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

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.

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?

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.