Dominic's Sport's Afternoon- Friday 12th July

On Friday 12th July, Year 5 will be hosting a sports afternoon for the rest of the school in aid of Dominic and to raise money for the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Charity.

The children have been put into teams and will be hosting an activity/station for the rest of the school.

We discussed as a class what prizes we could have for our raffle. Some children have already brought in some prizes which is amazing such as old fidget toys, teddies, puzzles etc. Any other prizes such as big bars of chocolates, sweets bundles etc would be hugely appreciated. All children are allowed to bake cakes in preparation and to be brought in on the Friday- then our cake sale team will then sell these at break times.

Year 5 parents are welcome to attend and help their child with running their station.

Here is the list of jobs for each child

Money Collectors/Supervisors

Dominic and Rex

Football

Bella, Elsie, Archie, Rafe, Benjamin, Liam

Obstacle Course

Michael, Ella, Pippa, Ben

Benchball

Cora and Rose

Rounders

Arthur, Millie, Faye

Raffle

Esther and Ruby

Cake Sale

Roseanna, Riley, Layla, Jacob

Hydration Station

Erin, Luke, Gabby

Musical Games

Ola, Isaac, Niamh, Sophia

Year 5 Weekly Homework- Due on Thursday 11th July

Compulsory Homework

Spellings

  1. conscience

  2. conscious

  3. community

  4. environment

  5. especially

  6. foreign

  7. frequently

  8. guarantee

  9. immediately

  10. nuisance

English

Every child has a grammar and punctuation booklet in their homework folders to complete

Maths

Congratulations if you have ‘Gone Green’ on TTRS. Many of you are so close to getting green so keep practicing. If you are already green, focus on getting your time down to under one second- you know what the score to beat is! Check the new TTRS scoreboard just outside the create room.

Reading

Final reading target of the year! Let’s go out with a bang and reach our target to top off an excellent year of reading. The children will receive their new ZPD codes on Monday to help them pick books when in the library.

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 4th July

Compulsory Homework

Spellings

  1. temperature

  2. thorough

  3. twelfth

  4. variety

  5. vegetable

  6. vehicle

  7. yacht

  8. yoghurt

  9. independence

  10. determined

  11. soldier

  12. restaurant

English

The children’s weekly punctuation and grammar sheet has gone home with them and should be stuck in their homework books.

Maths

All children who have not ‘Gone Green’ yet, last few weeks of practice before the end of school. It is crucial that we ae going into Year 6 in September full of confidence with our times tables.

Reading

Have a check of how many words you have read this year? Are you happy with this? Can you set yourself one final target for the end of the year?

Year 5 Weekly Blog 21.06.24- ' Everything is better in pyjamas'

What an action packed week it has been! No better way to start the week than in our PJ’s for our annual Jim Jam Jog. Luckily, we were all good in terms of weather and both children and parents came into school in such good spirits. We raised so much money for a charity very close to the Our Lady’s and it was brilliant to have our firefighters with us on the field- joining in with our morning run.

This week also celebrated our much anticipated ‘Italian Day’. All of these preparation over the past few weeks in DT has led to the children cooking their spaghetti bolognese. A task that I had absolutely no impact on- all of the hard work came from Mrs Mather, Miss Neves and the children. However, myself and Mrs Gregan got to taste test their creations and there were truly delicious- very impressive I must say.

In English, we have finished our plan for our newspaper articles and have began to write up our final edition of the newspaper. The children have loved playing the role of a journalist in choosing their own professional title, choosing which newspaper to work for and creating some puntastically creative headlines.

In Maths, we have delved deeper into our fractions topic and looked at the connection between improper fractions and mixed number fractions and how we convert between the two.

Lots of Geography this week as we have looked into Britain’s natural resources and how we use these. This has been a great insight into how these resources affect our environment and how we as the eco class can positively impact this.

Let’s Celebrate

  • Cora for being an enthusiastic learner: It may be the last half term of the year, but you are still just as eager to learn than you were back in September. You have thrown yourself straight into our new fractions topic along with putting in the extra effort so early on into our play practice. You have also represented our school excellently in sports competition- playing with such enthusiasm and respect.

  • Rose and Pippa for being creative learners: Your creativity in our writing lessons always blow me away. All of those reading hours have been paying off. Creating catchy headlines, using puns, was a match made in heaven task for you two. I can’t wait to read the rest of your articles.

  • Virtue Butterflies: Our new virtues for the half term are grateful and generous. This weeks butterfly goes to Elsie and Michael. Elsie, you are always so generous towards the adults in our school. You are always offering to assist any member of staff in a task and you never mind doing a job when asked. Michael, you are so generous towards the other children in our class and are there to always offer a hand when someone needs cheering up.

Lunchtime Certificates

  • Marvellous Manners- Luke and Sophia

  • Role Model of the Week- Roseanna and Bella

Notices

  • Assessment Week- This week, the children will be completing their end of year assessments. Due to the children being so close to Year 6, the children will be completing 6 SAT style papers but tapered to the Year 5 curriculum. I have emphasised that this is more of a celebration of what the children have learned over the year and these scores do not contribute towards any outcome- so there is no need worry. One of these papers will be a spelling test so there will be no spelling homework this week.

