Our theme this week in our liturgy has been about keeping your faith strong, especially when people have sinned against you. The children reflected on the word of the Gospel and how Jesus teaches us to always forgive and the children used our class motto to reflect on this beautifully. The children were able to link this to our RE lessons this week as we focused on what a sin is and how we use our conscience to prevent us from making sins.
Excitement has certainly been ramped up in English as we have began preparing our planning stage for our first narrative write on our class novel. The children have loved applying their own spin to important characters in the book and are already thinking about what pieces of creative writing can they draw from this.
Today has also been our forest school takeover day as we spent the morning getting mucky, climbing trees, relaxing in hammocks and coming together as a team around the fire. We then spent the rest of the morning continuing with our properties of materials topic in Science as we looked at ‘solubility’ with a very interesting practical session to go with this. Tell your parents about what we were doing and the science behind each of the glasses.
Riddle of the Week
Test your parents on today’s riddle.
I have a head but no neck. I have two arms but no hands. What am I?
Question of the Week- conversation starter
This week, I tested your conscience with a game of moral dilemmas. Tell your parents about the dilemmas we discussed and see what choice they would make?
Let’s Celebrate
Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our winner this week goes to Hugo. You are just so helpful Hugo! You are always wanting to help both your teachers and your classmates. You have taken to life as an upper junior with real maturity, along with your leadership roles, and your teachers really do appreciate all of the support you are providing.
Learning Certificate Winner of the Week: Our winner this week goes to Bea for being an enthusiastic and creative learner. You are just an absolute joy when it comes to creative writing lessons Bea! You just love to write and to apply your own imaginative description in our writing, whilst also using our newly learned grammar skills. This stems from your enthusiasm and love of writing as to why you have produced such excellent pieces of work- keep this up!
Notices
Parent’s Day is on Friday October 24th - a great chance for us to have a good chat about how your child is doing. This year, we have two options - we can meet face to face at school, or you may choose to have an online Teams meeting with me. Please fill in the form below indicating which you would prefer, then we can block out the day appropriately.
Homework- Please check the homework blog for your child’ weekly homework, including the deadline date.
Sports Timetable- A full timetable for all of the sports opportunities this half term is available on the sports page of the school website [engage-sport] along with sports fixtures for this half term.
Year 5 Class Assembly Tuesday 14th October- The children will be performing their assembly twice in the morning. First assembly will begin at 9:15am and the next at 9:35am. You are welcome to attend both of these if you would like.
Year 5 Book Look Tuesday 21st October- This will be held at 9:15am and this gives you parents a chance to have a look at your child’s work so far in Year 5.