Measuring Shadows
In Science this week, we have been looking at shadows. Every hour of the day we went out and measured the same shadow and observed how it changed throughout the day!
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Pancake Day
Since it was shrove Tuesday this week, we enjoyed a Friday afternoon treat…pancakes!
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5S World Book Day
We had such a fun day celebrating World Book Day!
coming to school in our PJs, walking to the library, playing a quiz, and creating crafts all based on the fairy tale, Cinderella!
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Alston Observatory
This week year 5 visited Alston Observatory. Our visit started with a talk about the key features of the planets in our solar system. We then studied some star constellations in the planetarium. Finally we saw one of the giant telescopes which is used to observe the night sky.
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Door of Hope
5S have enjoyed designing their class door for the start of the CAFOD Year of Hope. We decided that Hope can lift you up and took some inspiration from the much loved Disney film, Up!
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Hockey in the Winter Sun
One of new topics in PE this term is hockey. 5 Sacrament had fun practicing techniques in the lovely sun on Thursday afternoon!
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Raising money for CAFOD world gifts
In the run up to Christmas Year 5 and 6 had the challenge of raising money for CAFOD world gifts.
5 Sacrament set a goal of trying to raise £100 to buy chickens, fishing equipment, bees, a forest school and teaching children to read for people in poor countries who aren’t as lucky as us.
We…
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Crumbles and Sparkles!
We were very enthusiastic when exploring the Crumble software to make the sparkle flash and change colour. Excellent programming Year 5!
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Feast of the Epiphany
We had a great start to our new year by attending Mass for the feast of the Epiphany. We also visited church to look at the Nativity scene. We thought about the gifts which the wise men gave to Jesus and reflected on what gifts we could give eg the gift of kindness, sharing, respect, forgiveness.
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Museum of Lancashire
To support our work in English, Year 5 visited the Museum of Lancashire. We took part in 4 activities which taught us more about ‘top secret’ work during World War 2. We would love to share the secrets with you but sadly we can’t as they are TOP SECRET!!
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War Poetry
Year 5 have been reading and analysing the war poem ‘Dulce et Decorum est’. We were very impressed with the art work and poems which the pupils created after studying the poem.
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Blessing of the Graves
Yesterday, Year Five went to the graves to bless them with the Bishop. We said prayers and listened to the service. We remembered all the people that died for us during the wars. We even showed some of our families graves and the bishop blessed them with us using the holy water. All of Year Five…
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