  • Wednesday 10th July Music Concert- This will take place at 2pm of this day to celebrate what the children have learned this year in music.

  • Thursday 11th July- We will be spending the day at St Bedes, along with many other schools in our area for a ‘PE Day’. Children are to come into school in their PE kits so there will be no need for watches and earrings. Plenty of water will be needed.

Year 5/6 Dynamo Cricket Tournament

First of all, apologies for the late notice. We were given the wrong date initially and have only just been made aware of the actual date.

The tournament will take place this Tuesday 18th June at Lytham Cricket Club- starting at 1pm-5pm.

Due to late notice, we will offer transport to the cricket club but we can not offer transport back to school after the event. So if this option is chosen, we will take your child to the cricket club and then parents would take the children home from the cricket club, after the event has finished. You can pick your child up from school at 12:30pm and take them to the cricket club if you would prefer.

Lunches will be as normal, the children will have their lunch in school slightly earlier. Unfortunately, only 10 children could be taken to the event.

The children chosen to take part are:

Stanley, Evan, Owen, Leo, Edi, Archie, Ben B, Cora, Bella, Sophia

Please complete the form below so we know how each child is getting picked up from school.

If your child can not take part in the event then please let me know ASAP

Transport Form

Year 5 Weekly Blog 14.06.24- 'Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must. Just never give up'

What a way to kick off our final half term of the year than with Sports Day! I’m sure it is not just my favourite day of the school calendar but it will be many of the children also. Luckily, the weather held out for us and even the sunshine was present during the later stages of the afternoon. We could not fault the children’s effort levels and also their attempts to cheer on their houses. Feeling very tired and sore the next day, they were not thrilled to find out that we were running in their PE lesson on Thursday. However, the children got to experience yoga to also celebrate health and happiness week. This relaxation session, along with some vital stretching , I’m sure contributed towards their recovery

In English, we have began planning our newspaper article and keeping with the sports day theme, along with it being the Olympics year, our article will be around the events of ‘Super Saturday London 2012’. The children have read and responded to a celebratory article about this day, to help collect some background knowledge on the events of this day.

In Maths, we have began our final topic of the year- and it’s a big one in fractions. We began by creating a keywords glossary, in which the children can refer to over the next 5 weeks. We then have used pictorial diagrams to compare fractions and using our knowledge of denominators to add and subtract fractions.

Conversation starters…

In Geography, we have been looking at natural resources and some of Britain’s most valuable resources such as coal, petrol, natural gas and oil.

1) Research the current price for petrol in 2024

2) Discuss with your parents how this price has changed over the years

Let’s Celebrate

  • Arthur for being a determined learner: After two last minute pull outs- you were required to step up and swim far more than you were expected. You kept going all of the way and never stopped in the swimming gala (even with your goggles breaking). You showed such a positive attitude through out the whole morning and you cheered your teammates on throughout their races.

  • Faye for being a focused learner: I have notcied a real improvement in your focus with week Faye. You are becoming less tempted to turn around and chat to your friends- knowing when it is/isn’t the right time to do so. Thank you for taking on this advice and for reflecting over half term. This has given you more confidence in lessons in understanding the work and your hand is shooting up ready to answer questions.

  • Virtue Butterflies: Our new virtues for the half term are grateful and generous. This weeks butterfly goes to Esther. You are so grateful for your learning and any opportunity that comes your way.

Lunchtime Certificates

  • Marvellous Manners- Niamh

  • Role Model of the Week- Isaac

Notices

  • Monday 17th June Jim Jam Jog- This will start at 8am on the school field. Children to be in their pj’s for the run (parents feel free to also wear your pj’s). The money that you have been raising, can that be brought in as well.

  • Thursday 20th June Year 5 Italian Day- This will be the day that the children are cooking their Spaghetti Bolognese in food technology. All ingredients needed for this will need to be brought in.

  • Tuesday 25th June- The Year 5/6 Dynamo Cricket Tournament will take place at Lytham Cricket Club starting at 1pm-5pm. Please check the sports blog in the upcoming days to see if your child has been chosen to take part.

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 20th June

Compulsory Homework

Spellings

  1. sacrifice

  2. secretary

  3. shoulder

  4. signature

  5. sincere

  6. sincerely

  7. solider

  8. stomach

  9. sufficient

  10. suggest

  11. symbol

  12. system

Maths

Congratulations if you have ‘Gone Green’ on TTRS. Many of you are so close to getting green so keep practicing. If you are already green, focus on getting your time down to under one second- you know what the score to beat is! Check the new TTRS scoreboard just outside the create room.

Reading

Final reading target of the year! Let’s go out with a bang and reach our target to top off an excellent year of reading. The children will receive their new ZPD codes on Monday to help them pick books when in the library.

Swimming Gala Selections- Friday 14th June 2024

Friday 14th June, which is the first week back after half term, will be this years swimming Gala at Palatine Leisure Centre, Blackpool, FY4 2AP.

We were limited to around 4 children in each category.

Well done to the children chosen to take part.

