Year 5 Weekly Blog 15.05.26- ‘To be a saint is not a privelege for the few but a vocation for everyone’

What a week it has been in Year 5! We have been super focused throughout our Maths and English topics this week, with us diving into some tricky Year 5/6 fractions work by finding equivalent fractions and using this to add fractions with different denominators. In English, we have been planning and writing our final disucssion text of our half term, looking at whether school uniform should be banned or not? In RE, we have reflected on the saints of our Catholic community and analysed what a saint is and how someone would become a saint. Next week, we will be looking at the saint of our school, our mother Mary, in finer detail and depicting pieces of artwork of her.

The highlight of our week was our trip to Lancaster on Thursday, to visit Lancaster Castle and Police Museum. The children loved taking steps through history and seeing what we have learnt in lessons in the flesh. The children particulary enjoyed the unifrom department of the police musuem and dressing up as officers. We ended our week with a short walk to our parish center to spend the morning with our parishioners to come together as a community in the good old spirits of a ‘pub quiz’

Conversation starters

History- What do you remember about our trip to Lancaster? Tell your parents some interesting facts that you learnt on your day out.

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are attentive and discerning. This week, the star of the week goes to Phoebe. You are always so discerning Phoebe, especially when it comes to other people’s feelings and making sure they feel respected and included. You are so attentive to their needs and are always on hand to offer both emotional and physical support when needed.

Learner of the Week: This week, the learner of the week goes to Fletcher. You have absolutely loved our history topic this half term. You have gone about our learning in a mature manner, with the nature of the information, and have loved sharing your own knowledge during our discussions. You impressed our tour guides a lot with your answers to their questions and also adding in your own facts.


Notices

  • Homework- Please check the homework blog for your child’ weekly homework, including the deadline date.

  • Forest school takeover day Thursday 21st June- We will be spending the afternoon as a whole class outside. Please come wearing the appropriate clothing for forest school (no shorts and a coat will be needed). Children can come into school wearing these clothes to save time for them to get changed.

  • Swimming Gala Friday 22nd May- details are live on the sports blog of the school website for those children who have signed up for the competition.

  • Gym Jam Jog Friday 12th June- This will begin at 8am.

  • Sports Day Wednesday 17th June starting at 1:30pm

  • St Bedes Taster Day Wednesday 1st July- Children will need to come to school in full school uniform (no PE kits) with their own pack lunch.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 08.05.26- 'The natural word is the greatest source of excitement, visual beauty and interlectual interest'- Sir David Attenborough

What a week it has been in Year 5! A shorter week in days but still feeling like a long week in activites. Learning has continued to flow with us finishing off our focus of apostles and the apostolic mission in RE, as we looked at the stature of the church and where hiarachy of the laity and apostles in our Catholic Church. On Thursday, we took a grip to the Grand, along with Year 6, to see ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’. This is a powerful novel, based on a true story and current real life events, that the children will read in Year 6 next year. We ended our week in celebration of Sir David Attenborough. We came into school in our earth coloured clothes and we wrote biographies about our chosen icon. We finished this off by watching some of his classic documentaries from ‘Planet Earth’. Well done to chose children who entered the arts and crafts competition for this, your creations were beautiful!

Conversation starters

RE- If you wanted to become the next Pope, which 6 other roles within the Catholic Church would you have to have first? Can you remember the order of the stature of the Church?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are attentive and discerning. With no whole school assembly today, the winner of star of the week was voted for by the children. This week, the stars of the week are Myles and Scarlett- both recieving the most votes.


Notices

  • Homework- Please check the homework blog for your child’ weekly homework, including the deadline date.

  • Trip to Lancaster Castle and Police Museum 14th May- Please go over to this blog to complete the lunch options and also to see for departures and arrivals.

  • Swimming Gala Friday 22nd May- details are live on the sports blog of the school website for those children interested in taking part in the Lytham St Annes swimming gala.

  • Gym Jam Jog Friday 12th June- This will begin at 8am.

