Year 5 – Page 33 – Pope Paul Primary

Carnival Time!

June 10, 2018/1 Comment/in General News, Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 /by Liz Heymoz

Thank you to all the children and parents who came to support our school today! The children looked fabulous in their poppy T shirts and the paper poppies and the crowns added a splash of colour to our walking float. I hope you all had a chance to visit the art exhibition and see some of the beautiful paintings on display. Well done to our football team for reaching the final today and playing so passionately for the school. We are all very proud of you! Thank you to all the staff for their hard work today. A special thanks goes to Miss Pringle for organising the football team, Mrs Theo for preparing the art work for the exhibition and Mrs McNamara and Mrs Joyce for driving car loads of equipment to and from school early this morning! A real team effort!

Wear Purple Day Thursday 14th June!

June 9, 2018/0 Comments/in Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 /by Margaret Joyce

Wear Purple Day Click here! pdf

Summer 2 Week 1

June 8, 2018/0 Comments/in Year 5 /by Margaret Joyce

Our first week back has flown by! In science, we have investigated electrical conductivity. We discovered that we are electrical conductors and then planned and created an investigation to see what else in our classroom was. I was very impressed with the children’s scientific enquiry skills.

We have now completed the printing of all t-shirts. They look amazing and I look forward to see many of the children wearing them in Sunday.

In maths, we have begun learning about percentages. We used materials to represent percentages in different ways.

Today we took part in the Blessed Sacrament mass and then a procession to the church. I was so proud to see how maturity the children behaved and how well they took care of their year 1 partners. Well done Year 5!

Have a great weekend

Mrs Lines

Home Learning:

Maths:

Mathletics

English:

Comprehension

Skills test book: section 2, test 1.

Happy Shoesday Fundraising: Tuesday 22nd May, 2018

May 26, 2018/2 Comments/in Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 /by Margaret Joyce

Photos and update for the website pdf PLEASE CLICK HERE

Spirituality Week Year 5

May 25, 2018/0 Comments/in Year 5 /by Margaret Joyce

It has been a wonderful final week of the half term filled with stillness, reflection and celebration. It was fantastic to welcome Grandparents to our classroom on Monday and share with them our artwork, poems and prayers. We then joined with Year 1 and pledged to pray for our partner throughout the week.

Year 5 also spent time thinking about the love in Jesus’ family by reading the story of the young Jesus at the temple. The children could relate to this story well and considered the emotions they would have felt. We also contemplated the big question, ‘what if we woke up today with only the things we said thank you for yesterday’. The children were shocked to see a list missing the most important things, like family and our homes.

On Thursday, Year 6 led us in prayer stations. The children acted with great reverence and enjoyed focusing their thoughts and prayers.

We concluded the week with another celebration morning for parents. During this time, we wrote prayers for our family and decorated them.

I wish you a wonderful half term and look forward to seeing you all on the 4th of June for our final half term of year 5.

Mrs Lines

Year 5 18/5/18

May 18, 2018/1 Comment/in Year 5 /by Margaret Joyce

I hope you all enjoyed your royal welcome this morning! The school have all had great fun this morning coming dressed as royalty or in red white and blue. Year 5 looked fabulous and we even had a corgi!

Also this week, our tennis lesson focused on our backhand skills. Some of the children showed off their amazing rally skills to earn their teams big points.

Have a wonderful weekend and remember your favourite shoes for Tuesday.

Mrs Lines

Home Learning

English- SPAG.com

Maths- Mathletics

Spellings will be given on Monday

Walk to School Week: 21st May – 25th May

May 14, 2018/2 Comments/in General News, Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 /by Margaret Joyce

We are encouraging pupils, parents or carers to swap four wheels for two feet and give walking a go this Walk to School Week 21st to 25th May.

As part of the challenge this year, pupils will be encouraged to wear the shoes that make them happiest – whether that is the brightest, jazziest or craziest shoes they own, to celebrate Living Streets’ Happy Shoesday on Tuesday 22nd May when we will be celebrating.

Our message in school is that walking to school is a brilliant way to get active and healthy. It’s also a great opportunity for our children to learn vital road safety skills and make sure they’re alert and ready to learn at the start of a new day. Walk to School Week is part of National Walking Month organised by ‘Living Streets’.

This year Living Streets is urging families to pledge to walk to school via their website. Please bring a suggested donation of £1.00, to be sent to Living streets, the UK’s only charity for everyday walking. Living Streets say:

parents who walk find the journey to school less stressful,
petrol bill goes down, and pollution
fewer traffic queues and parking issues
children perform better at school
Children & parents feel healthier and fitter.
Teachers report that those pupils who walk to school are more attentive once they reach their desks.

Over 400,000 pupils took part in Walk to School Week 2017 – and this year is shaping up to be even bigger.

Please join in and support this fundraising campaign!

Click on this link to show your support for this wonderful campaign.

Mrs McNamara, Tom and Conrad (Year 6)

Summer 1 Week 4

May 11, 2018/2 Comments/in Year 5 /by Margaret Joyce

Today we held our annual May celebration in honour of our lady. The smell of our classroom was beautiful this morning from the wide range of flowers the children brought in to place on our May alter. Thank you to so many parents who came to join us.

In science, we investigated solutions. We beg an by looking at 3 different liquids and deciding which one we would rather drink.

Many were surprised that the dark green liquid (made from food colouring) was the only one you could drink as the seemingly cleanest one was actually a salt solution. The children then created their own sugar solution, analysed data from an experiment and then designed their own.

Have a wonderful weekend

Mrs Lines

Home Learning

Write a poem or a prayer about grandparents and decorate it.

Please bring in a picture of grandparents for art activities next week.

As we have not completed our unit of learning on unstressed syllables, the smae spellings should be revised for next week.

Maths:

Mathletics

Summer 1 Week 3

May 4, 2018/1 Comment/in Year 5 /by Margaret Joyce

Another week in year 5 has flown by! We have continued to improve our sporting abilities in athletics with Coach Dugan and Tennis with Mr Mills.

In maths, we have been using our knowledge of area to build cube numbers and calculate their volume.

In science, we moved on to looking at thermal insulators. We ran another comparative fair test where we tried to keep a cup of liquid warm by insulating it with various materials. We create line graphs to present our findings.

Home Learning:

Maths:

Mathletics

English:

Comprehension

Skills test 8

Spellings:

We will be focussing on unstressed vowels.

definite

desperate

literate

secretary

stationary

dictionary

Wednesday

familiar

original

certain

Summer 1 Week 2

April 27, 2018/1 Comment/in Year 5 /by Margaret Joyce

Our English learning continued to focus on newspaper reports this week. We have now completed our accounts of what happened on the road to Emmaus and the miraculous discovery that was made. Year 5 used their knowledge of the genre to create a full description of what happened and how those involved felt.

In maths, we have been learning about area. The children built on their year 4 learning to find the area of composite shapes by using known information to find the value of missing dimensions.

This week, we began our new science unit about the properties of materials. The first property we discussed was thermal conductivity and we ran a comparative test to identify which material transferred heat the best. To do this, we placed 3 materials (wood, metal and plastic) into hot water with butter on the top. We then placed a pin in the butter and waited to see which pin fell out first. Many children thought that wood would be the best thermal conductor but our investigation clearly showed it was metal. We then thought about how we use these materials at home for cooking and why they are suited to their roles.

It has been a busy week in P.E. We continued to learn from Coach Dugan but were also visited by Mr Mills, a tennis coach. He will continue to work with us over next few weeks.