Welcome to Year 5

Key information
Meet The Teacher
Timetable
Curriculum Letters
Spellings
Knowledge organisers
Prayer of the term!

Summer 1
Happy Easter everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your break! In year 5, we all charged our batteries during these two weeks and we are back ready to carry on working hard with our learning and having a lot of fun as well!
Week 5
We have had a very busy week! In maths, we worked very hard with our decimal numbers: addingd and subtracting as well as multiplying and dividing . In Literacy we finished looking at the features of persuasive speeches and started writing one. In RE we looked at the importance of the Holy Trinity and drew beautiful triptychs showing God represented in the Holy Trinity. Lastly, we had a blast playing diamond cricket.
RE Representing God in a triptuch
PE-Diamond Cricket
Week 4
This week saw us; finishing our writing, great stories full of parenthesis, relative clauses, awesome vocabulary and of course lots of imagery and original ideas; having brilliant time during drama, we used our bodies, voices, facial expressions etc to convey characters; practising for sports day, this week we practised throwing the javelin (we were amazing) ; and learning about the change the Holy spirit brought to the disciples in the story of Pentecost.
Drama
DT -we finished our automata!
PE Athletics -throwing the javelin
We started our lesson by playing "it" to warm up before throwing the javelin!
Class liturgy
Week 3
We have had a very busy and exciting week! We finished our innovation stage, which went brilliantly as we worked very hard, and started our invention. We had our first drama lesson, which we enjoyed very much! We had a great Art lesson delivered by Miss Birch, our lovely student teacher. We had a video-call from Josh, from Austalia, and we celebrated our new King's coronation by dancing -conga around the whole school- making crowns and other decorations!
Coronation Day!
Video-call from Josh!
Class Liturgical prayer!
Drama

Week 2
Whole school Mass
On Friday, we went to church;we enjoyed a lovely homily from Fr Joe. He explained the importance of the Paschal candle and he also told us about Peter and Paul's life. We also had the chance to actively participate by answering questions ans serving at the Altar.
Week 1
Litter-picking!
Part of One World council's action is to ensure we look after our envinment by organising litter-picking and other activities to raise awareness. This week it was our turn to roll-up our sleeves, put our gloves and go around the playgroung and field picking up any litter.
PE Athletics- We started with jumping!
Class liturgical prayer
Summer 1
Week 6
Farewell Josh! Have fun in Australia, we will miss you!
We filled our jar!
So, we had a party, we danced, we played dodgeball and of course we had snacks and cake!
PE Easter egg hunt
Miss Gould organised for us a fun Easter egg-hunt. In order to eat the eggs at the end though, we had to burn the calories first!
Class liturgical prayer
Music learning how to play the 12-bar blues!
RE understanding why some people wanted to kill Jesus
Making the sign of the peace and receiving the Holy communion in Mass
Week 5
In PE we created our own dance inspired by space poems!
Uks2 Mass
We all sat and listened beautifully to Fr Joe's homily and helped at the Altar.
Week 4
Class liturgical prayer
RE- Exploring how modern temptations can damage our relationships
Week 3
RE Learning to live like Christ this Lent
Maths Decimal numbers
Friday treat...Hot chocolate and cookies! Yum!
PE Dancing like Vikings!
Week 2
Brooklands Museum!
We had such a great time! We learnt a lot of interesting information about cars, airplanes and buses. Also we had the chance to make our own fast cars and have a race!
World Book Day!
PE inspired by William Shakespear's Midninght Summer's dream!
Writing a book review of a favourite book!
Week 1
Class liturgical prayer
Year 3/4/ and 5 girl's Football Tournament! Well done, you were all great!
RE-Parables- Acting out the Good Samaritan
Ash Wednesday!
On Wednesday, we went to church as a whole school to celebrate Ash Wednesday.
Ash Wednesday is a solemn reminder of human mortality and marks the beginning of the Season of Lent, which is a season of penance, reflection, and fasting which prepares us for Christ's Resurrection on Easter Sunday, through which we attain redemption.
Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return!
Bikeability!
Shrove Tuesday!
Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday so in year 5, following the tradition, we had pancakes!
Spring 2
Spring 1
Week 6
Reading Rockets! Boys VS Girls!
Week 5
RE - Baptism Quiz Day!
After we recaped and sequenced the Sacrament of Baptism, we then researched what each symbol, action and sign represent and last we created our own quizes about Baptism!
Our Not so Fast Balloon Cars!
We had great fun making our balloon cars today, unfortunatelly they weren't very fast!
Class Liturgical Prayer about deforestation
Oratory football tournament! Great fun and great results! Well done boys!
Week 4
Testing different cars for our Fast Car Project!
Class Liturgical prayer! Why shouldn't we listen to influencers?