  • Sports Day Wednesday 17th June starting at 1:30pm

  • St Bedes Taster Day Wednesday 1st July- Children will need to come to school in full school uniform (no PE kits) with their own pack lunch.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 01.05.26- 'Mary shows us that God accomplishes great deeds through those who are most humble'

April has certainly flown by and by some miracle- We are in May! In RE, we have continued our work with learning about the apostles and their apostolic mission, in particularly ‘The Apostles Creed’. We have been analysing dogma by dogma to really understand the meaning of the statements and how that reflects with our Catholic beliefs.

Learning has continued to flow this week, particularly in Maths as we are flying through our fractions unit, with this week us looking at unit fractions of amounts. We have begun to plan our first discussion text write up by creating arguments and finding research about ‘Should all children learn how to swim?’

Children have continued to show their creativity in our gymnastics unit of balance movements with apparatus, by showing some excellent teamwork skills.

Conversation starters

RE- Can you remember what you chose for your badge for the Apostolic Mission, what would your parents choose to do in order to keep this mission?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are attentive and discerning. This week our star goes to Alana. You are just so discerning Alana, particularly when out on the playground. I always see you playing with different people, in order to make sure everyone is involved. You are always making sure your friends are okay and are helping resolve situations- rather than be at the center of them.

Learner of the Week for being a focused and enthusiastic learner goes to Louisa. Changing Maths/English places, along with base camp places, can make it difficult to focus with new learning partners and potential distractions. You have shown that this does not affect you and your level of focus remains the same throughout these changes. This has given you more confidence with your learning and you are seeing the results.


Notices

  • Homework- Please check the homework blog for your child’ weekly homework, including the deadline date.

  • Trip to the Grand 7th May- We will be seeing a live performance of ‘The Boy in the Back of the Class’ - a novel in which the children will be reading in Year 6. Payment is now live on parentpay. Children will be leaving school at 1pm and we will be picked up via a coach at 4:30pm. We will be back at school around 5pm. Please make sure your child has provisions for being picked up at this time.

  • Trip to Lancaster Castle and Police Museum 14th May- Please go over to this blog to complete the lunch options and also to see for departures and arrivals.

  • Swimming Gala Friday 22nd May- details are live on the sports blog of the school website for those children interested in taking part in the Lytham St Annes swimming gala.

Trip to Lancaster Castle- Thursday 14th May

The coach will be leaving from school at 8:45am, so all children need to be in school for 8:30am at the St Patrick’s road gate entrance (next to the school field).

We will be leaving Lancaster at 2pm to drive back to school so we should be back at school for 3:30pm. Any delays due to traffic or breakdown, Mrs Nel will send a text out to notify our ETA.

Children will need to be in full school uniform.

Please complete the lunch options form below. For those who do not complete the form, I will assume that you are having a pack lunch from home. Complete this ASAP so I can give Jacqui enough time to prepare in the kitchen.

Kind regards

Mr Cornwell

Lunch options

Year 5 Weekly Blog 24.04.26- ' As the Father has sent me, I am sending' John 20-21

What a lovely week it has been, with the sun certainly shining- both temperature and spirits have been raised. Our week began with a lovely trip to St Annes library, after an invitation to take part in a non-fiction project. The children were sent to find a non-fiction book of their interest and to find interesting facts for a wall display at the library. Children also got the chance to take out some books to borrow in order to read at home (12th May deadline for those who have done so).

Our focus this week in RE has been about the ‘Apostolic Mission’, we discussed what our key word ‘apostle’ meant and any connections we had surrounding this word. We then shared how we as Catholics can carry out this mission as we created our own badges in order to display this. Learning has continued to flow across the curriculum, with us moving onto multiplying both improper and mixed number fractions, improving our language to make our discussion texts more formal and to learning about new crimes and punishments taking place across history.

Conversation starters

RE- Can you remember what you chose for your badge for the Apostolic Mission, what would your parents choose to do in order to keep this mission?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are attentive and discerning. This week our star goes to Lettie. You are so discerning by always offering support and help to your members of staff, even across the school. I have noticed improvements in your attentiveness in class which has brought about more confidence in your academic ability.

Learner of the Week for being a focused and determined learner goes to Myles. Managing distractions is such a difficult thing to overcome, especially when we turn towards the end of the year. You do this so well Myles, even when you are close by to your friends, and this allows you to stay on task and hit those learning targets throughout the lesson. I have seen a big shift in your determination to complete your independent tasks which bodes excellently with your level of focus.


