Fresh Term, Fresh Start!

Welcome back! We hope you’ve all had a fabulous Easter- we’ve heard lots of egg-cellent holiday stories from the children! It’s the final stint until the summer holidays, our final term in Y5, so let’s make it amazing!

It has been lovely to see the children return fresh-faced and ready to learn and we have already packed so much work into this week! Hopefully we will continue in this positive light 🙂

A couple of important notices regarding our class timetable:

• Ukelele is now on Thursday mornings instead of Monday
• PE remains on Tuesday and Friday afternoons.
• Reading records are to be handed in each Monday morning
• Homework is to be handed in on Wednesday and sent home on Friday

Next week, Miss Frearson will be publishing our class newsletter with all the important information regarding exciting events ahead and what we will be studying in each subject throughout the coming weeks. But for now……

This week in maths, we have been so engaged and enthusiastic when donning our thinking caps to be maths detectives. Here are some snaps of the children working in teams to problem solve:

We have moved on to a new text in literacy…War Horse! Already, we can’t wait to find out what the book entails as we explore the book.

Last term, the children were put into groups of 3 or 4 to plan prayer services. Unfortunately, we had so many Lent themed ones that we couldn’t fit them all in throughout the liturgical season. Therefore, this week we’ve been having daily prayer services in order to experience the pre-planned ones before moving onto services themed on the new liturgical season, Easter. It been, both, a privilege to witness such respectful, thoughtful class worships and also truly beneficial for the children to learn from the ideas of other groups and constructive criticism. This way, they can build on their own creations and open their minds to thinking in a more holy, reflective manner too.

Malcolm was very impressed with Y5’s ukulele lesson this week, we seem to be improving all the time- and we love it! The children have quite the musical repertoire under their belts and can’t wait to perform for St George’s Day Afternoon Tea event on Friday 22nd April (where, since we did such an amazing job at St Patrick’s coffee morning, we will once again be serving teas and coffees!). Prepare yourselves, as soon as you click play on this video clip below…you might just want to send your child to the National Youth Orchestra….

As the weather is brightening, we are eager to start using the new playground equipment. To ensure each child is given fair opportunity to use it, the school have devised a rotating rota based on house categories. Each Monday, the class deemed attendance winners the previous week will be given an extra day with the equipment- an excellent incentive to raise our attendance! Then, the remaining days of the week are allocated to each house. Football is also being placed on a rotating rota to ensure safety and fair breaktimes.

Well done on such a superb week Y5. Have a fantastic weekend and we can’t wait to see you on Monday. Keep practising those times tables and spellings!