Year 5 Weekly Blog 06.02.26- 'You are the light of the world. Let your light shine before others that may see your good deeds'- Matthew 5:13-16

The week has certainly flown by as we edge closer to the halfway mark of the academic year. We had a lovely worship this week, with so much reflection and input from the children. The children were given just two simple words and two famous phrases from the bible as Jesus asked us to be ‘the salt of the earth’ and to ‘be the light of the world’. The interpretations behind the deeper meanings of this scripture was so delightful to hear and these inputs were really taken in by the rest of the class. In RE, we have been retrieving the theological virtues and beatitudes. We looked deeply at the virtue of ‘hope’ and what it means as Catholics to be hopeful and what we hope for in our faith. Mrs Gregan then set the children on an important task for our school display- to use their knowledge of the beatitudes to create their own versions. These will be displayed in the school hall from next week so please take the time to see these whenever you are present in the hall.

It has been independent writing week during English as the children created their own legend story, based on our class text of ‘The Legend of Gelert’. In Maths, we have explored area of shapes and used counting squares strategies to efficiently calculate area. In Science, we have looked at the different types of friction as we experimented with rolling friction by testing different surfaces.

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star: Myles

You are so eloquent and wise with your actions Myles. Your consistent pattern of always making the right decision just shows how truthful you really are. You treat all of your classmates with such calmness, kindness and love that your eloquence really does spread across the classroom.

Learner of the Week: Liam

You are just super focused Liam! When it comes to independent work, you are a man on a mission. You take all of your teachers instructions on board in order for your writing to be at the expected standard. This is also present in your maths lessons as well! Keep up the excellent work Liam!

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 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 23.01.26- ‘Whose who follow me will be honoured by my Father’- John 12-26

It has been a wonderful first week back for myself and to be back into the swing of the Our Lady’s life- Thankyou all for your loving messages. In our liturgy this week, we have looked at what it means to be a follower and a leader. We listened to scripture of when Jesus told his disciples to follow him on his way of life and we reflected on why so many people chose to follow Jesus. In RE, we have focused on the Lord’s prayer- Our Father. We have analysed each line in our prayer to really reflect and understand the powerful meaning behind those words.

The children have also finished their bikeability level 2 today with the children spending more time out on the roads with our instructors. You should recieve an email shortly regarding the outcome of their progress.

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star: George C

You are just so eloquent in your actions George, you treat everyone with kindness and you are always looking to make positive relationships with everyone you meet. You really are a valued member of our class as you display our virtues every single day.

Learner of the Week: Joseph

You have really impressed your teachers this week Joseph- we have seen a big shift in your focus during lessons and your determination to complete your tasks. You have applied yourself excellently throughout our short division work this week- keep up the good work!

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

• 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.

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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?

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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

Year 5 Weekly Blog 9.1.2026 - "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another" (John 13:34).

In RE this week, we have started our new branch; Galilee to Jerusalem with a focus on who Jesus is and why he came to us. There was time spent on the retrieval of the Ten Commandments and why these had been given to us, with the challenge to remember as many as they could. Before we then moved onto look at the New Commandment. Jesus didn’t come to undo the work of those who had come before him, but to build upon it and the New Commandment does this. Today with Mr Stocks, the class have looked at The Transfiguration of Jesus. The Transfiguration is a pivotal biblical event where Jesus's appearance transformed, revealing his divine glory to three disciples (Peter, James, and John) on a mountain. This is so special as it truly shows Jesus as both man and the divine figure that he is.

This half term, we are looking at what it means to be Eloquent and Truthful. As we look for God in all things and use his teachings to speak his words eloquently and truthfully in our every day life. This is something you can discuss at home too.

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Forest School

So much learning has taken place in class this week, led by Mr Stocks who will be with us next week whilst Mr Cornwell enjoys time with his family. From The Windrush book, to consolidation of maths and some excellent french! But I think the highlight of the week has been forest school where mud skincare was the choice activity - amongst shelter building and frog finding. The pictures speak for themselves!

Conversation Starters

In RE this week, we have been looking at laws and the new commandment that we were given. If you could create a new law to live by, what would it be and why?

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Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star: Rosa

Rosa has been really kind and welcoming this week; showing that she is a kind and considerate member of the Year 5 team.

Learner of the Week: Heath

Heath has shared lots of fantastic ideas this week in all lessons. There has also been a real focus on his effort to stretch his vocabulary.