Year 5 Girls:

Elsie, Niamh, Ella, Sophia, Esther

Year 5 Boys:

Benjamin, Luke, Isaac, Arthur

Year 6 Girls:

Millie, Iris, Tabby, Daisy

Year 6 Boys:

Owen, Max, Stanley, Edi

Arrival will be 8:45am as we are in the first slot for the changing rooms. Parents are to take their child straight to the leisure centre and then back to school. Scheduled finish time is 12:30pm so the children will have lunch at school.

Parents can stay and watch with their being a seated stand at the leisure centre.

Children to come wearing their PE kits (with their hoodies) and are to bring their swimming costume, towel, goggles, swimming cap for anyone with long hair and plenty of fluid to stay hydrated. Isotonic drinks are acceptable. No energy drinks. Water is advised.

Make sure to have a fueling breakfast as snacks are not allowed during the gala due to the children being poolside.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 24.05.24- ‘Humility has the ability to protect our common home’- Pope Francis

What a half term it has been! 5 down and 1 to go. With a very busy end to the week, we had to make sure the start was filled with lots of learning (which it was). In English, after learning and retrieving the features of an article, the children analysed some real life newspapers in order to find each of the features. The fun came with trying to decrypt the headlines by using our reading skills to work out the puns.

In Maths, we finished our conversion of metres, centimetres and millimetres and then used this knowledge to work with litres and millilitres. We also finished our history topic of crime and punishment- where we looked at modern day crimes and how they have impacted society and affected our prison population.

Thursday was a jam-packed day, with us having another visit of Frazier from Fylde Rangers. The class were tasked with trimming and organising our environmental garden in preparations for a potential forest school next year. The children also spent the day prepping for their cooking day after half term, with some tasting I believe taking place.

We finished the week with a CAFOD themed day, with a lovely visit from Diane, to show the children the importance of their fundraising and how their choices can impact communities around the world.



Let’s Celebrate

With us coming to the end of a half term, the children voted on their half termly certificate winners. The focus was engagement in lessons and how well they respond to teacher input. The children have voted for…

Rafe and Bella


  • Virtue Butterflies- Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our butterfly goes to Riley. I love the way you play at out on the playground and how you use your creativity to have fun. It is so joyful when you play with children in younger year groups.

    Lunchtime Certificates

    • Marvellous Manners- Roseanna

    • Role Model of the Week- Ola

Notices

  • Homework- Please check the homework blog for over half term.



  • Half Term- School to close for half on Friday 24th May at normal time. School will reopen on Monday 10th June.



  • Tuesday 11th June Sports Day- This will be the second day back after half term so feel free to practice the events over half term. The events and set up will be identical to last year- starting at 1:30-3:00.



  • Friday 14th June Swimming Gala- Due to our longer half term and availability at the YMCA pools, we won’t be able to host a trails morning to take race times in order to pick our swimmers for the gala. Therefore, the children who have registered an interest in taking part are to record their own times for freestyle (front crawl), backstroke and breaststroke. It will just be one length of a regular sized swimming pool (25m). Please can a parent or guardian record these times and then let me know their time either via email or written down and brought into school. Ideally, can these times be completed before half term but anytime over half term is great- allowing us to collect everyone’s times and choose who will be competing.



  • Monday 17th June Jim Jam Jog- Sponsorship forms have gone out to all children. Get fundraising for a brilliant cause. Money to be brought in on Jim Jam Jog Day.



  • Music Wider Opportunities- For the past year, your child has learnt a musical instrument as part of the Wider Opportunity Scheme in school. For our Year 4 children it has been the flute, and for Year 5, the clarinet. As your child progresses to their next class, there will be the opportunity for them to continue to learn the instrument that they have learnt this year, in small groups, if they choose to do so. If your child wants to continue, there will be a cost to these sessions. That will be worked out once we know how many children want to continue their instruments into the next year. 

    Please complete the form below as an expression of interest.

Year 5 Half Term Homework

Last chance to complete any of Summer 1’s optional homework. This can be documented/evidenced in a separate homework book marked ‘Learning Journal’. Please check last weeks blog to find these options.


Compulsory Homework

Spellings

  1. privilege

  2. profession

  3. programme

  4. pronunciation

  5. punctuation

  6. queue

  7. recognise

  8. recommend

  9. relevant

  10. restaurant

  11. rhyme

  12. rhythm

SPAG

The weekly SPAG sheet consisting of 10 questions has been stuck into the children’s homework books ready to complete.

Maths

Congratulations if you have ‘Gone Green’ on TTRS. Many of you are so close to getting green so keep practicing. If you are already green, focus on getting your time down to under one second- you know what the score to beat is! Check the new TTRS scoreboard just outside the create room.

Fractions will be our new unit of work after half term with lots to learn.

Z1- Fractions review

We have been doing lots of retrieval on percentages of amounts. Have a go at this IXL to keep our knowledge sharp. Remember these key rules:

10% (divide by 10)

1% (divide by 100)

50% = half

25% = quarter

HH9- Percent of a number

Reading

We have reached our class target of over 10,000,000 words for the year! Now it is time to focus on your own personal reading targets with only one half term to go!

