I hope you all had a wonderful summer. Our first few days in Year 5 have flown by and we have already gotten to grips with our new topics. We have begun exploring Scandinavia by using atlases and identifying the location of the countries, their capitals and closest bodies of water.

Year 5 have also begun their learning on space and I was impressed by how many of them could name the planets and tell me their order from the sun. We built on this knowledge by investigating their relative size and distance from each other using fruits. The children made excellent observations about the differences between rocky and gas planets.

For our first English unit this year, we have become poets. Year 5 have been streamlining their use of language by using fewer words and focusing on using more precise vocabulary. They have also communicated this learning by performing some paired poems based on a scene from Planet Earth II.

In R.E, we have been thinking about our school mission prayer and what it means to us. We have investigated where the beliefs have come from by looking at scripture.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to seeing you at ‘Meet the Teacher’ on Monday at 3pm.

Mrs Lines

In our penultimate week of year 5, we have been busy creating moving toys. Year 5 successfully created linear movement to make their toys bob up and down. As well as creating our toys, we evaluated them and explained why we were also getting some unwanted rotary movement. The children also considered why we were having trouble keeping our follower in line and helped to create solutions to overcome this. The reflections on their toys showed fantastic understanding of cams mechanisms- well done year 5.

On Tuesday, Year 5 collaborated with year 6 to complete a pieced of mosaic style art. The smaller square images fitted together to create a red, white and blue lion that is displayed in the hall. This time with year 6 gave the year 5 children the opportunity to ask questions about next year and find out what their last year at Pope Paul has in store. Thank you to Year 6 for their wonderful insights.

The entertainment continued this week as we watched the ‘Year 6 and friends’ performance. Year 5 were represented by Sean and Eden. Well done boys; your hard work and commitment were evident. We also watched the year 4 drummers this afternoon. Many of the year 5s were tapping away as the rhythms from last year’s learning came back to them!

On Thursday, the children visited their new classroom and teacher where they had a great time building newspaper tables. During this time, some of year 5 were asked to speak to the parents of our new reception children to explain what it is like to come to our school. They represented us wonderfully and showed how ready they are to be in year 6.

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Lines

Home learning:

SPAG.COM

Mathletics

What a fantastic end to our week.  The children gave their all and had a great day. It was wonderful to welcome so many of you during lunch time to enjoy a pic nic as a family. I hope you enjoy these pictures of the day and have a wonderful weekend.

Home learning:

SPAG.COM

Mathletics

We have been thoroughly entertained this week in Year 5. On Tuesday, we were treated to a dress rehearsal of the Year 6 production. Year 5 were a fabulous audience and I hope they were picking up tips for their turn next year! We also got the chance to see the guitarists perform in a concert. Well done Thomas, Marco and Sara; your practise paid off.

On Thursday, we attended our taster day at Nicholas Breakspear School. We were warmly welcomed and had the chance to experience life in secondary school. The children’s behaviour was exemplary and they were a credit to the school.

Have a great weekend

Mrs Lines

Home Learning:

Maths:

Mathletics

English:

Skills test: section 2 test 2

Comprehension

Spellings:

Committee

community

communicate

correspond

immediate

occupy

occur

opportunity

recommend

suggest