It has certainly been a week to remember this week in Year 5. One of the most talked about trips in school took place as we all spent the day in London at the Houses of Parliament! Our day started super early with us arriving at school at 6:45am with everyone on time! We then got the coach down to Preston station and caught the train to London Euston.

It was then the mad rush of the day as we made our way down to the underground and hopped on the tube to Charring Cross. From here, we took a lovely walk up Whitehall, passing famous statues along the way and also 10 Downing Street. This took us up to the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. We were then taken on our tour of the Houses of Parliament in which we got to visit both the Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords. Unfortunately, we were not allowed any photography in any of the houses. We then ended our visit with a school style workshop with activities based on what they had learnt on their tour.

After the Houses of Parliament, we had lunch in the Victoria Gardens outside of the Houses which had a lovely view right by the river Thames. We then talk a lovely walk up to ST James Park, where the children had some relaxing time to play. Our last bit of sightseeing was to Buckingham Palace where we saw that the King was in as the flag above was flying high, along with visits from lots of world news stations report the arrival of President Trump.

The children were full of energy and enthusiasm throughout the whole day (even on the coach journey back to school). I can not have asked for more in terms of the children’s focus, responsibility and respectfulness towards the people they interacted with. Here is to many more fantastic trips this year!

Riddle of the Week

Test your parents on today’s riddle.

What starts with e

Ends with e

but only has one letter in it?

Question of the Week- conversation starter

What was your favourite part of our London trip?

What did you learn on the trip that you found interesting and has stuck in your memory?

Let’s Celebrate

Our certificate and star winners this week are…

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our winner this week goes to Emilia. You have been an absolute delight to have in Year 5 Emilia. Your love and kindness towards everyone you interact with is just a joy to see. You apply this into your lessons when working with your learning partner and it allows you to get so much learning from these tasks. Excellent work!

Learning Certificate Winner of the Week: Our winner this week goes to Alice for being a focused and curious learner. You have blown me away Alice with how focused you are during lessons, you limit your distractions and you are always sat up correctly and tracking the teacher, an excellent ambassador for our STAR expectations. You carry this level of detail into your book presentation and creative writing which has been a joy to read and mark. Keep it up!

Message from Mrs Gregan

Whenever we start a new school year, we always have to migrate pupils and staff into their new class. This year, the technology that we use to do that has not been as successful for the teachers as it has been for the pupils. As a result, we have lost access to the Parental Consent forms that so many of you filled in prior to Induction Night. These have been deleted as groups have changed. Please can you spend another 5 minutes completing the consent form again this weekend. We are really confident with the information that we gathered before the forms disappeared, we just want to double check and make sure all information gathered is 100% correct. There was still some outstanding forms to be completed too. We are really sorry for the inconvenience and really appreciate you spending a little bit more time to ensure everything is as it should be.

These are available on last weeks blog. If there are any more technical issues then please let me know.

Notices

Homework- Please check the homework blog for your child’ weekly homework, including the deadline date.
Forest School- Those children attending forest school, a letter has gone home this week. We will be having our whole class forest school day on 3rd October. Those children attending weekly forest school sessions, you will be sent a text the night before as a reminder.
Here are a few reminders for any child attending forest school:
- Those wanting to climb the climbing tree, this cannot be done in wellies. You will have to bring a pair of trainers with you.
- Children need to get changed for forest school at lunchtime because sessions are to start at 12:50pm which is also the end of lunchtime break.
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.