Notices

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

• Bikeability will be on Friday 16th January and 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

Year 5 Weekly Blog 19.12.25- ' For God loved the world so much, he gave his one and only son'

What a magical week is has been! Tuesday evening really was the epitome of this wonderful week as the whole of KS2 sang their hearts out in front of a capacity audience at Church. The children were rewarded the following day with their KS2 Christmas Party, which included lots of energy, excitement and laughter. Throughout the week, the children have continued with their festive activities such as taking our buddy class around the travelling nativity stations, Christmas crafts, Christmas films, quizzes and much more! We ended our week together as a school in the hall , as it was the children’s turn to become the audience in the traditional staff panto! In which the children took great joy in watching their teachers look very silly on stage. The children have worked super hard this term and they really do deserve this break. Recharge those batteries, make lots of wonderful memories and have a safe and happy Christmas- we can’t wait to see you in January!

Conversation Starters

Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year because it is spent making memories with loved ones. What are you going to remember about your build up to Christmas in Year 5. What happy memories will stay with you for a long time?

Riddle of the Week

If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me.

What am I?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Term: Our awards this week have been voted by the children, for whom they think has displayed our virtues continuously throughout the entire term. The class have voted for… Phoebe

Learner of the Term: Our awards this week have been voted by the children, for whom they think has displayed all of our learning characters continuously throughout the entire term. The class have voted for… Liam

Notices

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

• School will reopen on Monday 5th January. Have a magical and Merry Christmas

• Bikeability will be on Friday 16th January and Friday 23rd January. You will need to bring in your bike and your helmet. If you have informed us on the sign up sheet that you require a bike or helmet, then you will be provided one.

  Mr Cornwell and Mrs Johnson

Year 5 Weekly Blog 12.12.25- ‘Peace on earth will come to stay when we live Christmas everyday’

What a final week of full learning it has been- the festive spirit has certainly ramped up as we lead towards our third Sunday of Advent. Our week has been filled with numerous trips to church to practice for our Christmas Carol Concert. In RE, we have been looking at the O Antiphons and reflecting on the deeper meaning behind these pieces of art. Later in the week, it was the children’s turn to create these pieces of wonderful and spiritual art and the results were fantastic! The end of our week has been very festive, starting with an invitation from Mrs Tierney to join her in forest school for a festive lesson on the forest symbols of Christmas. We then finished our lesson with a story of the ‘Winter’s Solstice’ around the campfire. Christmas week had truly began today with Christmas Jumper and Bake Off Day! Myself and Mrs Johnson were blown away with the festive bakes on show and they tasted amazing!

Conversation Starters

In Geography, we have been comparing biomes around the world and the animals that live within these environments. We finished with a ‘what is your favourite and why’ question about biomes. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live and why?

Riddle of the Week

I lose my head every morning but I get it back at night.

What am I?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are faith-filled and hopeful. Our winner this week goes to Myles. In the midst of all of the festive madness and the lead up to our final week of advent, you have such a calmness about you Myles that is needed in times like this. Your calm and composed nature allows you to focus solely on your task at hand and to remain faith- filled throughout this special holy time of year.

Learner of the Week: This week, our learner of the week goes to Isaac for being a determined and focused learner. You have really impressed me with your article writing this half term Isaac. You have applied your creativity along with our newly learnt grammar skills and layout. You were super focused during our independent writing of this and determined to finish every single feature of your article. Transfer this into all aspects of your learning.

Notices

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

• Travelling Nativity has started to go home so please use this as a special time to connect with Jesus and to get you in the Christmas spirit! This will need to be brought back in the following school day.

• We have began to prepare for our KS2 Christmas Carol Concert which is taking place on Tuesday 16th December. Song lyrics and recordings of our songs are on the homework blog for you to practice.

• Christmas Raffle- This will be taking place on Wednesday 17th December. Tickets are to be bought at the office.

• This is also the day of our KS2 Christmas Party. Children can come into school in their own clothes and are allowed to bring one chocolate bar and one small non fizzy drink.

