What a week it has been in Year 5 this week! Ranging from school trips, inspections, planters and world day of prayer, we have been kept busy. Thursday was a huge day for our school as we celebrated Catholic life through prayer, worship and our RE curriculum in the presence of the diosese. We came together as a class for our worship on this coming weeks gospel reading- where we looked at the importance of water and where it is found within the Bible. During our RE lessons, we have been recapping on prior knowledge of sin and the commandments in order to link these together.
Thursday was also an iconic day as it was also World Book Day! The theme this year was ‘your reading identity’ and the children certaintly let theirs shine through their costume and choice of books. We gathered together in the hall to talk about the greatest, and also most read book in the world, our Holy Bible as we shared some of the stories as a whole school. In the afternoon, we linked up with our buddy class to share our reading identities and to endulge in the joy of reading alongside others.
On Wednesday, we took a trip to Preston to visit the Science department at UCLAN for a day all about the Solar System. We were thrown straight into lots of learning and practical experiments as we transformed into scientists with our lab coats, safety goggles and gloves. The children all came home on Wedneday with some of the paper tasks that we carried out during the day.
And finally! To finish our week, we had a combination of ‘Love Yourself Day’ and ‘World Day of Prayer’. Lots of children braced the harsh weathers for our annual ‘People We Love Planters’ session, in which I’m hoping many of you parents would have recieved a planter gift from your children. For CAFOD’s World Day of Prayer, they have started in Nigeria this year, in which we had a Q and A session with the lovely Isioma, who enlightened us with what life is like in Nigeria.
Conversation starters
Science- We did lots of practical experiments and learned lots of new interesting facts about the planets of our Solar System. Tell your parents something new that you have learned from our trip to UCLAN.
RE- How many stories do you know in the Bible that include water? We had a lovely worship on Thursday all about water. The children could recite lots of famous stories in the bible that involve water. How many do your parents know?
Let’s Celebrate
Virtue Star: George Lett
You have been so intentional with your actions since coming back from half term George. You have reflected on your own personal targets within the classroom and have showed the right attitude and work ethic througout lessons. You were so prophetic during our morning of RE on Thursday by contributing so much throughout our worship and lesson.
Learner of the Week: Jackson
I knew that Wednesday’s Solar System trip would be right up your street Jackson. I loved how enthudsiastic you were about all of the different elements of the day and how engaged you were throughout all of our practicals. You came into the day with so much knowledge about this topic and it was amazing to see you shine infront of the university teachers leading the lessons.
Notices
Homework- Please check the homework blog for your child’ weekly homework, including the deadline date.
Monday 23rd March- Bring an Easter Egg to school. Children can come into school in their own clothes with the small cost of donating an easter egg for our easter raffle.
School Photo Day- Wednesday 25th March
Year 5 Easter Assembly- Wednesday 1st April
School closes on Friday 2nd April at 2pm