Year 5 Weekly Blog 17.05.24- 'Punishment is not for revenge but to lessen the crime and reform the criminal'

What a week it has been! Monday through to Wednesday was just our usual working week with lots of English and Maths making up the majority, with us squeezing in our final crime and punishment lessons before Thursday’s trip.

As you may of heard, Thursday saw us take a trip to Lancaster to visit both the castle and the police museum. It really did feel like taking a trip through history with the castle being an old 15th century prison and the museum being a more modern 20th century prison. Due to some of the courts still being active in the castle, we were not allowed to take photos but we did manage to get some inside the museum.

We finished the week in a very vibrant way with everyone in green to celebrate ‘Green Day’, in order to raise money for our eco budget and to find more ways to support and grow our environment. Photos are available over on the eco/play blog.

Due to popular demand and with the presence of Miss Liddell (Speech and Language specialist) on our school trip, we used our class council time as an opportunity to learn a new language- sign language. The children were instantly hooked in the idea of learning a new diverse language and have focused on the alphabet, numbers 1-12 and personal statements such as hair/eye colour and names.

What have we been learning this week?

English- After starting our new topic of non fiction texts, we looked at the feature of an article and techniques that reporters/publishers use to hook their reader in.

Maths- Lots and lots of scaling up/down this week, especially with this being such a common skill used in Year 6. This has been used across both of our units with us needing to do this to find percentage of amounts (especially 10%) and also to convert between units.

French- It has been all things family in French these past few weeks. We looked at some basic family statements for us to practice and then created a basic french family tree. The children then had a go at drawing their own family tree- from siblings all the way up to great grandparents.


Deeper thinking questions

Every week now, we would like children to explore their weekly learning at home by discussing interesting questions with family members. This may be at the table during dinner, before bedtime or when out for a walk. However you choose to discuss these questions is up to you but this may give you more of an insight into what we have been learning in class.

What was you favourite part of the Lancaster Castle tour?

Which was your favourite room in the police museum and why?

Can you tell your parents your name in British Sign Language?


Let’s Celebrate

  • Esther for being an enthusiastic learner- You have shown such intuitiveness and interest during our history topic this half term. You really took in all of the information that was delivered on our school trip and I could tell that you found this information both useful and exciting. You deepened your knowledge even further by asking lots of curious questions throughout the day.


  • Sophia for being a reflective learner- Reflecting on feedback is such as vital skill in Year 5, especially when it comes to tricky methods in maths or constant use of grammar but you always reflect on this. You never underestimate the power of the purple pen and understand its importance. Your ever present perfect behaviour out on the playground also shows me that you reflect on what I share during council sessions.



  • Virtue Butterflies- Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our butterfly goes to Layla. I love the way you have been playing this week with lots of different people. Your variety of play and your bubbly energy really make you a brilliant playtime partner.


    Lunchtime Certificates

    • Marvellous Manners- Erin

    • Role Model of the Week- Luke

Notices

  • Homework- Can all children make sure that they are practicing their spellings and making sure their homework books are back in on Thursdays.


  • Thursday 23rd May Eco afternoon- Fraizer from Fylde Rangers will be joining the class this upcoming week for a big project in the environmental garden. Children are to wear jogging bottoms and long sleeve clothing to protect themselves from nettles.

  • Thursday 23rd May food tasting- The children will be making their spaghetti boloneise this week in food technology. The children will have the opportunity to eat their final dishes and to try other children’s. If you have any queries about this and would not like your child to take part then please let me know.


  • Half Term- School to close for half on Friday 24th May at normal time. School will reopen on Monday 10th June.


  • Tuesday 11th June Sports Day- This will be the second day back after half term so feel free to practice the events over half term. The events and set up will be identical to last year- starting at 1:30-3:00.


  • Friday 14th June Swimming Gala- Due to our longer half term and availability at the YMCA pools, we won’t be able to host a trails morning to take race times in order to pick our swimmers for the gala. Therefore, the children who have registered an interest in taking part are to record their own times for freestyle (front crawl), backstroke and breaststroke. It will just be one length of a regular sized swimming pool (25m). Please can a parent or guardian record these times and then let me know their time either via email or written down and brought into school. Ideally, can these times be completed before half term but anytime over half term is great- allowing us to collect everyone’s times and choose who will be competing.


  • Monday 17th June Jim Jam Jog- Sponsorship forms have gone out to all children. Get fundraising for a brilliant cause. Money to be brought in on Jim Jam Jog Day.


  • Music Wider Opportunities- For the past year, your child has learnt a musical instrument as part of the Wider Opportunity Scheme in school. For our Year 4 children it has been the flute, and for Year 5, the clarinet. As your child progresses to their next class, there will be the opportunity for them to continue to learn the instrument that they have learnt this year, in small groups, if they choose to do so. If your child wants to continue, there will be a cost to these sessions. That will be worked out once we know how many children want to continue their instruments into the next year. 

    Please complete the form below as an expression of interest.

Music- wIDER Opportunites in Year 6

Year 5 Homework 17.05.24

Homework will look slightly differently from now on, with us offering optional homework across the half term aimed at accessing the wider curriculum, engaging in fun and active tasks and to share your learning with your parents. Compulsory homework will still be live which will consist of:

  • Spellings

  • SPAG

  • Reading

  • Times Tables

The optional homework will have no deadline with this being optional but this can be documented/evidenced in a separate homework book marked ‘Learning Journal’.

