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

Our Year 5 Swimming lessons are well under way and the children are really enjoying the experience. Some children are improving their water confidence including swimming underwater whilst others are improving their swimming techniques and stamina. It is always a wonderful part of our PE curriculum to watch the children grow in confidence with the excellent teaching of the swim teachers.

In two weeks, the children will be completing their swimming certificate assessment and, at the same time, be taking part in a sponsored swim for the Wessex Neurological Centre. Children in 5SC have brought home their sponsorship forms. Even a few pounds can make a big difference so please do not feel that your child has to be sponsored huge amounts to feel that they are not making a difference – any support you can give will always be gratefully appreciated.

Upcoming Reminders:

PE kits for 5JN on Thursday 2nd February.

Swimming kits for 5SC on Wednesday 1st February.

Upcoming Year5/ 6 Mass in school – Tuesday 7th February at 9.15am – all families welcome.

Inset day – Friday 10th February

Wishing you all a happy weekend,

The Year 5 Team

Just a small snippet of 5SC swimming lessons . They all had fantastic fun and learnt lots of swimming techniques! 

https://padlet.com/gjacksonnash/6ck3l6lx1zrwu4am 

Check out our book reviews! Cassowary have been working hard reviewing their favourite and not so favourite reads.

Kookaburra class, feel free to upload yours! Just copy the link or scan the qr code to add yours!

Hello everyone,

Welcome back, we hope you had a wonderful break and enjoyed some well deserved rest. The children have come back raring to go!

In English, we have begun our new unit ‘Macbeth’ and the children are already very engaged! We started by looking at the opening scenes script, discussing the different devices the author had used. We then had a go at acting it out, then creating a picture (just like a stage director) of what the stage would look like and lastly adding strong vocabulary to describe the scene. We are very excited to see what happens next!

Next week in maths, we are starting our time unit and looking at the conversions/intervals of time. We have started our Christmas unit in RE with our key question ‘ How can the circumstances of Jesus’ birth inspire our actions today’. Other new topics include, coasts, swimming, crime and punishment, singing lessons.

Just a friendly reminder –

• Homework is due on Thursdays. This includes vocab, spellings, online maths and maths paper task.
• 5SC will continue with their swimming lessons on a Wednesday for this half term.
• PE will continue on Thursdays.
• Reading journals are due every 2 weeks. The next reading journal is due 20th January 2023.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend,

Year 5 Team

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