Year 5 Weekly Blog 02.05.25- 'The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others'

Yet another week has flown by in our shortest half term of the year. It was nice to get a full week under of belts in this summer term before another bank holiday awaits us. The weather has dominated the week with sky high temperatures. It is important to make sure children come into school with a water bottle and are all sun creamed up and roll on or spray cream can be brought into school to apply later in the day. Regardless of the extreme temperatures, the children have still thrown themselves into their learning. Whether if its been argument building in English, multiplication in maths or understanding the laws of physics in science, the children have continued to work really hard.

This week, we have been learning…

• Maths- We have been using our new written methods of long and short multiplication to calculate numbers way beyond 12 x 12 such as 3 digit times by 1 digit numbers.

• Science- We have continued with our focus of motion and have looked into our final scientist of this theory- Isaac Newton. We have started to look at his three laws of motion and how these apply to our day to day lives.

• History- We have begun our new topic of Crime and Punishment this week as we look back through a 800 year journey into how both crime and punishment has changed throughout history.

• RE- We have been discussing what is a sin in detail and relating this to our personal lives. We then progressed to how we use our conscience to prevent us from making sins. We then put our conscience to the test by analysing some moral dilemmas as we shared our own personal views on different social situations.

Conversation starters

• RE- We have been looking into the life of Pope Francis and discovering how Pope’s are granted a coat of arms, which is a badge/emblem to represent your name. Talk to your parents and grandparents and see if your family name has a coat of arms.

• English- We have began our discussions text topic and have been creating points of view for our school themed questions.

  Are class council sessions necessary?

  Should homework be doubled or banned completely?

  discuss these with your parents and see what they think.

Let’s Celebrate

Learning certificate for being enthusiastic and determined goes to Daisy: You have been super determined in our maths lessons this week- it has been incredible! From the first minute of long multiplication you have loved it and have been willing to use your break times to do more questions. This enthusiasm has also been seen in our English unit with you wanting to share your points of view during our discussion questions.

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are active and curious. Our winner this week goes to Finley. You are so curious with your wisdom Finley it is amazing. You love to apply this wisdom by being so active in lessons by adding all of your existing knowledge, along with our learnt skills.

Notices

• Homework- Please check the homework blog to keep on track of your child’s SPAG, multiplication and division practice and also their reading.

• Forest School- This will take place every Friday for this half term. You will be sent a text the previous night to make aware who is doing this on which day as the class are split into groups. The children will just need to bring in a change spare of clothes- ones suitable for outdoor activities and working within a forest environment. Long clothing will be needed (no shorts).

  The groups are;

  Group 1- Daisy, Grace, Isioma, Jacob, Lilly, Logan, Matilda, Seth, Teddy, Toby

  Group 2- Amelia, Beth, Finley, Hudson, Hugo, John-Paul, Joseph, Poppy, Sean

  Group 3- Charlotte, Ciaran, Gus, Josh, Lorenzo, Louis, Rory, Rose, Tommy, William

  Each group will have four sessions of forest school spread out across the rest of the year.

• Extra Curricular Activities- Please check the sports blog for new and existing sports clubs taking place this half term, including game and tournament dates.

• Swimming Gala Trails- If you’re interested in taking part in the swimming gala, please complete the form on the sports page of the school website. The trails will take place on Friday 16th with the Gala being on Friday 23rd. You will need to bring your swimming costume, a towel and goggles to the trail session.

Year 4 Weekly blog Friday 2nd May "Never let a problem to be solved be more important than a person to be loved."

This week’s worship has centred around the story of Peter reconciling with the risen Christ. Children in RE this week have also learned the difference between an apostle and a disciple. They learned that the twelve disciples became apostles when Jesus bestowed on them the same gifts He had from His Father.

Our Holy Communion sessions are going really well. Children have learned about the eucharist. When we receive the Body and Blood of Christ, we become His body on earth and are called to be like Him.

We had a lovely trip to the Grand theatre to watch the RSC’s production of ‘The Tempest.’ It was lovely to watch the children recognise their own lines that they spoke on stage and watch them figure out what was happening.

This week in maths, children have learned how to add and subtract fractions larger than one whole. They are now learning how to convert fractions from mixed numbers to improper fractions.