Compulsory Homework

Spellings

  1. mischievous

  2. muscle

  3. necessary

  4. neighbour

  5. nuisance

  6. occupy

  7. occur

  8. opportunity

  9. parliament

  10. persuade

  11. physical

  12. prejudice

SPAG

The weekly SPAG sheet consisting of 10 questions has been stuck into the children’s homework books ready to complete.

Times Tables

Congratulations if you have ‘Gone Green’ on TTRS. Many of you are so close to getting green so keep practicing. If you are already green, focus on getting your time down to under one second- you know what the score to beat is! Check the new TTRS scoreboard just outside the create room.

Reading

We have really upped our reading this half term, with some children in the millionaire club, some doubling their word count for the year and lots of others making really good progress.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 10.05.24- ' You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you’

What a lovely and temperature rising week it has been! This week marked a special week in our liturgical calendar with it being the ‘Ascension of Jesus’. We celebrated this as a whole school at church on Thursday- marking the day Jesus Christ ascended into heaven. The mass was filled with many moments of delight and pride, with members of the public commenting on the children’s excellent behaviour and hymn singing.

In our RE lessons this week, it has been a very personal and reflective focus- with the children understanding what their conscience is and using this to decide moral dilemmas. Ask your child if they can remember any of these dilemmas and discuss what would you would do in that scenario.

What have we been learning this week?

English- And just like that, we have finished the famous ‘Highwayman’ poem. The children loved creating their own version of part 1 and also reading stanza by stanza of part 2 and predicting what happens next. We finished the week by starting our new topic, focusing on non-fiction texts. We discussed what this phrase means and linked our prior learning to retrieve common examples of this.

Maths- There has definitely been a year 6 level of focus and work ethic in our maths this week with the children juggling two different units and linking the methods used from each of them. Our first topic has been focusing on percentages and calculating percentage of amounts. Our new topic has been converting units of measure, with us experimenting with measuring heights and how to convert from m, cm and mm.

History- This week focused on a new method of punishment which was introduced in the 1700’s. A quick discussion into the method of transportation and explaining why as a country we chose to do this. We dived into a famous transportation case, where an 8 year old child was trailed and sentenced for this punishment and the consequences of this.

PE- We are now putting our individual skills together and using these in a real game like situations. The application and development of skills have helped create some fantastic games of cricket- both filled with high quality and competitiveness.

Deeper thinking questions

Every week now, we would like children to explore their weekly learning at home by discussing interesting questions with family members. This may be at the table during dinner, before bedtime or when out for a walk. However you choose to discuss these questions is up to you but this may give you more of an insight into what we have been learning in class.

Have any of your family members been to Australia? What was it like?

Who is the smallest and tallest member of your household? Can you measure them in meters and then convert this to cm and mm.



Let’s Celebrate

  • Archie for being a cooperative learner- Working as a team can often be difficult, especially when it is required both in the classroom and out on the pitch. Your teamwork skills stand out in the classroom, in which any changes of learning partners do not change your focus towards your learning. This year I have seen improvements outside on the playground with your teamwork. This is huge as you know the importance of this quality when it comes to team sports.


  • Riley for being a resilient learner- Focus is a big goal for you going into the last part of the year, I can see you have been working to improve on this- Keep going! I have also seen your resilience in subjects that you may not class as your favourites. You kept going when playing cricket in PE, having a really good go with the catches and to also not let your head drop when batting. 



  • Virtue Butterflies- Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our butterfly goes to Roseanna. You really are one of our role models when it comes to making wise decisions in the hall at lunch and out on the playground. You never put a foot out of line and our a pleasure to be in the company of.



    Lunchtime Certificates

    • Marvellous Manners- Benjamin

    • Role Model of the Week- Faye

Notices

  • Homework- Can all children make sure that they are practicing their spellings and making sure their homework books are back in on Thursdays.



  • Football Kits- If you have played for the school football team this year, could you have a look for any kits that you may still have in which they are to be brought back in. This will consists of blue top, blue socks and white socks. This will either be the Our Lady’s kit (with CN Active sponsorship) or the Premier League Primary Stars kit.



  • Thursday 16th May- We will be going on a school trip to Lancaster to visit the Castle and the Police Museum to further learn about our crime and punishment unit in History.

    Children are to wear normal school uniform for safety reasons and to all bring a pack lunch on the day. Children are to arrive at school for 8:30am for a 8:45 departure. The coach journey will around 1 hour so any children who require travel sickness bands then please do bring them.

    The payment for the trip is live on parent pay.


  • Friday 17th May- This will mark our annual ‘Green Day’ as a part of our eco commitments as a school. Children can bring in £1 to wear green own clothes. The money raised will go towards the children’s eco ideas that were created and voted during our council sessions.

