Year 5 - Spring 1 - Week 6
Date: 13th Feb 2025 @ 11:58am
What a fantastic week to end this half term! It has flown by in record time and there is much to be grateful for and to reflect upon.
Here are just some of our highlights:
- Writing: We completed our own myths based on Norse mythology, using our focus text, Arthur and the Golden Rope, as our inspiration;
- Reading: We have continued to read our class novel, Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford, throughout this half term. Our reading comprehension lessons have focused on the lyrics from different songs across various genres, including Miley Cyrus, Avril Lavigne, Snow Patrol, Disney and more;
- Maths: Long multiplication and fractions have been our focus, alongside our weekly times tables focused lessons on TT Rockstars;
- RE: The children have been exploring the qualities of a good teacher before relating this to Jesus through his teachings in parables and leading by example;
- Collective Worship: We said goodbye and good luck to Reverend Mark who is moving onto a new job role with Liverpool Cathedral after an amazing 13 years as part of the HolyTrinity/Trinity St. Peter's family. We wish him well.
- PE: Ellen from the LFC Foundation has been delivering tennis sessions to the children and we have completed our swimming sessions at Formby Pool too. We were especially proud of the children for successfully completing their ‘Survival Swimming’ award too;
- Music: Finlay Gordon from Liverpool Cathedral Choir has continued to lead our vocal coaching sessions and we have now completed our final Clarinet lessons with Mrs McCardle;
- Geography: We explored Scandinavia and the various physical and human geographical features of this fascinating and beautiful area of Europe;
- Art: We explored self-portraits by a range of artists, before the children used photographs of themselves for developing their own unique self-portraits using different media;
So that’s that! Another half term passes by and a well-earned rest for this hardworking class of children awaits. Make the most of it everyone and I look forward to seeing you all in a week’s time. Enjoy!
Reminders for next half term:
- There is no set homework or spellings for the half term break. However, the Year 5 Virtual Classroom has been updated and attached to this blog. It includes links to websites and resources. Pupils can find their individual passwords on Google Classroom. Don’t forget the Practice section on Mirodo, where children can choose topics to practise in Maths, Reading, SPaG, or Science.
- PE days for the next half term will be: Thursday and Friday.