PE: Keeping possession of the ball

Music: Percussive cup accompaniment to What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor

Here is the link to the video so that you can practise at home:

Next Wednesday, we have our class Mass, in the Year 5 classroom, to celebrate the Feast of St Francis of Assisi. Please do join us.

Children, please practise the following hymns for the Mass:

Home learning for this week:

Maths	Mathletics assignments: ·         Converting to Roman Numerals to 1000 ·         Converting from Roman Numerals to 1000 ·         Roman numerals to 1,000 (Quest)
Reading	5 tests on Readtheory or 20 minutes of reading per day
Spelling	Log on to Spelling Shed using your EdShed login, and play a variety of games to practise this week’s spelling rule: Words ending in ‘-cial’ ·         artificial ·         beneficial ·         crucial ·         especially ·         facial ·         glacial ·         judicial ·         multiracial ·         official ·         special

See some of you at the St Vincent Mass on Sunday, and the rest of you on Monday.

Miss Donatantonio

It’s the end of another week, and once again it has been busy busy!

We have cracked on with our English, exploring and discussing the theme of refugees, which is central to our novel The Boy at the Back of the Class. Maths has seen a continuation of place value, including ordering and comparing numbers, and counting in steps of powers of 10 (10, 100, 1000 etc.). We began our Science topic about human growth and development, in which we had a brilliant discussion about the question ‘What if the average lifespan of a human was 200?’. We talked about how this would effect quality of life, overpopulation, climate change, poverty and crime, to name but a few points that were made. We also began our RE unit about the Sacraments of Initiation (Baptism, Eucharist and Confirmation).

PE started this week too, with swimming on Wednesday and fundamental invasion game skills on Thursday.

Geography and French also began with Mrs McDonald on Tuesday afternoon, as did RSHE, which focuses initially on the understanding that if we are made in the image and likeness of God, then we should value ourselves first and foremost.

Music continued with the theme of sea shanties and in their groups the children practised and performed What Shall we do with the Drunken Sailor, focusing on a steady beat and articulation. I was so impressed with the musicality within the class!

The children also completed their visual notes in Art, in which we looked at two landscape/cityscape artists: Vanessa Gardner and the Shoreditch Sketcher.

Home learning, which is due next Wednesday, is as follows:

Maths	Mathletics assignments: ·         Place Value to Millions ·         Numbers from Words to Digits ·         Numbers to 10,000 (Quest)
Reading	5 tests on Readtheory or 20 minutes of reading per day
Spelling	Log on to Spelling Shed using your EdShed login, and play a variety of games to practise this week’s spelling rule: Words ending in ‘-tious’ and ‘-ious’   ambitious infectious fictitious nutritious repetitious amphibious curious devious notorious obvious

Children were given their login details this afternoon (unless you received it at the Meet the Teacher meeting on Tuesday).

Have a great weekend!

Miss Donatantonio

 

And just like that, Year 5 has come to an end 😔It really has flown by, seeming like only a few months ago that you came into my classroom for your transition day, unsure how to feel about the prospect of being in upper Key Stage 2. You really have been a fantastic class to teach – so much enthusiasm, so many individual personalities, and so much care and kindness dictating your daily actions. I wasn’t able to thank you properly at home time today because we were all blubbering messes and I couldn’t string more than 3 words together, but thank you so much for making my job so enjoyable and for giving me a brilliant year. Thank you also for the generous gifts and kind words written; it is really appreciated 💖

It has been a fun-filled final week. The week began with our Mini Police assembly – which you wrote and delivered superbly. Here you all are, being presented with your certificates by the chief inspector.

Yesterday was the Summer Fun Day, which did what it says on the tin. Between the bouncy castle, Nerf guns, sponge throwing, rat splatting, duck hooking and body tattooing, we played the Pirate Game, which was as enjoyable as it was intense! The day ended with a bowlful of tasty treats. Thank you FOPPS for organising such a great day!

Wishing you all a fantastic summer, whether it is relaxed or adventure-filled!

Love Miss Donatantonio 🌞

The main causes for excitement this week were Sports Day on Wednesday, and Mini Police yesterday.

The children showed brilliant sportsmanship in the Sports Day events: they made sure they tried their best, they cheered their housemates on, and above all they had fun. Well done to all of you!

Yesterday, we had our third Mini Police session. We learnt about road safety, then about the different items PCSOs and police officers carry in their vests. The most exciting part, though, was being able to sit in the police cars and hold/pose with the police equipment!

Maths	Mathletics assignments: ·         Measure and calculate perimeter ·         Area of rectangles
Reading	5 tests on Readtheory OR a daily updating of your reading record.
Spelling	Log on to Spelling Shed using your EdShed login, and play a variety of games to practise this week’s spelling rule: Words from the Year 5 & 6 Statutory Spelling List   accompany communicate conscience desperate disastrous interfere nuisance queue restaurant rhythm

Have a lovely long weekend and I’ll see you all on Tuesday!

Miss Donatantonio

This week was Healthy Eating Week. Over the course of the week, we have tasted different flavoured waters each day: strawberry on Tuesday, lemon on Wednesday, lime on Thursday and mint today. We also learnt about wholegrains, then tasted wholewheat wraps and wholegrain cereal, which both proved extremely popular! Today was extra exciting because we tasted a plethora of weird and wonderful fruits. Thank you to everyone that contributed to our fruit bowl – we had a feast! Each child gave each fruit a mark out of 5, which we then turned into an average for each fruit and used the data to draw a bar graph. Have a look at the results!

Yesterday, we combined our recent Art and RE learning to do mixed media paintings of our interpretations of the Kingdom of God. It was a beautiful way to spend a sunny afternoon, and their artwork was fantastic!

Home learning

Your home learning is to design a lorry that inspires people to enjoy healthy, sustainable food.

Your design will be entered into a competition and the prize is having your design used on a real Aldi lorry!

The three winners (one from England, one from Wales, and one from Scotland) will also win a £100 Aldi voucher and an exclusive goody bag of Team GB and ParalympicGB items. The winners’ schools (or a youth groups/community organisation to be agreed with Aldi, Team GB and ParalympicsGB, if the winner is home schooled) will also receive £1,000 in Aldi vouchers to spend on kitchen equipment and produce!

Once you have finalised your design:

• draw your design clearly and neatly on to the entry template that was given out today
• don’t forget to design the back of the lorry on the back page
• enter your personal details on the second page
• return your completed entry to me on Monday.

Have a great weekend!

Miss Donatantonio