  • Swimming Gala 14th June- Due to our longer half term and availability at the YMCA pools, we won’t be able to host a trails morning to take race times in order to pick our swimmers for the gala. Therefore, the children who have registered an interest in taking part are to record their own times for freestyle (front crawl), backstroke and breaststroke. It will just be one length of a regular sized swimming pool (25m). Please can a parent or guardian record these times and then let me know their time either via email or written down and brought into school. Ideally, can these times be completed before half term but anytime over half term is great- allowing us to collect everyone’s times and choose who will be competing.

Trip to Lancaster- Dinner options

Year 5 Homework 10.05.24

Homework will look slightly differently from now on, with us offering optional homework across the half term aimed at accessing the wider curriculum, engaging in fun and active tasks and to share your learning with your parents. Compulsory homework will still be live which will consist of:

  • Spellings

  • SPAG

  • Reading

  • Times Tables

The optional homework will have no deadline with this being optional but this can be documented/evidenced in a separate homework book marked ‘Learning Journal’.

Compulsory Homework

Spellings

  1. harass

  2. hinderance

  3. identity

  4. immediate

  5. immediately

  6. individual

  7. interfere

  8. interrupt

  9. language

  10. leisure

  11. lightning

  12. marvellous

SPAG

The weekly SPAG sheet consisting of 10 questions has been stuck into the children’s homework books ready to complete.

Times Tables

Congratulations if you have ‘Gone Green’ on TTRS. Many of you are so close to getting green so keep practicing. If you are already green, focus on getting your time down to under one second- you know what the score to beat is! Check the new TTRS scoreboard just outside the create room.

Reading

We have really upped our reading this half term, with some children in the millionaire club, some doubling their word count for the year and lots of others making really good progress.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 3.5.24- ' There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience'

This week in RE, we have taken our discussions of reconciliation and forgiveness further by looking into how we sin and how we use our conscience to make these decisions. The children really reflected on how they use their own conscience and what conversations they have with themselves before making a decision.

We also had our fifth enrichment morning of the school year, with Year 5 taking a trip down to Reception. The class spent the morning with Mrs Hartley for a lesson of German. The children were greeted upon arrival with some traditional German greetings whilst also learning numbers 1-10. They then tested their knowledge via a game of German bingo!

What have we been learning this week?

English- After finishing our independent write up of part 1 of ‘The Highwayman’, we began to dive into part 2. The anticipation has definitely gone up with all the action unfolding- with the children also not knowing what will happen next.

Science- This week, we decided the use our knowledge of the states of matter, including how they change, to practically discover which materials melt and which burn. This led to our discovery of the terminology ‘reversible/irreversible material’ .

History- The deep dive into the history of crime and punishment has taken a gruesome turn as we looked at the period of time when capital punishment was introduced. We examined one of the first hanging cases in England discussed the social and legal protocols behind this type of sentencing.



Deeper thinking questions

Every week now, we would like children to explore their weekly learning at home by discussing interesting questions with family members. This may be at the table during dinner, before bedtime or when out for a walk. However you choose to discuss these questions is up to you but this may give you more of an insight into what we have been learning in class.

Do you think having a jury system is correct? Would you change it?

Has any of your family members/anyone you know been involved in a jury?



Let’s Celebrate

  • Rex for being a resilient learner- Even being the speedster that you are on TT Rockstars, multiplication and division in Year 5 is tricky. At first, you let this get to you but you have persevered through hard work and focus and are really showing progress and fluidity during these lessons.



  • Niamh for being a creative learner- I never knew how much of a computer whizz you were! You have blown me away with your creativeness and your knowledge around purple mash during our game creating unit (Almost making it impossible for me to complete your game). I can not wait to see what your final game will look like.



  • Virtue Butterflies- Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our butterfly goes to Ola for being such a learned person. You are learning every day, both academically and personally. You take in and observe others to process what the right and wrong choice is which has led to you always making the right one.



    Lunchtime Certificates

    • Marvellous Manners- Arthur

    • Role Model of the Week- Ben

Notices

  • Bank Holiday Monday- School will be closed this upcoming Monday, so school will be reopen on Tuesday 7th May.



  • Homework- Can all children make sure that they are practicing their spellings and making sure their homework books are back in on Thursdays.



  • Football Kits- If you have played for the school football team this year, could you have a look for any kits that you may still have in which they are to be brought back in. This will consists of blue top, blue socks and white socks. This will either be the Our Lady’s kit (with CN Active sponsorship) or the Premier League Primary Stars kit.



  • Thursday 16th May- We will be going on a school trip to Lancaster to visit the Castle and the Police Museum to further learn about our crime and punishment unit in History. The payment is now live on parent pay.

Year 5 Homework 03.05.24

Homework will look slightly differently from now on, with us offering optional homework across the half term aimed at accessing the wider curriculum, engaging in fun and active tasks and to share your learning with your parents. Compulsory homework will still be live which will consist of:

  • Spellings

  • SPAG

  • Reading

  • Times Tables

The optional homework will have no deadline with this being optional but this can be documented/evidenced in a separate homework book marked ‘Learning Journal’.

Compulsory Homework

Spellings

  1. equipment

  2. especially

  3. exaggerate

  4. excellent

  5. existence

  6. explanation

  7. familiar

  8. foreign

  9. forty

  10. frequently

  11. government

  12. guarantee

SPAG

The weekly SPAG sheet consisting of 10 questions has been stuck into the children’s homework books ready to complete.

