders –

• Friday 2nd December is World Cup football day. Most children have signed up to this so please ensure they are sent into school wearing their PE kits and trainers.
• Homework which includes vocabulary, spelling and maths is due on Thursday 8th December.
• Friday 9th December is Christmas Jumper day (jumpers, accessories, tops)
• Monday 12th December at 2.15pm is the Year 5 ukulele concert which parents are warmly invited to.

We hope you have  wonderful weekend,

Year 5 team

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.

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 had to use our ration coupons to collect our WWII lunch of corn beef hash with potatoes and carrots. 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. Mrs McKenzie then taught us WWII music on the ukulele.

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…

We’re back from a lovely three days at the Sustainability Centre. It was a packed three days and we were so grateful that the weather was kind to us. The children experienced different activities which included sculpting clay animals, crafting clay and chalk bricks, constructing a clay oven, learning about bush survival with fire making, den building, a fantastically informative WW2 talk with very special artefacts and also a trip to a local farm championing sustainability.  We also had night time activities of a night walk on the South Downs, encounter sheep in the process as well as being treated to a magical storytelling session of local folk tales and songs last night.

The children ate well including plenty of biscuits and have even learned how to put a duvet cover on. There were very few tears and the children said they really enjoyed the experience of being responsible and independent.

Here is selection of photos to give you a flavour of our time away.

Have a lovely weekend.

P.S WW2 Evacuation dress up day will be on this Monday (17^th October) – please dress up as an evacuee and bring a gas mask box and/or name tag.

Hello everyone!

We hope you’ve had a fun week, we certainly have!

Here are just some snapshots of our fantastic few days away! On the Wednesday, we created sticky mosaics collecting colours and textures in nature, create clay tree spirits, played on the paddock, created a clay oven, made a wall out of chalk and made  an earth bag structure! And that was all before dinner which was scrumptious pizza and salad, with carrot cake for afters! To help our dinner go down, we set off on our night walk along the South downs. We were lucky enough to catch the sunset and it was beautiful!

Day two started with ball games on the padlock after a large breakfast! We then played the bee game, in which we could only communicate to our fellow bee team mates by buzzing and shaking our bottoms! We then hopped onto a tractor and explored the farms on the downs! We saw goats, sheep, pheasants, birds of prey and some of us caught the glimpse of a deer!  Next activity was orienteering! We loved this and could really show off our map skills! We also had a WW2 presentation on exploring artefacts!

After our broccoli and cheese potato bake for dinner, we headed to the woodland house for campfire stories and songs. Walking home in the dark woods was rather exciting, but we were glad when we got back to the lodge for a hot chocolate and biscuits.

On the last day, we woke up well rested and had another large breakfast. This gave us enough energy to go on a tinder walk and how to create a fire using different materials. We then worked in teams to create a den! It was a competition but we all won with our amazing den building skills!

We had a wonderful time and Mrs Jackson-Nash, Mrs Moore and Mrs Emmerson said we were fantastic and went to bed very well!

We can’t wait for the Year 6 residential!

Hello everyone,

We hope you are well. The children this week have continued to work hard looking at diary features in English, to addition and subtraction using their place value knowledge in maths and debating and expressing opinions about the school in our PDL lesson. Our history unit this term is World War 2, which the children have fully immersed themselves into. We have watched segments from Carrie’s War, listened to air raid shelters and found interviews from children of the WW2. Cassowary and Kookaburras then researched the events leading up to WW2 and created their own chronological timeline.

Thank you for all those who attended the residential meeting this week.  If you were unable to attend, please let us know through a message or email to the office and we can email the PowerPoint or send it home with your child.

Reminders for the week ahead:

Home learning books and PE kits due on Thursdays.

Wednesday 28th September: Deadline for medical forms for 5SC residential trip: we need to provide information two weeks in advance so please ensure that these are returned. Additional copies are available from the class teacher.

Friday 30th September : INSET day 

Tuesday 4th October : Open day at School.

Wednesday 5th-Friday 7th October : 5JN Residential trip.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 5 Team