• The final day of term is Friday 19th December and we will be finishing at 2pm

Year 5 Weekly Blog 5.12.25- 'Make your heart a manger so that it can be born to God'

The weeks are certainly flying by now as we travel through advent together in love, prosperity and reflection. We have just indulged ourselves into advent this week with no better way than with our Nursery and Reception Nativity performance on Tuesday. We then strapped up and bared the winter weather for some Christmas tree planting around our forest school area. In art, Mrs Mather has been testing the children’s drawing skills as they have been replicating the scene of the Nativity. We have also been down at Church for our first altar practice of our KS2 Christmas Concert, ready to fill our sacred place with song and scripture. To end our week, as a school we came together for our ‘Travelling Nativity’, again coming together with song and scripture to really celebrate this wonderful time.

Conversation Starters

In Geography, we have been comparing biomes around the world and the animals that live within these environments. We finished with a ‘what is your favourite and why’ question about biomes. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live and why?

Riddle of the Week

I have legs but I can’t walk. I have a back and arms but I can’t reach.

What am I?

Notices

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

• Travelling Nativity has started to go home so please use this as a special time to connect with Jesus and to get you in the Christmas spirit! This will need to be brought back in the following school day.

• The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Parental Guidance- We are currently reading this book as our class novel. We are due to finish the book just before Christmas and are hoping to watch the film during Christmas memory week. If you have any queries or issues about your child watching this film, please email me. If no emails are received, I will take this as a yes to your child being okay to watch the film.

• Christmas Bake Off- This will be returning on Friday 12th December. I can’t wait to see (and mainly taste) your chocolatey crimbo creations! This will also be our Christmas Jumper Day!

• We have began to prepare for our KS2 Christmas Carol Concert which is taking place on Tuesday 16th December. Song lyrics and recordings of our songs are on the homework blog for you to practice.

• Christmas Raffle- This will be taking place on Wednesday 17th December. Tickets are to be bought at the office.

• The final day of term is Friday 19th December and we will be finishing at 2pm

Year 5 Weekly Blog 28.11.25- 'Advent is a time for waiting for the Lord, who will visit us in all of our hearts'

In preparation for the beginning of Advent, we have been looking at the joyful mysteries of Jesus (can you remember these 5 in chronological order?). We turned the classroom into a scavenger hunt in order to find these key descriptions. We have also made our advent promises along with Christmas cards for our library- the Christmas spirit is really starting to come alive in Year 5.

In Maths, we have been working super hard with multiplying 2 digit by 1 digit numbers, using a variety of written methods. We have focused our learning on short multiplication as it is the most efficient choice of jotting. We have been practicing regrouping in different place value columns and using these methods to solve word problems. In English, we have finished planning our first news article- reporting on Peter’s first battle in Narnia! Due to nativity practices taking place all throughout the week, our PE lesson was moved to the classroom in which we took part in some class activities including ‘clapball’ and ‘don’t break the chain’. We also took a trip to see our Year 1 partners to share our pop up books, which have been created over the half term.

Conversation Starters

In RHE this week, we have had some personal and mature conversations about how our bodies are going to change over the next couple of years. As we know, these conversations are often awkward and embarrassing but very important to open up about so please make sure to ask your trusted adults any questions or worries that you may have.

Riddle of the Week

I have a head and a tail but no body.

What am I?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are faith-filled and hopeful. Our winner this week goes to Lettie. You are always offering a helping hand Lettie to both your classmates and teachers. You thrive in your positions of responsibility and I am so hopeful in you carrying these tasks out in the best of your ability.

Learner of the Week: This week, our learner of the week goes to George for being an reflective and enthusiastic learner. You have really thrown yourself into our English unit this half term George. I loved how you have you applied our previously learnt descriptive skills and new grammar skills into our article writing. I can’t wait to see your finished articles over the next few weeks.

Notices

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

• Travelling Nativity has started to go home so please use this as a special time to connect with Jesus and to get you in the Christmas spirit! This will need to be brought back in the following school day.

• The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Parental Guidance- We are currently reading this book as our class novel. We are due to finish the book just before Christmas and are hoping to watch the film during Christmas memory week. If you have any queries or issues about your child watching this film, please email me. If no emails are received, I will take this as a yes to your child being okay to watch the film.

• Thursday 4th December- We will be having an own clothes day in order to raise funds for our Christmas raffle. Instead of bringing £1, could all children bring in a bottle of something, which will be a part of the raffle. This can be juice, alcohol, bubble baths, shampoo etc

• Christmas Bake Off- This will be returning on Friday 12th December. I can’t wait to see (and mainly taste) your chocolatey crimbo creations!