A busy week in English! We have been learning more about the characters in our novel - they are very unusual and inspiring, especially the lead character, a girl named Lila. Children have written their own character descriptions using their year 4 features and have also written a persuasive letter. I am confident they have mastered these now.

In History, this week, children looked at two different accounts about the Vikings - one written by Anglo-Saxon monks, the other from the same year by Vikings themselves. Children learned to question evidence and form their own opinion based on it.

They then took this into their PE lesson with a Viking boat dance - see below

Conversation starters

History

Do you think that all Vikings were vicious raiders with not a shred of mercy?

My Happy mind

If you have a problem or hardship in your life, is there a person you would relate to and share this with? How can sharing problems help you?

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, it is yet another double whammy certificate! This goes to Jackson for being a reflective and enthusiastic learner. Jackson, you always participate in class discussions and you are working so hard! I love how you have listened to my feedback and acted upon it to help you improve your writing. Your enthusiasm for Science is beautiful!

Virtues

This half term are virtues are Curious and Active. This week Lucia gets our star. You use your curiosity all the time in lessons to find out more. You are actively acting on my advice and you actively notice if others need you.

PE stars this week - Myles and Bea for excellent portrayal of Vikings in dance.

Notices

Tuesday 6th May Holy Communion session 3 for children as normal afterwards. Pick up at 4:20. This is the last session before Holy communion itself.

Thursday 8th May VE day commemoration at school. WE are having a picnic outside as a whole school. Children can wear red, white and blue clothing. Jackie will prepare a picnic lunch for school dinners.

Group 1 Saturday 10th May. Group 2 Saturday 17th May

Please bring your children dressed to the Presbytery around the side of the church for 9:15am. You can then take your place in church, where the benches will be labelled with your family name. Please do not take photos in the service. You may take them after the mass on the altar or in the gardens.

On Sunday 6th July we are having the last school family mass in church. On this day, we are asking that all our First Holy Communicants come to church dressed in their outfits. They are then invited with you to the parish centre for a Holy Communion breakfast, organised by the parish. Please could you fill in the form below so we can get ideas of numbers?

Please see below for a Year 5 doughnut sale!

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend,

Mrs Lyons and Miss Bray

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 9th May

Maths

We have just began our multiplication topic where we are going beyond 12 x 12 and using methods to help multiply bigger numbers. We have practiced both long and short multiplication this week. Now you get to choose! Complete the questions stuck in your book using either short or long multiplication. To double check your answers, use both methods to see if you get the same answer.

Grammar and Punctuation

To complete the sheet stuck in their books. Follow the set of instructions to help present your work.

Spellings

Can you remember the theme in this weeks spellings. Is there a pattern with lots of these words?

1. cookie

2. keeper

3. rubbish

4. ladder

5. school

6. disagree

7. discuss

8. arrange

9. mammal

10. message

11. embarrass

12. excellent

13. exaggerate

14. especially

15. interrupt

Mrs Barkers group

1. room

2. keep

3. running

4. deep

5. scoop

6. lesson

7. school

8. little

9. effort

10. attack

Year 6 Weekly Blog ‘My God will supply all of your needs according to His riches in glory by Jesus Christ’ Philippians 4:19

Did you know we are now in Eastertide? A period of 50 days after Easter in which we see Jesus show us that He was alive. But how did he do this? In whole class liturgy this week we looked at John’s gospel and reflected on our ongoing friendship with the risen Jesus. In this gospel, Jesus shared a miraculous breakfast with His disciples and we discussed how we can trust that He will always provide for our needs… because he loves us always!

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Continuing to learn…

We only have one more (short) week until SAT’s. It is vital over this long weekend that children continue to revise and work towards their targets. I have set some papers to complete over the week for children to have a go at, but there are other areas that are unique to them as individuals that they know they also have to practice. Please have a look at the homework page and have the conversation with them to see how best to support them with their revision. This week we have had a practise SAT’s week, where every day they have took one mock, whether this is independently or in partners. We are so proud how they have tackle this with such a positive attitude and resilience!

English - This week we have revised our determiners and prepositions!

