This week Year 5 were really excited to meet their Reception buddies. They gave them a special welcome letter to introduce themselves and then accompanied them to our celebration assembly. Year 5 will be developing their leadership roles this year and as part of this, they will not only be role models to their buddies to Reception but also play leaders to KS1.
Year 5 have had another great week of learning. The children have settled well and are really getting into the swing of things. Many of them have earned themselves lots of house points already because of their great attitude, focused learning, effort and great work. We’re now checking diaries and all bookmarks have now been updated . I’m so pleased to see so many have already read and are getting their diaries signed each night - house points are also rewarded for this. Well done Year 5, keep that up!
On Tuesday the children began their swimming sessions and we were delighted with the way they conducted themselves and represented our school. They made a fabulous start to their lessons and this enabled their swimming teachers to get them sorted into swimming groups quickly and begin working on their new swimming techniques. Well done Year 5!
Yesterday, we all went to church for our first school mass this year. Father Frank encouraged the children to make promises for this school year, one of which was to promise themselves that they would have a good year. I’m sure they will! Year 5 conducted themselves beautifully and respectfully in church, well done!
Our award winners:
Golden Award (LEARN) - Penny
Writing Award - Frazer
Maths Award - Luna
Our learning this week…
In English we have begun a new unit of work which will come from the book, Where We Once Stood, which details first-hand accounts of the six moon landings. This week we have explored new vocabulary and phrases from the opening extracts of the book and have looked at strategies to help us with the meanings of these words. We’ve also discussed whether or not humans should return to the moon and the children have backed up their views by giving reasons and justifying their thoughts.
In Maths the focus has been on the place value of numbers up to 6 digits.
In RE we have recapped the story of Joseph and have placed the story on a timeline of God’s people.
This week’s prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Ava and Eddie. The theme of their liturgy was Kindness. In the Gospel (Luke 14:1, 7-14), Jesus tells a story about people trying to sit in the best seats at a party. But Jesus says it’s better to let others go first and to be kind to people who might be left out. This helps us remember that we shouldn’t try to be the most important, but we should treat everyone with love and respect. Ava and Eddie asked the children to reflect on how they could be kind this week.
In science we have been considering different types of evidence, both direct and indirect evidence, for the shape of our Earth.
In Spanish, we have begun our new unit on the date and today we have been learning the days of the week.
In our computing lesson we have begun our new unit Mars Rover. During this first lesson, the children worked to identify how and why data is collected from space and identify a type of data which the Mars Rover may transmit back to Earth.
The new BEBCMAT Rock Stars Super League competition started this week and runs till the 24th October Good luck everyone!
Our school is currently in 6th place out of 12 schools in the trust and we have scored 220 points (school average score) so far.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
1st Fionn Year 4 1908
2nd Aibhin Year 4 1330
3rd Matilda Year 4 717
4th Amelia Year 4 646
5th Jacob Year 5 542
Well done to everyone on our leaderboard this week!👏🏻
At Our Lady's we like to support our parents/carers in Online Safety matters
Keeping children and young people safe online is one of the biggest challenges facing society today and it is all of our responsibility to ensure that children are educated to make positive, informed choices when they are online.
This month’s online safety guide gives helpful advice about…
What Parents and Educators Need to Know about conspiracy theories. The latest update to the DfE guidance document, ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ (KCSIE) identifies the safeguarding concerns posed by conspiracy theories. This guide will help you to understand the risks, spot the signs, build children’s resilience and safeguard against the harmful effects of conspiracy theories.
We hope you find these guides informative and helpful in promoting the positive use of technology to make the online world a better and safer place for us all. Thank you.
To read this week’s Good News Gospel reading, please follow the link to share the Gospel at home with your family. These are really child-friendly resources to share at home. Good News Gospel
Please also have a look at this Parent Newsletter linked with our weekly whole school and class worship…
Homework
A reminder that a summary of this week’s homework can be found on the Year 5 homework page. Please make sure homework is completed by the end of Tuesday ready for spelling and times table tests.
Well done Year 5, you’ve had another great week! We hope you all have a lovely weekend with your families.
Mrs McVey and Mrs Hodgkiss