• We have began to prepare for our KS2 Christmas Carol Concert which is taking place on Tuesday 16th December. Song lyrics and recordings of our songs are on the homework blog for you to practice.

KS2 Carol Concert

Every year, our wonderful KS2 children prepare a carol service in church for the community. The service is full of prayer, scripture and song - it really is a special afternoon and evening. The night time is especially spectacular in the darkness of the church.

The carol service will be held on Tuesday 16th December at 2pm and 6pm in church. For the afternoon performance, the whole school will be walking down with us, children will then be collected from school afterwards. For the evening performance, KS2 children will need to be back at church for 5.45pm, ready to start at 6pm. The carol service will be finished by 7pm.

It really is the most special way to end our school Christmas celebrations and we know all of our KS2 children will be there.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 21.11.25- 'Truly I tell you, you shall be with me in paradise'- Luke 23:35-43

This week in our worship, we have looked at Jesus’ final moments on the cross and even in his dying hour, he showed truly what type of king he is. The children shared their thoughts of what type of king they think Jesus is and we portrayed these ideas onto our class crown. In our RE lessons, we have continued to reflect on Psalm 23 and look deeper into King David’s relationship with God. We have looked at Jesus this week and how he is the good shepherd, with us being his sheep.

In English, we have turned into newspaper reporters and have been analysing the features of some newspaper clippings this week. We have been applying our newly learnt grammar skills of relative clauses and have been including these in our own article writing. In our spelling lessons, we have been getting active in finding irregular past tense verbs and understanding that these carry the same meaning of the root word but are spelt differently.

In Maths, we have been working really hard with our tricky negative number word problems which apply to real life such as temperature change, elavation drops and going up and down in a lift. We then started our new unit , which is one of our biggest, of multiplication. We started by multiplying 2 digit by 1 digit numbers by partitioning our larger number by using the grid method.

On Thursday, we had a lovely visit from the Fylde Council Recycling Team to talk to KS2 about the important of recycling and to inform us on how to use our bins correctly. Test your children at home on which items go in each bin so they can help out around the house.

Conversation Starters

In RHE this week, we have had some personal and mature conversations about how our bodies are going to change over the next couple of years. As we know, these conversations are often awkward and embarrassing but very important to open up about so please make sure to ask your trusted adults any questions or worries that you may have.

Riddle of the Week

The more you take, the more you leave behind.

What am I?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are faith-filled and hopeful. Our winner this week goes to Mia-Grace. You have become a much more hopeful person Mia-Grace and it is amazing to see- looking for the positives in every situation. You treat every member your class with such kindness and respect and this definitely links towards your faithfulness and your relationship with God.

Learner of the Week: This week, our learner of the week goes to Lucia for being an reflective and enthusiastic learner. I have seen a big shift in your focus, determination and enthusiasm for your learning this half term Lucia. You are getting so much more out of your learning and you yourself are starting to see the benefits- keep it up!

Notices

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

• Travelling Nativity has started to go home so please use this as a special time to connect with Jesus and to get you in the Christmas spirit! This will need to be brought back in the following school day.

• The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Parental Guidance- We are currently reading this book as our class novel. We are due to finish the book just before Christmas and are hoping to watch the film during Christmas memory week. If you have any queries or issues about your child watching this film, please email me. If no emails are received, I will take this as a yes to your child being okay to watch the film.

• Thursday 27th November- We will be having an own clothes day in order to raise funds for our Christmas raffle. Instead of bringing £1, could all children bring in a chocolate bar, which will be a part of the raffle.

• We have began to prepare for our KS2 Christmas Carol Concert which is taking place on Tuesday 16th December. Song lyrics and recordings of our songs are on the homework blog for you to practice.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 14.11.25- 'Lest we forget'

What a lovely and reflective week it has been in Year 5. Our worship leaders this week led us in a beautiful and heart touching liturgy on Tuesday as this marked Armistice Day. We used this as a time to remember those who are resting in heaven and to never forget. The children took a display poppy to write down the name of their loved one who are were remembering. In RE, we have continued looking into the life of David as Mrs Gregan reflected on his reign as king and the children referred to scripture to support their reasonings. To finish off, the children created their own crowns to reflect the qualities of King David. Later in the week, we analysed David’s famous Psalm 23 which portrayed his relationship with God. The children then reflected on their relationship with God to create their own psalm. Can you remember what number your psalm was and why we chose that number?

