Another wonderful week it has been in Year 5. In our RE lessons this week, we have looked at the true value of happiness and what aspects of life make are important to your happiness. It was lovely to see how the children voted on money being one of their lowest values to their happiness in favour of safety, love, family and friends. This led perfectly into our worship, where we focused on ‘wealth’ and read the story of The Rich Man and Lazarus, according to Luke 13:19-31. The children were really insightful and drew upon the hidden messages in the story such as using your privileges for the greater good and treating others how you would like to be treated.
Our English lessons have been full of excitement with us beginning our class novel- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. The children have been so drawn into our novel and have read with such expression, along with being super focused during our reading tasks when referring back to the text. The excitement of watching small clips from the film have really excited the children to draw so much description in their creative writing.
We have also began our first science topic of the year which is focusing on properties of materials. We looked at all of the different properties that materials can have and we applied this to everyday materials that we use in school.
Here are some of the key words from our lessons this week varying from key science vocabulary, tricky spellings in writing lessons and unfamilar words found in our class novel
Words of the Week
In our Kidsafe lesson this week, we have been learning about online safety and looking at the do’s and don’ts of what to do online.
Riddle of the Week
Test your parents on today’s riddle.
What type of bird would you use to carry really heavy weights?
Question of the Week- conversation starter
What makes you happy? I loved hearing your responses to this in RE. Ask the same question to your family members.
If you had to rank all of your responses from most important to least, what would it look like and why?
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 Phoebe. You have been so learned every single day of your Year 5 journey Phoebe. You are just so determined to get the most out of your learning and you always make sure it is to the highest of quality. You pride yourself on your book presentation and this just brings a smile to my face whenever I am marking your work.
Learning Certificate Winner of the Week: Our winner this week goes to Liam for being a focused and creative learner. You have settled into life in Year 5 so well Liam. You have just got your head down and got on with everything that has been thrown at you. Your focus has allowed you to get so much out of your learning and this has really come to life in your creative writing.
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.
Apologies again for the technical faults last week with the consent forms. Please could all parents complete this form ASAP.
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.
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.