Maths - We have tackled some tricky ratio problems with Mrs Harrison, revised BODMAS with Mrs Barker and also revised converting measures, which we will contunue next week.

Delving deeper through talk ….

What do you think certain items around your houehold weighs or measures? Can you convert these measurments, for example weigh in grams and kg?

With only one week left until SAT’s what is the one area you want to practise and master? How can your parent help you?

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Curious and Active stars

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that are curious in their , finding God in all things. Those who are active, who use their learning for the common good. Those who learn through actively engaging through probing, seeking, asking, challenging and questioning until the truth is plain. These children are the role models of the school, who drive their own learning and who have the wisdom to know when and how to apply one’s learning. This week we thank Michael for being both curious and wise.

Leading Learners

Well done to Bella this week.

Bella It is so important to apply the skills you have been taught and to do this independently-  you have shown that you CAN. You have learnt to be thorough, take your time but mostly believe in yourself as you can do anything you put your mind to! Well done for reflecting on feedback and doing what you can to improve. You are also very honest about what you need to work on and are always happy to share this, ready to rise to a challenge.

Helpers in the morning

This week we have the following children helping to take the younger children to their class:

Michael Elsie Niamh Riley

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Notices

Please can all the children bring in a shoe box for art by next Friday- thank you!

Next Tuesday 6th May- A Team football tournament. Please be collected from school agt 3:15pm ready to play agt AKS at 3:45pm- astro so trainers please!

Next Thursday 8th May- RED, WHITE AND BLUE day to celebrate VE day. We will be having a whole school picnic so please see Mrs Gregan’s blog to sign up!

Friday 16th May- does your child want to trial for the dwimming gala? If so please complete the form and read the blog on the discover/ sport section.

SATs week - Monday 12th - Thursday 15th May. Please ensure that your child is in school on time after a really good night sleep and a substantial breakfast.

Thursday 15th May - End of year play read through - ALL WILL BE REVEALED!

Friday 16th May- Auditions

Friday 16th- Year 5 charity donut sale!

Thursday 22nd May - Formal interviews with Mrs Gregan for positions around school. The children can come into school in formal interview wear. Dress to impress!

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Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Barker

This week...

The weather keeps getting better and better…and we are loving it! Whenever possible we have chosen to do our learning outdoors. Our tadpoles are getting bigger and bigger, no back legs yet though. On Wednesday Mrs. Tierney took some of the tadpoles to a new home in the forest school garden pond. they all look happy and settled in their new environment.!

The meadow seeds we planted a few weeks ago have germinated and started to grow. The children have been popping to the poly tunnel each day to water the veggies…not shooting yet.

Worship

This week in prayer and liturgy Mrs. Gregan told the story of doubting Thomas. In the Bible, the apostle Thomas initially doubted the accounts of Jesus' resurrection from the other disciples. This story is often used to teach us about faith, trust, and the importance of having a belief system, while also acknowledging that some people may have doubts. We discussed "What do you think it would be like to be Doubting Thomas? Why might he have felt that way?" or "How do we show trust in others in our daily lives?".  Click here to watch a short video about doubting Thomas.

Emma’s Blog

Hello everyone 

We have really enjoyed being outside this week in the sunshine. The sun makes everyone feel so happy, including our tadpoles, which are growing really big now. The children can't wait to see their legs start to grow. 

We read a story called Rapunzel as part of our ‘Once Upon a Time’ learning thread. Rapunzel had very long hair in the story, so we thought we could grow our own Rapunzel ‘hair’ from cress. The children used a plastic see-through cup so they could see when the seeds started to geminate…it didn’t take long. We put cotton wool inside the cup to make a cosy bed for the seeds, gave them a drink of water and put them where it was light and bright. We waited. The children drew Rapunzel’s face on the cup so the cress would represent her hair. Everyday we checked to see if the seeds had germinated, and within 6 days, the children’s Rapunzels all had cress hair! The children used a ruler to see how long the cress had grown. Some of the childrens cress had grown to 12cm long. Here is a video of the story Rapunzel. Enjoy. 

Click here to watch how to grow cress at home.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone, and enjoy the sunshine.

 Emma 

Michelle’s blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog.