In English, we have zoned in on our non-fiction texts and started to look at the features of an article (can you remember all 8 features?) We applied this knowledge by analysing our first article text. In Maths, we have been continuing with negative numbers and have been applying these into various contexts such as temperature, sea level and hotel floors. We then broke down tricky word problems of these examples and created number lines to help answer these questions. In Geography, we have been looking into the countries and cities of the world as we expand on our knowledge of the world map. This week, we have been looking at capital cities- how many capital cities can you remember? In PE, we have begun our new sport of netball and have been applying various different types of passes.

Conversation Starters

In ‘My Happy Mind’ this week, we looked at different scenarios when our mind thinks we are in danger when our body isn’t actually in danger. Can you remember which part of the brain is working when this happens? Share the examples we discussed in class and see if your family members can relate to this.

Riddle of the Week

Test your parents on today’s riddle.

Poor people have me.

Rich people need me.

If you eat me, you’ll die. What am I?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are faith-filled and hopeful. Our winner this week goes to Martha. You are just so faith-filled Martha! You have such a positive outlook on life and you treat everyone with such kindness. Your learning partners really do appreciate these qualities and this allows you to build such loving relationships amongst school.

Learner of the Week: This week, our learner of the week goes to Ava for being an focused and enthusiastic learner. I have noticed a real shift in your focus and enthusiasm in this new half term Ava. You have reflected on the advice given to you by your trusted adults and have applied yourself brilliantly to all aspects of your learning and this is really starting to pay off- fantastic work!

Notices

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

• Travelling Nativity has started to go home so please use this as a special time to connect with Jesus and to get you in the Christmas spirit! This will need to be brought back in the following school day.

• The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Parental Guidance- We are currently reading this book as our class novel. We are due to finish the book just before Christmas and are hoping to watch the film during Christmas memory week. If you have any queries or issues about your child watching this film, please email me. If no emails are received, I will take this as a yes to your child being okay to watch the film.

• Monday 17th November PJ Day- Please bring £1 in to help raise money for Brian House so you can spend the school day all comfy in your PJ’s. Children can bring a reasonable sized teddy into school to keep them company whilst they are working super hard.

• Monday 17th November- Next week as part of our HRSE currciulum we will be splitting the class and joining up with year 5 to learn all about girl’s and boy’s bodies- if you would like to know what is being covered please look at our curriculum overiew for HRSE on the website, follow the button below to help direct you. Mrs Harrison will be delivering the girls lesson and I will be delivering the boys.

• Friday 21st November Year 5 Football Tournament- Please read the blog on the sports page regarding details for this event.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 07.11.25- 'They believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken' John 2:16-22

What a lovely start to the new half term it has been! This week in worship, we have focused on the word ‘temple’ and the children showed such good understanding of what this word means and how important it is to us as faithful learners. In RE, we have been looking into the life of David and how is qualities made him so inspirational within the Bible, particularly in the battle of ‘David vs Goliath’.

It has been an exciting start to our learning as well as Year 5 and 6 came together to share some of their writing as we moderated our work so we understand what is expected come the end of key stage two. The children loved running away with their imagination by writing about a visual stimulus and also reading stories from children in Year 6. We have also started our new English topic of non-fiction texts and we discussed some real life examples of texts that we have both read and written in our lives before. Can you remember the six types of non-fiction texts?

Conversation Starters

On Monday, we began our My Happy Mind lessons in which we recapped about the different parts of our brain (can you remember what Team HAP stands for?). We discussed how our hippocampus where all of our memories are stored. We had a lovely chat and shared some weird and wonderful memories that will always stay in our minds. Share your memory with your parents and see if they remember this. Do they have any memories like this of their own?

Riddle of the Week

Test your parents on today’s riddle.

What is tall when it is young and short when it is old?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are faith-filled and hopeful. Our winner this week goes to Albert. You have come back after half term and have been so focused and determined Albert. I am really hopeful for the progress you are going to make this year as you have reflected so well on guidance given by your teachers.

Learning Certificate Winner of the Week: Our winner this week goes to Anna for being an focused and cooperative learner. You have been such a role model of how to engage fully in your lessons Anna and this has really shown in your quality of work. You have been so helpful and loving towards your new learning partner at the start of this half term. Long may it continue.