Notices

  • Homework- Please check the homework blog for your child’ weekly homework, including the deadline date.

  • Trip to the Grand 7th May- We will be seeing a live performance of ‘The Boy in the Back of the Class’ - a novel in which the children will be reading in Year 6. Payment is now live on parentpay. Children will be leaving school at 1pm and we will be picked up via a coach at 4:30pm. We will be back at school around 5pm. Please make sure your child has provisions for being picked up at this time.

  • Trip to Lancaster Castle and Police Museum 14th May- Our final history topic of the year will be ‘Crime and Punishment’ , in which this trip offers a detailed tour through history. Payment is now live on parentpay.

  • Swimming Gala Friday 22nd May- Mrs Gregan will be releasing details in regards to children’s interest and trail sessions for our swimming gala.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 17.04.26- ‘Faith is what makes things possible’

And just like that, we have started our summer term (our last term in Year 5!). You wouldn’t be able to tell that we had been off for a week as the children have jumped straight back into their school routines and learning has lifted off yet again. Our RE reflections this week have looked at the relationship between Peter and Jesus. We looked into the life of Peter and what made him so inspirational and one of Jesus’ most trusted disciples. We also analysed the strength of his faith by looking through bible passages to find examples of both strong and weak faith towards Jesus.

We have just finished our multiplication topic, by using our knowledge of factors and multiples to solve word problems. We have now begun our final Maths topic of year 5 (yes a 12 week topic!) of fractions. Just like our previous topics, this carries a large amount of times tables knowledge in which us being super speedy, will be vital in achieving those expected targets at the end of the year. In English, we are looking at discussions, arguments and debates. We started with some ‘rapid reasoning’ games in order to build our arguments, whilst also learning the difference between our three key words. We have had a very exciting indoor PE lesson, where we revisited our prior skills of counter balance movements in gymnastics- but this time with the apparatus!

Conversation starters

RE- Think of a time when you have had really strong faith? When did you feel really confident in yourself or someone else?

Think of a time when you have had weak faith? When did you feel unsure or unconfident about something?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are attentive and discerning. This week our star goes to Lena. By this point in our academic year, and preparing for Year 6, becoming independent learners is a huge part of being an upper KS2 child. I just love how you are always attentive to following simple instructions and you do this at the first time of asking. This allows you to focus more time on your learning. Keep it up!

Learner of the Week goes to Nathan. You have picked up in this final half term exactly where you left off before Easter-super focused across all of our lessons whilst showing such enthusiasm to learn and challenge yourself. This has been seen especially throughout our Maths and Science topics this week. Keep up the excellent work.


Notices

  • Homework- Please check the homework blog for your child’ weekly homework, including the deadline date.

  • Trip to the Grand 7th May- We will be seeing a live performance of ‘The Boy in the Back of the Class’ - a novel in which the children will be reading in Year 6. Payment is now live on parentpay. Children will be leaving school at 1pm and we will be picked up via a coach at 4:30pm. We will be back at school around 5pm. Please make sure your child has provisions for being picked up at this time.

  • Trip to Lancaster Castle and Police Museum 14th May- Our final history topic of the year will be ‘Crime and Punishment’ , in which this trip offers a detailed tour through history. Payment is now live on parentpay.

  • Swimming Gala Friday 22nd May- Mrs Gregan will be releasing details in regards to children’s interest and trail sessions for our swimming gala.

The Road to the Open - Trophy Tour

For the first time ever, both the men’s and women’s golf open is to be played in the same region this year - Royal Birkdale for the Men and Royal Lytham for the Women. One of my roles is to chair the sports committee for our local primary schools and through this, we have been asked by The Golf Foundation to run a competition in the lead up to the Open at Royal Lytham this year. The staff in our schools will be receiving training for our Year 5 & 6 pupils this coming Tuesday after school.

However, something much more exciting is being put in place. On Tuesday afternoon, our Year 5 and 6 pupils will be receiving a taster session from The Golf Foundation - and they will be part of the Trophy Tour. Both the Claret Jug and the AIG trophy will be on site at school. As part of the Year 5 & 6 afternoon, they will have the opportunity to talk to The Golf Foundation and have photos taken with the trophies whilst they are in school.