We have had glorious weather this week and we have made the most of it as we continue to watch the tadpoles grow bigger. We are still waiting for them to start growing legs but they are getting much bigger now. 

We have started our research about all things ‘creepy crawlie’ as we set off on a bug hunt. We found woodlice, slugs, spiders and ants. We hope to find many more. Why don't you go on your own bug hunt? Click here.

We have been practising our positional language skills and checked our learning by having a quiz at home. Click here.

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the weather 

Michelle 

VE Day celebrations

Next Thursday nursery will be joining the whole school for a picnic lunch on the field. If your child is present on that day we are asking if they could wear red, white and blue coloured clothing!!! Let’s hope the sun continues to shine!

Have a fabulous Bank Holiday weekend everyone. I have lots of gardening planned in the sunshine, maybe followed by a little snooze!

See you on Tuesday

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 2 weekly blog Friday 2nd May "Love Our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle." Josemaria Escriva

This week we turn to Our Lady. The month of May has begun and so does our adoration for Jesus’ mother. Our Worship table has a beautiful statue and next week we will share the Rosary during worship time. If you have rosary beads at home please bring them into class and they can sit on the altar ready to be used. In RE we explored the Ascension of Our Lord and paid attention to what he asked the disciples to do - “wait in the city for the power to come”. We understand that they didn’t know what Jesus was telling them but they trusted him and waited. Now we wait too trust for Pentecost.

GOING DEEPER IN CONVERSATION

Next week we start our new Geography Topic - we’ll be looking at the rainforest. What is the rainforest and where would you find it in the world? Unfortunately, the rainforest is being chopped down it is so important to our world. Watch this Laudato Si' video for our common home - a message from Pope Francis - click the picture to open the video.

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MAGIC MOMENTS OF LEARNING

The highlight of our week was our trip to the Theatre. We watched The Tempest with our lovely Year 4 partner class. The characters came to life and even though it was tricky to follow it was a visual feast and we really empathised with Ariel and Caliban. In class our drama lessons led to writing and we’ve written as Ariel once more - this time we were responding to feedback - this is something that we will keep doing so that we strive to achieve all our Year 2 goals. We’ve had fun with Mrs Mather in Art and Miss Bassett is really enjoying teaching time - this is the time to get a learning watch to wear in school- I’ve attached an image here. We’ve set up a germination experiment in science and we complete the week with -Theatre Reviews and gardening!

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LET’S CELEBRATE

This week our Star Virtue goes to Heidi - Heidi is such an active and curious learner - not only that but she shares her friendship openly and lovely every single day.

Our Learning award goes to Alfie. Thank you Alfie for being a super enthusiastic scientist (again). You have consistently demonstrated resilience with your writing and maths. Thank you for being a great role model.

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REMINDERS

FOREST SCHOOL FOR THE DAY - Thursday 22nd May. Please come to school on this day in old clothes.

Please bring rosary beads for the month of May

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Have a lovely Ban Holiday weekend - form the whole Year 2 team

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A-Team Football Tournament-Tuesday 6th May

This tournament will be held at LSA after school between 3:45-5:00.

Please pick your child up from the school office at 3:15pm for a 3:45 kick off.

The tournament will be played on astroturf so astro trainers will be needed.

Please bring your football kit, shin pads and your trainers in a spare bag to get changed at school, before being picked up.

The children selected to play are;

Y6

Archie, Rex, Dominic, Liam, Ben, Benjamin, Rafe, Arthur

Y5

Lorenzo, Logan

Year 4 homework to be completed by Thursday 8th May

Holy Communion

Please complete your book ‘Called to His Supper,’ up to p41. The pages have been bound incorrectly - please select the right pages!

Maths - Fractions

One maths sheets to complete, practising skills of adding fractions, subtracting fractions and beginning to change a mixed fraction into improper.

Going for Gold!

We did our first ‘try it out’ check this week for our official times tables test. We talked about APR - Absolute Personal responsibility to dedicate ourselves to this goal. Keep working hard on your TT rockstars - going green or building up speed.

Spellings

Your spelling sheets are in your homework books to complete - slightly different from now on - with one sheet in old format and one which is more of a puzzle!