Notices

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

• The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Parental Guidance- We are currently reading this book as our class novel. We are due to finish the book just before Christmas and are hoping to watch the film during Christmas memory week. If you have any queries or issues about your child watching this film, please email me. If no emails are received, I will take this as a yes to your child being okay to watch the film.

• Remembrance Poppies- If you would like to donate some money for a poppy, ready for Armistice Day on Tuesday 11th, we are asking for a donation of 50p per poppy which can be brought into class or received directly at the office.

• Monday 17th November PJ Day- Please bring £1 in to help raise money for Brian House so you can spend the school day all comfy in your PJ’s. Children can bring a reasonable sized teddy into school to keep them company whilst they are working super hard.

• Choir- If you are interested in joining the school choir, or are already an existing member, please sign the form below.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 23.10.25- 'Don't judge each other by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant'

And just like that, we have finished our first half term of Year 5! (and our longest one of the year). The children have settled into life as upper juniors excellently and have worked so hard over these past eight weeks, you all deserve a week off. We have finished our final week of the half term with celebration and togetherness. On Tuesday, we invited you lovely parents in for our annual book look, to show you how hard your child has been working and to get a glimpse into the Year 5 curriculum. On Wednesday, we carried on with our enrichment opportunities for the third year running. To start, the children went back to Year 4 with Mrs Lyons for a bit of musical theatre!

We ended our week by coming together to celebrate our harvest festival. Thank you so much for all of your donations ( I have never seen so many baked beans in my life). Photos of all of our collections are available on Mrs Gregan’s blog. We also had a special visit from two of our local police force to chat with Year 5 and 6 all about Halloween and Bonfire Safety. The children were very responsive and curious with their questions and answers and we may have inspired some future police officers in the making.

Conversation Starters

In preparation for Halloween and Bonfire night, can you remember the ways of how we can stay safe during these two events. Did you learn anything new about the Police, Halloween or Bonfires?

Notices

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

• The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Parental Guidance- We are currently reading this book as our class novel. We are due to finish the book just before Christmas and are hoping to watch the film during Christmas memory week. If you have any queries or issues about your child watching this film, please email me. If no emails are received, I will take this as a yes to your child being okay to watch the film.

• Choir- If you are interested in joining the school choir, or are already an existing member, please sign the form below.

• Parents Day- Friday 24th October- Here is the full timetable for parents day tomorrow. Appointments will be capped at 10 minutes to allow all appointments to start on time.

• School will reopen on Monday 3rd November. Have a wonderful week off!

Year 5 Weekly Blog 17.10.25- ‘I tell you, you will receive justice from the Lord’- Luke 18:1-8’

What a fantastic week it has been in Year 5! We may be seven weeks into the half term but the children are still showing signs of super focus, enthusiasm and work ethic throughout their lessons. We started our week by coming together in our class assembly by sharing some important messages that we have been discussing across this half term. The children sang and dance their hearts out whilst also delivering their powerful and purposeful lines.

We then ended this day also in unity as our worship leaders told us about the parable of the persistent widow and why it is always important to be persistent in life. We then followed this up by talking about how Jesus always wants us to keep praying and no matter how many times we pray, our prayers will always be listened.

Learning has continued to flow throughout the week with the children finishing their independent stories of ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’, which has allowed us to continue reading the novel past chapter two. In Maths, we have continued working with decimal numbers and understanding the value of each digit. This week, the children were very excited to try some ‘ Year 6 Maths’ as we introduced a brand new column- the thousandths. In Art, the children have working on themselves by drawing self portraits, using lots of different skills and techniques along the way.

Riddle of the Week

Test your parents on today’s riddle.

Which letter gets shorter when you add two letters to it?

Question of the Week- conversation starter

This week in RE, we have created our virtue projects ,which are aimed to either help those in need or to protect our environment by following God’s virtues and commandments. Share with your family what your project is going to be and why.

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our winner this week goes to Louisa. I was super impressed with your attitude and commitment in our assembly performances. You lead the way in both the order of speaking but also in what I was asking for during practices. You receive feedback so well Louisa and this will continue to help you grow as a learner.