Times Tables

Congratulations if you have ‘Gone Green’ on TTRS. Many of you are so close to getting green so keep practicing. If you are already green, focus on getting your time down to under one second- you know what the score to beat is! Check the new TTRS scoreboard just outside the create room.

Reading

We have really upped our reading this half term, with some children in the millionaire club, some doubling their word count for the year and lots of others making really good progress.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 26.04.24- ' A true shepherd leads the way and does not simply point the way'

Such a beautiful and heartwarming week for liturgy and celebration this week as we came together for our Father Peter. On Thursday, it marked the 50 year anniversary of Father Peter becoming a priest, in which we celebrated together as the Our Lady family at church to dedicate the mass to him. The children sang Father’s favourite hymns with such love and created such beautiful gifts for him. I hope that the spreading of love and happiness from that mass is spread into your weekend as you read this.

What have we been learning this week?

English- It has been a very independent writing week as the children finished their final drafts of the ‘The Highwayman’ and began to construct their finished piece. You will be amazed with the creativity and imagination that the children have managed to entwine into their writing.

PE- Beautiful weather this week to match up perfectly with our chosen sport for the half term- Cricket. This week it was all things bowling, in which we broke the skill down and focused on the details of the teaching points. We then took this outside and practiced bowling on the right line and length in order to try and hit our wickets.

History- Our dive into crime and punishment from the 15th century onwards has taken us to all things ‘witches’. We discussed as a class what came to mind when we hear the word and if we could make any connections to what we already knew. The shock came to children when they discovered the severity of witchcraft belief back in the 1500’s and the strategies people used to catch and torture them. We then set up our own witch hunt around the classroom, for the children to find the reasons behind the rise of witch hunts during this time.


Deeper thinking questions

Every week now, we would like children to explore their weekly learning at home by discussing interesting questions with family members. This may be at the table during dinner, before bedtime or when out for a walk. However you choose to discuss these questions is up to you but this may give you more of an insight into what we have been learning in class.

Do you think having a jury system is correct? Would you change it?

Has any of your family members/anyone you know been involved in a jury?

Let’s Celebrate

  • Gabriella for being a resilient learner- You have really put the work in with your multiplication work and it is paying off. You are more fluent with your independent work and you are gaining more confidence from this- Keep this up!


  • Dominic for being an focused learner- I have been super impressed with your attentiveness and your focus during our tutoring lessons. All of your TTRS practice is paying off as you have been able to catch up on all of our multiplication work.


  • Virtue Butterflies- Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our butterfly goes to Faye. You really are a role model in terms of your behaviour and how you make wise decisions. This is always seen in class but it is great to see this outside on the playground- as this is a class target of ours.


    Lunchtime Certificates

    • Marvellous Manners- Elsie

    • Role Model of the Week- Riley

Notices

  • Football Kits- If you have played for the school football team this year, could you have a look for any kits that you may still have in which they are to be brought back in. This will consists of blue top, blue socks and white socks. This will either be the Our Lady’s kit (with CN Active sponsorship) or the Premier League Primary Stars kit.

  • Thursday 16th May- We will be going on a school trip to Lancaster to visit the Castle and the Police Museum to further learn about our crime and punishment unit in History. A text will be sent out closer to the time in regards to payments

Year 5 Weekly Blog 19.04.24- 'Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future'

What a brilliant week it has been. The warmer weather really does put us in brighter moods and allows us to access our learning in the outdoor environment. As always, we began our week with RE- where we looked at some key words and how some of our inspirational people from the bible have portrayed these such as love, compassion, forgiveness, mercy and justice.

We then ended the week with a trip to Hope Park to check our bulbs out- back when we planted them prior to Christmas. It was a pleasure to see the children’s hard work had paid off and we used the opportunity to have a class council session and also spend our break time.


What have we been learning this week?

English- We have come to the end of part 1 of our poem ‘The Highwayman’. The children have been really inquisitive in learning new vocabulary and making predictions about what happens next. The children feel really comfortable in identifying poetic devices throughout stanzas and love creating their own versions of these.

PE- With the unpredictability of the weather this week, we were lucky for our outdoor PE lesson to fall on a bright sunny day. We were able to use the field to help develop our cricket skills- with us focusing on both fielding and batting. In our indoor topic, our theme in dance is heroes and villains- where the children have been reenacting their chosen heroes via freeze frames to display their characteristics.

Art- The children have been experimenting and developing their portrait skills- partically self portraits- by using different mediums and mixing these together.

Science- It has been very experimental this week with our theme being soluble materials. We discussed the meaning of our new vocabulary and created common examples of this such as sugar and salt. We then experimented with lots of different materials to assess if they were soluble or not. We have also recapped on the states of matter and how they can change between states but also thinking deeply about how the states are different.


Deeper thinking questions

Every week now, we would like children to explore their weekly learning at home by discussing interesting questions with family members. This may be at the table during dinner, before bedtime or when out for a walk. However you choose to discuss these questions is up to you but this may give you more of an insight into what we have been learning in class.

