Reading Buddies

We had the pleasure of working with our Year 1 Buddies again, but this time we were reading! Both the Year 5 children and Y1 children loved this time to share stories with each other! It was a pleasure to watch them talk about the books they were sharing and to see them taking turns to read. It was especially lovely watching Y5 help Y1 if they found a tricky word! 

Parliament Week 

All over the UK, schools celebrated Parliament Week from 18th - 22nd November. 

To help us learn what it is like to work for Parliament and what the life of a councillor is like, we had an assembly from Robbie Lea-Trengrouse who is a Senior Caseworker for our local MP Laurence Turner. 

Robbie told us all about how he helped Laurence campaign to become elected and what his daily duties are. He also told us about times when he has been able to visit Parliament and what that was like. 

Thank you, Robbie! We loved hearing you speak! 

VR Headsets in Geography

We have been able to climb to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Everest and take a closer look at the world's oldest lava lake Erta Ale in Africa as part of our Mountains topic in Geography. 

The children have really enjoyed taking a closer look at these amazing sights! 

DT – Stuffed Toys

Year 5 have been learning about how to design and produce their own ‘stuffed toy’. We used the opportunity to produce a Christmas tree decoration that they might send as a gift to someone.

The children had to develop their own templates, learn how to sew buttons and appendages on and then use a blanket stick to sew the front and back of their decoration together.

With the help of easy threaders and a lot of teamwork and patience, they did a fantastic job!

OUR HERITAGE DAY

As a school, we celebrated our heritage day and it was wonderful to see so many Year 5 honouring their family’s backgrounds. The children come from a wide range of backgrounds and proudly talked about their cultures, flags and traditions.

Emmanuel and Soela created presentations that they shared with the class which were incredible and their class mates listened well and asked thoughtful questions to learn more.

A Brew, a book and a bake!

To demonstrate our love for reading, as a school we took part in a reading event where we were invited to share books with our families whilst having a treat of a drink and a cake!

The children loved having time to read with their parents and siblings and it showed their parents just how easy it is to engage in reading while having valuable family time!

St Thomas Aquinas Sports Event

Year 5 were invited to attend an athletics event at STACS where there were 6 other schools. The children took part in  a range of events and throughout the whole event demonstrated their wonderful personalities, manners and sportsmanship. They made us very proud indeed!

Prayer Buddies

Year 5 and Year 1 met together for our 1st Prayer Buddy session of the year.

The children wrote prayers together and then shared them with the group.

Ciara-Lily and Jayden’s prayer

Nazila and Hennes’ prayer

Style in Art

We started Art this year by looking at different styles of Art. This included looking at Rococo, Modernist and Abstract art.

We compared artists and the techniques they used and then designed our own pieces of art inspired by the pieces we had explored.

Here we were comparing the how artists use rough and smooth styles. We used oil pastels to create the rough effect and chalks to create the smooth effect. 

We then looked at the intricate designs used in Rococo style furniture.

After we had studied and compared the styles, we got to painting our own creations.