Learning Certificate Winner of the Week: Our winner this week goes to Nathan for being an focused and cooperative learner. I just love how focused you are Nathan in the classroom. You understand our STAR expectations and you follow these to the best of your ability, which allows you to get the most out of your learning. On top of this, you are such a kind and co-operative learning partner and you use paired working to help maximise your learning.

Notices

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

• Parents Day- Friday 24th October- Please read the parents day blog on the Year 5 page and sign up for a slot to hear about your child’s progress and how they have settled into Year 5.

• Year 5 Book Look Tuesday 21st October- This will be held at 9:00am and this gives you parents a chance to have a look at your child’s work so far in Year 5.

• Harvest Festival Thursday 23rd October- This year, we will be celebrating harvest festival in school and as usual, each class has been given an item, in which we will be collected for the harvest. This year, Year 5 are collecting beans.
  
  
  

• Half term- School will finish for half term on Thursday 23rd October at normal time. School will reopen on Monday 3rd November.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 10.10.25- 'Lord, if you're willing, let me clean you'- Matthew 8:1-5

It has been a very reflective week in Year 5, especially in our worships as we celebrated the rosary on Tuesday on ‘one million children day’. It was lovely to see so many of the children’s rosary beads as we came together in worship on this special day. In this weeks gospel, we looked into the story of how Jesus healed the leaper and how he had complete faith and trust in him to carry out such a miracle. We then linked this to gratitude and the classed shared what they are grateful for in their life.

In our RE lessons, we have been looking at all things virtues and understanding what these are, especially with us as a school celebrating these in children weekly. We looked deeply into the meaning of a virtue and also different types of virtues such as theological and cardinal. Do you remember the difference between the two? In English, it has been a full week of independent writing as the children brought their creative ideas to life in our version of ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’. In History, we have been learning about the battle of Marathon and role played this to get a real feel for what it was like.

We finished our week off in good spirits as we celebrated World Mental Health Day. We discussed what we know about the term ‘mental health’ and understood how it is important to know that our emotions are constantly changing (just like the weather) and we discussed mindfulness strategies to help calm us down and also ways to help make us happy.

Kidsafe

Here is what we have learned this week in our kidsafe lesson.

Riddle of the Week

Test your parents on today’s riddle.

Which five letter word, spelt in capital letters, can be read the same when turned upside down?

Question of the Week- conversation starter

This week in RE, we discussed that virtues are habits and qualities that we have which makes us good people. Ask your parents what they would say their biggest virtue is and also what bad habit do they do the most.

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our winner this week goes to Rodnie. You really are a role model Rodnie when it comes to these two virtues! It is no surprise that you said these were your biggest virtues in our RE lesson and I couldn’t agree more. You are so attentive in your lessons and you apply such wisdom into your work.

Learning Certificate Winner of the Week: Our winner this week goes to Jackson for being an focused and creative learner. I have seen a real increase in your level of focus these past couple of weeks Jackson. You are super sharp when it comes to cold calling and have been able to get through more content because of your focus. I love when you put your own creative spin into your work whilst also hitting our learning objectives.

Notices

• 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.

• Parents Day- Friday 24th October- Please read the parents day blog on the Year 5 page and sign up for a slot to hear about your child’s progress and how they have settled into Year 5.
  

• 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.

• Harvest Festival Thursday 23rd October- This year, we will be celebrating harvest festival in school and as usual, each class has been given an item, in which we will be collected for the harvest. This year, Year 5 are collecting beans.
  
  

• Half term- School will finish for half term on Thursday 23rd October at normal time. School will reopen on Monday 3rd November.

Year 5 Parents Meeting- Friday 24th October 2025

Dear parents,

Thank you for responding to to the request for face to face meetings or virtual. I have 22 responses for virtual meetings and 7 for face to face. As you can see from the form below I have blocked off the times- so face to face is in the morning then virtual all afternoon and then back to face to face in the evening.

Please decide which time is best for you and email me with that time and your child’name. I will book these on a first come first served basis. The form will also be available after school at pick up.

email: c.cornwell@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

or press the CLASS CONTACT button on the Year 5 web page this comes directly to me.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 03.10.25- 'Even if they sin seven times a day and seven times a night, you must forgive them'- Luke 17:1-10

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.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 26.09.25- 'He is rich or poor according to who he is, not according to what he has'

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?

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.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 19.09.25- 'Demorcacy is not guaranteed. Every generation should preserve it, defend it and fight for it'

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.