How do you think crime has changed over your lifetime?

Do you think prisons really work?



Let’s Celebrate

  • Michael for being a brave learner- Being apart of a school that loves drama, especially with all of our Shakespeare work, is unique so it is brilliant to see children carry on that passion outside of lessons. Choosing to do this at break times offers a different and exciting experience for children, in which it is a brave act to organise on your own. Never be afraid to do what you love and you will reap the benefits.

  • Ben for being an determined learner- I have seen this both in and outside the classroom these past few weeks. As competitive as you are, you have put the work in during your SPAG work as you strive for a full house on your grammar check and also earning points for your house in the spelling tests. Your catching and throwing skills have been excellent in PE- where you showed determination when taking those really difficult catches.


  • Virtue Butterflies- Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our butterfly goes to Sophia. You do so much for the kitchen staff during lunchtimes in which they massively appreciate. Your manners are impeccable and really do light up the teachers day.


    Lunchtime Certificates

    • Marvellous Manners- Pippa

    • Role Model of the Week- Michael

Notices

  • Boys Football Tournaments- There will be a tournament after school for both the A and B boys football teams this upcoming week. They will both take place at Lytham St Annes High School (LSA) and this will be after school from 3:30pm-5:00pm

    • A Team- Monday 22nd April

    • B Team - Thursday 25th April

      CAN WE HAVE ANY SCHOOL FOOTBALL KITS BACK IN ON MONDAY PLEASE

  • Thursday 16th May- We will be going on a school trip to Lancaster to visit the Castle and the Police Museum to further learn about our crime and punishment unit in History. A text will be sent out closer to the time in regards to payments

Year 5 Weekly Blog 12.04.24- ' You are free to choose but you are not free from the consequence'

This week we have reflected on how our actions, regardless of their nature, have a consequence. We discussed what the ‘ripple effect’ is and how our actions can create a series of knock on effects- which is why we should always stick to our class targets of ‘being kind’ and ‘treating others how you would like to be treated’. We referred this to the Bible in how Mary is the untangler of knots- emphaising the importance of forgiveness and making the right choices.

And just like that, we are underway into our third and final term of the year! A mixture of nerves and excitement have been present in the children. Excited for the summer term, the nicer weather and closer to the six week break but also nervous of edging closer to their final year of primary school. The children’s focus, determination and resilience has remained on a high- even after the Easter break- allowing us to really get into our learning for the half term!

What have we been learning this week?

English- We have began our new poetry topic where we have began to investigate and read the opening of ‘The Highwayman’. The children have created a toolkit of their poetic devices and have been able to identify these in our poem. I have been super impressed with the children’s imagery and creative thinking- especially today when they were creating their own metaphors based from stanza one.

Maths- After two weeks of getting stuck into our long multiplication method, the children were amazed to discover ‘short multiplication’- a more effective way of using the same method but to answer bigger multiplication problems. The children have been able to use their times table knowledge to speedily answer difficult calculations- something they should be really proud of.

History- We have started our new topic- Crime and Punishment. This unit has hooked the children instantly, in which they have recognised the significance of the topic and understand the maturity that comes with learning it. We discussed about any crimes that we know of already and analysed these to rank them in order of seriousness. We then have been looking at what Crime was like in the 17th century- to understand why certain crimes were higher and what type of punishments were used.

Science- For this half term, our focus will be all things materials. We kicked the week off with looking at the different properties that a material can have and understanding what the vocabulary means. We have then experimented with different classroom materials to test which properties that have/don’t have.

Deeper thinking questions

Every week now, we would like children to explore their weekly learning at home by discussing interesting questions with family members. This may be at the table during dinner, before bedtime or when out for a walk. However you choose to discuss these questions is up to you but this may give you more of an insight into what we have been learning in class.

How do you think crime has changed over your lifetime?

Do you think prisons really work?

Let’s Celebrate

  • Arthur for being a focused learner- You have come back after the Easter holidays and got stuck straight into your learning. Your eyes and body posture has been centered towards the teacher which shows that you are ready to learn and you have been able to answer all questions when chosen straight away. Keep this up for the rest of the year!

  • Ruby for being an enthusiastic learner- I have loved your enthusiasm towards poetry and how you have just fully emerged yourself into it. You have enjoyed spotting our poetic devices in our new class poem and you have even been creating your own poems in your free time- which have been a delight to read.

    Excellent work!

  • Virtue Butterflies- Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our butterfly goes to Liam- you make such wise decisions both in and out of the classroom which really shows your maturity. You never let a game of football and the emotions get the better of you. Inside the classroom, even when you are sat with friends and they are not making the right choice, you still remain on task regardless of distractions.

    Lunchtime Certificates

    • Marvellous Manners- Rex

    • Role Model of the Week- Ruby

Notices

  • Eco Trip- We will be going to Hope Park on Friday to check now our bulbs have grown after we planted them before Christmas. We will be going from 12:30-2:00. This will be weather dependant so make sure to check the forecast in the lead up.

  • Netball Tournament- Mrs Gregan will be taking one team to the tournament on Thursday 18th April. Please check the sports page to see if your child has been chosen.