As this is such a monumental event, photography will be taken for media purposes by The Golf Foundation, local papers and possibly Granada reports, who we are hoping will cover the event just like they did for the Dance Competition in February. On Tuesday, the children will need to be in full PE kit - navy shorts (not football badged or those which are incredibly short) and the correct colour trainers - as well as school polo top or PE top and school hoodie.

As this event will be publicised beyond the school website, I need consent for each child with regards to the photography taking place. Please can this form be completed before Monday so it can be collated and shared with The Golf Foundation before Tuesday.

Thank you - Mrs Gregan

Golf Event Consent

Year 5 Weekly Blog 13.03.26- 'For judgement, I have come into this world so that the blind will see'- John 9:1-41

What a lovely flowing week it has been in Year 5. We have ramped up our Holy Week preparations by getting into the hall to practice our Easter assembly of the crucifixion. The children have really been getting into their role and have understood the importance of what they are betraying- we can’t wait for you to see it! In RE, we have reflected on previous knowledge to combine both conscience and sin and how we use these together. This led into our next lesson of ‘Heaven’, where we reflected on what we think heaven would look like and thinking about life in holy paradise.

Learning has continued to flow in Year 5. We haver been tackling lots of tricky arithmetic questions in Maths by multiplying and dividing decimal fractions. In English, we have created sci-fi specific extended noun phrases to help construct story openings. In Geography, we have gone old school by using OS maps to find the exact location of places on the Fylde Coast using 4 figure grid references. In RHE, we have been discussing the feeling of ‘Under Pressure’ and sharing our experiences of this, whilst looking at lots of different ways we can feel under pressure and also put children under pressure. We then role-played different scenarios of pressure as we had to guess which group had each pressure.

Conversation starters

Geography- We have gone old school, in a time where google maps did not exist, by using OS maps. Go on a scavenger hunt around your house to see if you have any OS maps and tell your parents how to find 4 figure grid references.

RE- When was the last time you used your conscience? We have been discussing how we use our conscience to make choices in our day to day lives, whether they are good or bad. Can you remember a time where you used your conscience to prevent yourself from committing a sin?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star: Martha

You are just so intentional and prophetic in your actions every single day Martha. You show so much love, kindness and patience towards your classmates. I have seen you provide a lot of love and support for your friends this week when they have needed it the most. Keep being that beacon of love and kindness throughout our school Martha.

Learner of the Week: Alice

I have loved your super focused attention this week Alice. You have been a woman on a mission when it comes to independent tasks and you are determined to complete the work to the best of your ability. This is especially seen when there is an artistic element to the activity, which we know you absolutely thrive in.

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

Year 5 Weekly Blog 06.03.26- ‘Indeed, the water I give them will well them up to eternal life’

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

Year 5 Trip to UCLAN- Wednesday 4th March 2026

On Wednesday 4th March, we are heading off to UCLAN in Preston for our new science topic of Space and the Solar System. Our workshop is from 10am-2pm so please arrive at school at the normal time, in our full school uniform (No PE kits). We will be leaving between 2:00-2:20pm so we should be back at school for normal school pick ups. If there are any delays on the motorway coming home, Mrs Nel will update everyone via text message on ETA back at school.

Please complete the form below for your childs lunch option for the day.

Lunch option for trip

Year 5 Weekly Blog 12.02.26- 'The Lord God took man and placed him in the garden of Eden to care for it'- Genesis 2:15

What a final week of the half term it has been! It’s amazing to think that today, we are already at the half way point of our Year 5 journey. Apologies for my absence for the first half of the week, a combination of illness and infection came at once. On Wednesday, we faced to harsh weathers and strapped up for our eco trip down at St Annes sand dunes. The children worked extremely hard by planting Christmas trees in order to protect our wonderful town from the sea.

We have also raced through what felt like one hundred pages of our class novel- on a mission to finish this before half term of our book the Windrush Child. The children were shocked and fascinated to learn about the history of Britain during the 1950’s and beyond in relation to people with different coloured skin. They may want to ask you some questions about why certain things happened and how to law has changed now.

