In English this week, Year 5 wrote their narratives they have building up to for the past few weeks. I was really impressed by their use of repetition for effect and the powerful verbs they included to provide interest for their reader. Next week, these will be edited and written up in their best handwriting.

In maths we have continued to focus on division.  Year 5 have put a lot of effort into understanding the short method and have been diving 4 digit numbers by a single digit. Next week, we will be expressing remainders in a range of ways.

It was the feast of the Ascension on Thursday and Year 5 took part in a mass at Our Lady and St Vincent via live stream. Mrs Moccia was pleased with the learning the produced on the significance of this event.

Today we started our entries for the Royal Mail Heroes stamp competition. This involved Year 5 thinking about who their hero of the coronavirus pandemic is and commemorating them with a stamp.

We finished our week with some Golden Time outside. It felt well deserved after the soggy week we had.

Have a wonderful weekend

Mrs Lines

Home Learning:

Mathletics

Studyladder

Readtheory.org- 10 tests.

Year 5 have worked incredibly hard this week. In maths, they have continued to work on fractions by adding and subtracting them and converting the answer from improper fractions to mixed numbers. In English we have thought about how to show the emotion of a character without telling their audience how they feel. We have also planned our writing which we will start next week. Our science learning on forces has continued by exploring friction.

On Thursday, we had a visiting cricket coach. The children took part with great enthusiasm.

Have a wonderful long weekend. I look forward to seeing the children in their summer uniforms on Tuesday 4th.

Mrs Lines

Home Learning:

Mathletics

Readtheory.org

Science whole school home learning- see school newspaper.

It was lovely to welcome the children back this week. We have been learning about the resurrection story according to Mark and we compared it to Luke’s version. Today the children made beautiful butterflies for our class display to represent new life.

There was much excitement on Monday for our Easter egg hunt. Thank you to FOPPS for organising this.

In D&T, we  completed our CAM toys. They have come home to you this evening for you to look at and play with. The children worked incredibly hard and were so mature in using the equipment.

Have a wonderful weekend

Mrs Lines

Home learning:

Studyladder

Mathletics

Readtheory- 10 tests.

In Year 5 this week, we have continued to develop our understanding of fractions and used cohesive devices in our writing. We have also begun building our moving toys by creating our frames and axles.

Today was Red Nose Day and so our mile a day run included balancing a golf ball on a spoon. Well done to Mishka and Sami Z, who represented Year 5in the end of day whole school joke assembly.

Next week, we will focus on Holy Week so today we sequenced the key events from Palm Sunday to Pentecost on a wreath.

Next week, Year 5 will form a choir for our Stations of the Cross at OLSV.  You can watch on the Livestream at 10:30 on Thursday.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Mrs Lines

Home Learning:

Mathletics

Study ladder

10 read theory tests.