Optional Home Learning - Summer 1

Please click on the link below to access this and further your learning:

Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 30th April

Spellings

This weeks focus is more homophones, spellings are:

1. medal

2. meddle

3. ball

4. bawl

5. peace

6. piece

7. sauce

8. source

9. who’s

10. whose

Reading
The children are already making their way up the target board. Please continue dialy reading at home.

Purple Mash - 2do task - matching related number facts HTU.

Summer 1 Optional homework

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Swimming Gala Trials

The Year 5 and 6 swimming gala has been scheduled for Friday 23rd May at Palatine Leisure Centre. We now need to hold trials for any of the children wanting to take part.

These will take place the Friday before, Friday 16th May during school time. The triallists will walk down to the pool and back again during the day. We will then let the children know who has been successful. Those selected will represent the school the following Friday from 8:30am - 12 midday. On this day, the team will be dropped off at the pool - parents can stay and support - they can then be brought back to school. Thosw wishing to trial will need to bring their swimming costume, swimming shorts, googles and towel into school on the 16th - they can also wear their PE kit.

Please complete this form if you wish your child to trial. More details about the gala will be available nearer the time for those selected.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 25.04.25- 'We must live in faith, not only by our words but with our actions'- Pope Francis (1936-2025)

What a beautiful first week back it has been in school. So much reflection has taken place with us as a school coming together to celebrate the life of Pope Francis. Both in worship and in lesson, we have reflected on his life as Pope and have looked at the roles and responsibilities that this brings. We have also been lucky enough to have the Our Lady of Lourdes statue with us during the holy pilgrimage. We have reflected on the story of Mary and Bernadette and have created some lovely prayers and art work to resemble this.

Our second week of forest school is now underway, with all three groups now experiencing the wonders of outdoor education.

This week, we have been learning…

• Maths- We have been using our mental maths to calculate the area of rectangles and also going beyond 12 x 12 by using written method.

• Science- We have continued with our forces topic by discussing our understanding of motion. We have looked at historical scientists who first developed theories around movement and we have been testing their hypotheses.

• Music- It is all things musical theatre this half term! We began by learning about the make up of MT such as its three components along with the roles within MT. We began to create a history timeline of how musical theatre has changed throughout time and listening to different types of MT.

• Reading- We have started our new class novel of ‘The Suitcase Kid’ by Jacqueline Wilson, where we look into the life of a 10 year old girl handling big changes within her family.

Conversation starters

• RE- We have been looking into the life of Pope Francis and discovering how Pope’s are granted a coat of arms, which is a badge/emblem to represent your name. Talk to your parents and grandparents and see if your family name has a coat of arms.

• English- We have began our discussions text topic and have been creating points of view for our school themed questions.

  Are class council sessions necessary?

  Should homework be doubled or banned completely?

  discuss these with your parents and see what they think.

Let’s Celebrate

Learning certificate for being focused and cooperative goes to Logan: Over these past couple of weeks, we have seen a change in your attitude and choices Logan. You are reflecting on the advice given to you and are really making sure that you are making the right choices. This has been seen all throughout our first week back as well!

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are active and curious. Our winner this week goes to Beth. You are always so active Beth, especially in small creative tasks that are set, you just go above and beyond.

Notices

• Homework- Please check the homework blog to keep on track of your child’s SPAG, multiplication and division practice and also their reading.

• Forest School- This will take place every Friday for this half term. You will be sent a text the previous night to make aware who is doing this on which day as the class are split into groups. The children will just need to bring in a change spare of clothes- ones suitable for outdoor activities and working within a forest environment. Long clothing will be needed (no shorts).

  The groups are;

  Group 1- Daisy, Grace, Isioma, Jacob, Lilly, Logan, Matilda, Seth, Teddy, Toby

  Group 2- Amelia, Beth, Finley, Hudson, Hugo, John-Paul, Joseph, Poppy, Sean

  Group 3- Charlotte, Ciaran, Gus, Josh, Lorenzo, Louis, Rory, Rose, Tommy, William

  Each group will have four sessions of forest school spread out across the rest of the year.

• Extra Curricular Activities- Please check the sports blog for new and existing sports clubs taking place this half term, including game and tournament dates.