Week 3
Fencing
Week 2
French: Quel est ton opinion des sports?
Gymnastics
Week 1
French Day!
Happy New Year everyone! The new year at St Anne's commenced with a fabulous whole school french day! The children had the chance to participate in a range of educational, fun activities to enhance their cultural learning. They studied different French painters and recreated their paintings, they read comic books (Asterix and Lucky Luke) written by a French author, Rene Gosciny, and compared them, they researched different influential French people and created their own posters about them, they played fun French games and they cooked and tasted French crepes! It was such a fun day and great start of the new year!
Art...
History Research...
Games...
Autumn 2
Week 7
Year 5 Carol Service!
Very well done to all children for such a lovely carol service! They were all amazing! They read, sang, played music and acted out beautifully in front of the whole school and parents! Merry Christmas everyone!
A message from Father Christmas... just for us!
Final dress rehearsal before our carol service!
Week 6
Practising for our carol service next week!
Leading the Mass...
This week, it was our turn to lead the Mass. We did brilliantly! We read the bidding prayers and the readings, we helped at the Alter, we gave out the offeratory and we sang beautifully!
Christmas Dinner!
Fun Christmas PE Games
In PE, we had great fun 'decorating our Christmas trees'!
Our Elf is angry...
Roberto, our Elf, seems to be very upset as some of us don't believe. As a result, he decided to hide some of our belongings creating a lot of mess! After that, the year 5 children decided to write apology letters to Roberto! Let's hope he will return!
Week 5
End of Term Tug Rugby Tournament
Year 5 class was visited by a naughty Elf...
The children were very excited on Thursday morning because they found a letter from an Elf and chocolate coins in their trays! Unfortunately, due to their excitement, they lost their first mission when they told us (Mr G. and Mrs L.) straight away! Hopefully, he'll be back tomorrow with another mission! Teachers watch out for any mischief there's an Elf around determined to get the year 5 children in trouble!
Advent kindness calendar full of promises and sweet treats too!
On Thursday, we opened the first day of our Advent kindness calendar, inside we found lollies and a note that said 'Be kind!' to remind us that Advent is a time when we prepare for the second coming of Jesus.
One world Council
During Gospel Assembly, Mrs McVeigh gave out to all One World Council members a certificate and a Cross pin. Well done Tallianna and Cheyenne, we have faith in you and know you will be amazing!

Class liturgical prayer marking the first week of Advent!

Week 4
RE -We learnt about Pilgrimages
Class Liturgical Prayer

PE -Tag Rugby
Break the rule day!
Not only we came to school wearing our home clothes, with our nails painted and hair dyed but we also decided (because we have been doing amazingly with our learning) to skip Math and watch Wale vs Iran game instead! We love breaking the rules!
Week 3
Children In Need
We wore spotty clothes, donated money for children in need and above all had a fun day playing board games, writing acrostic poems and solving clues to escape the classroom!
Practising for the carol service, enjoy this sneak peek...
Year 5 one world council representatives, Tallianna and Cheyenne, are ready to inspire their friends and lead by example!!

Class liturgical prayer beautifully led by Ben, Weronika and Saad!

Week 2
For Rememberance Day we held one minute silence...

.... also, prepared, read aloud and performed a poem! Lest we forget!
PE- Tag rugby
Class liturgical prayer
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Week 1
Music- Singing a capella a South African song! We tried our best!
RE - Acting out the sacrament of the sick!
Maths-Learning about Cube numbers
We went to church to celebrate all saints day! We were very well-behaved!
Autumn Term 1
Week 7
We filled our marble jar...again!
Our treat this time was a whole afternoon on the chrome books! We loved it!
Literacy
We finished our news paper reports and they are amazing, full of relatives clause, parenthesis, modal verbs and passive voice!
Week 6
RE Acting out The miracle of Jesus feeding the 5,000!
Designing our Christmas cards whilst singing Christmas songs! Jingle Bells...
Watching a cyber safety play...to remind us or teach how to stay safe online!
Week 5
PE Hockey match
Literacy Starting our innovation



Week 4
Literacy, learning how to use modal verbs and relatives clauses in our writing!
Class liturgy with lovely year 6s!

RE Our drawing to Praise God for creating such a lovely world for us!
PE Hockey, learning how to pass the ball!
Week 3
Music! Singing about the Nile! We sound great don't you agree?
Guided Reading!


Provision
Enjoying provision, after working hard with our Math! We love it and we strive for it every day, in every lesson!
Week 2
Class Assembly for our Beloved late Queen!


French -Singing/Learning Question words!

Literacy - Perfoming Poetry
For the past two weeks, in year 5, we have been looking at different poets. Exploring different styles, looking at the language and expressive devices they use, expressing our opinion and finally using all this knowledge to write our own poems and ofcourse performing them! We did great!




PE Hockey-Rather tricky but Fun!





Week 1
We are back!
We are all so excited to be back in school!
We spent the first couple days catching up with things we've been up to during the holidays, getting used to the new routines and of course learning!
PE -Blip Tests



Using the library to get our love of reading book and reading quietly!


