"The waterfall is natures laughter."

So sorry about the late post of homework last week! I know how busy families are at this time preparing for Christmas and I’m sure this failure to link the webpage was not helpful - please see this weeks shorter homework - I wanted to give the children time to complete their databases on Purple Mash so we have less this week.

Another busy week of learning in Year 5 …..

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"May your dreams defy the laws of gravity" H. Jackson-Brown Jr

What a super busy week! We’ve written more non-chronological text - as we finished our Ancient Greek work - for now (they keep popping up those Greeks). The children have used their digital literacy skills - to type and edit their work. We continued with these skills in our computing lessons as we typed our Advent promises. These promises will be displayed in class and the hall during this festive season. In preparation for Christmas too - we revisited the sacrament of reconciliation. In class, we completed a silent examination of conscience. This gave use the opportunity to reflect on what we have done and on what we have failed to do. Father Peter has been with us too to share the sacrament although he couldn’t listen to us all today and he will return next week. In maths we have puzzled our way through the week - so much reasoning and in science we studied gravity. Aristotle (ancient Greek) popped into the lesson, so did Sir Isaac Newton and his the falling apple. In RE we are exploring the depth of faith certain biblical figures had - truly heroic !! Please visit the wonderful Art gallery to see how creative we have been and in music we completed our Cop 26 Climate Change Rap we are filming next week - so watch this space!! PE progressed to Netball and the swimming progresses well! Finally, we started our new class novel - the perfect end to a packed week.

Awards this week:

This week the Grow your brain certificates went to: Lexi (retrieving all her history facts) Holly (super reading progress) and an extra one James for all round focus and enthusiasm! Well done!!

Important reminders

After great discussion about how to restart our charity work the children have agreed that if every family donates £5 we will be able to raise a large sum to present to Brian House. To do this they have planned two themed Fridays, the first on December 3rd – a Silly Sock or tight with uniform day - make your socks or tights stand out! The second on December 10th – a Christmas themed clothes day; a jumper, a t-shirt or simply Christmas colours. Mrs Hodges will organise ParentPay so that each family and members of staff can make a charitable donation.

Cap and sunglasses! We will be filming our rap next week - could you please bring a cap and sunglasses on Monday. As soon as we have filmed we will send them back home.

"Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends" Puck

What a joy it is to explore a Shakespeare play with children!!! We have had so much fun this week in class and in the forest beyond the field! We started by exploring power and status before we went through the whole play on Tuesday- this is called a “swoosh” were we understand who is who and the plot! We have invented some pretty scary fairies and today we explored how the four worlds in this play collide! Great fun so much creativity!

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