Notices

  • Homework- Please check the homework blog for your child’ weekly homework, including the deadline date.

  • On Wednesday 4th March, we will be taking a trip to UCLAN Young Science Centre to prepare ourselves for our next unit of Science- The Solar System’. Payment for this trip is live on parent pay.

  • School reopens on 23rd February at normal time. Have a lovely half term.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 30.01.26- ' When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up to the mountainside. His disciples came and he began to teach them’ - Matthew 5:1-12

It has been a fantastic and reflective week in Year 5. In our liturgy this week, we have looked at the blessings Jesus told his disciples in the Sermon of the Mount, which were to be called the beatitudes. We discussed that a blessing is God’s offering of favour and protection towards someone as we reflected who in our lives deserves to be blessed. We have then looked into creating our own beatitudes in our RE lessons, along with recreating the story of the Good Samaritan through drama.

Thursday was certainly all things Science as we continued learning and experimenting with different forces, with us looking at air and water resistance. The children created their own parachutes and dropped these to show how the force of air resistance slows down the force of gravity. We then transferred our knowledge to the water and looked at how changing the shape, size and texture of an object will impact the level of water resistance.

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star: Alana

You are so eloquent and wise with her words Alana and more so with your actions. You treat all of your classmates with such kindness and respect, along with all of your staff members.

Learner of the Week: Louie

You just shine when it comes to creative writing tasks Louie, you bounce ideas off your classmates and blend this together to create some wonderful description.


Notices

  • Homework- Please check the homework blog for your child’ weekly homework, including the deadline date.

  • PE days for this half term: Outdoor PE will be on a Tuesday and Indoor PE on a Thursday

  • We will be taking an eco trip to the sand dunes for our annual Year 5 Christmas tree planting on Wednesday 11th February. Children will need to come to school in their PE kits (school hoody and long trousers). You will need a coat in order to attend the trip.

  • Parents Day will be held on Friday 13th February. Email me which time you would like as this will be done on a first come basis. The sign up sheet will also be available outside the Year 5 classroom during pick ups at the end of the day.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 16.1.2026 - Our Father, who art in Heaven.

We say the Our Father multiple times a week in school, and have done for many years. But what does it actually mean? In our RE this week, we looked at the prayer and took it phrase by phrase. The image here is the one that we looked at in class, I wonder if the children can remember what each of the lines means?

We also studied the word petition - a formal request, typically one signed by many people. The Our Father is full of petitions, but not only are we told what to ask for, but also the order in which to do it. I hope that next week, when we say the Our Father, we think a little bit more deeply.

The children also had a lovely surprise yesterday as Mr Cornwell brough baby Emilia into school to met the class. There was lots of cooing around and huge smiley faces! Mr Cornwell will be back in class on Monday.

Bikeability and Science

There are certainly two highlights to this week: Bikeability and Science. It has been a while since we have done bikeability with our Year 5 class, but if there was ever a class to do it, it was this one. Today, they have been out on the playground, and even out on the roads around the school. Next week, the children will need their bikes again as they venture a bit futher afield and learn the safety aspect of riding on roads at junctions.

In science, it was all about friction with jelly - who would have thought it. Using chop sticks and jelly cubes, they had to test the friction and which one was the most robust. A spot of oil was also used to see if there was an increase or a decrease in friction.

Conversation Starters

In RE this week, we have been looking at petitions. If you could petition for something, what would it be?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star: Lena

Lena has thought deeply about what she wants to say before she says it - showing true eloquence. We are so proud of your continuing confidence.

Learner of the Week: Ellie-Rose

Ellie-Rose has shown real focus and determination in her work this week with an amazing effort to provide detailed and well thought out answers. This was evident in her English and in her understanding of short division.

Notices

  • Homework- Please check the homework blog for your child’ weekly homework, including the deadline date.

  • Bikeability will be on Friday 23rd January. You will need to bring in your bike and your helmet and wear full school PE kit. Please dress warm as the children will be out and about whatever the weather. On the morning, please bring your bikes to the gate on Kenilworth Road where they will be placed on the playground.

  • PE days for this half term: Outdoor PE will be on a Tuesday and Indoor PE on a Thursday

    Mr Stocks, Mrs Gregan and Miss Johnson