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Good morning, Here are today's tasks: Friday 4th December I hope to see you next week. Take care, Mr Smith

Good morning, Here is today's work: Thursday 3rd December Take care, Mr Smith

Good morning, I hope you are feeling better. Here is the link to today's work: Tuesday 1st December Take care, Mr Smith

Good morning, Here are today's tasks: Wednesday 11th November Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow. Mr Smith

Good morning, Here are today's tasks: Tuesday 10th November Enjoy your day! Mr Smith

Good morning, I hope you have had a good weekend. Here are today's task: Monday 9th November Take care, Mr Smith

Good morning, Here are today's tasks: Friday 6th November Take care and have a good weekend. Mr Smith

Good morning, Here are today's tasks: Thursday 5th November Have a great day! Mr Smith

Good morning, Here are today's tasks: Wednesday 4th November 2020 I hope you have a good day. See you soon, Mr Smith

Good morning, Here are today's tasks: Wednesday 16th September Take care, Mr Smith

Good morning, Here are today's tasks: T uesday 15th September Have a good day. Mr Smith

Good morning, I hope you had good weekend. Here are today's tasks: Monday 14th September Take care, Mr Smith

Good morning, Here are today's tasks: Friday 11th September This week's spellings: Spellings    These spellings will be tested next Friday. I hope you have a great weekend. Mr Smith

Good morning, Here are today's tasks: Thursday 10th September 2020 Take care. Mr Smith

Good morning, Here are today's tasks: Wednesday 9th September 2020 Take care and have a great day! Mr Smith

Good morning, I hope you are well. Here are the suggested tasks for Tuesday: Tuesday 8th September Have a great day! Mr Smith

Hello Class 5, I hope you are well and have had a great weekend. Here are the suggested tasks for Monday:  Monday 7th September 2020 I hope you all have a lovely day and I look forward to seeing you next week. Mr Smith

Hello Class 5, It was great to see so many of you at school today, I hope you had fun catching up with your friends and finding out about Year 6. Mr Hayden has asked me to pass on that he really enjoyed talking to you and is looking forward to seeing all you all in September.   If you didn't come in today, we will keep your books at school and you can take them home in September.  Once again, well done on your hard work this year - you've all done really well! 🌟 I hope you all have a wonderful summer holiday. 🌞🍦🏖 Best wishes, Mrs Piper 

Hello Class 5, Here is a link to some  Summer Activities  that you might like to do to keep you going over the summer.  Enjoy the holidays, Mrs Piper 

Hello Class 5, Welcome to your last day of being in Year 5! 😃 What a different summer term it's been for all of us! I'd like to say a huge well done 🌟👏 for all your hard work with the Home Learning activities; please say a massive thank you to anyone that has helped you with them over the last few months. Thanks for sending in all the photos and messages for me to share on the blog - I've really enjoyed seeing what you've been doing. I'm really looking forward to seeing lots of you at school tomorrow!! If you're one of the ones coming in, please can you bring a plastic bag with you so that you can take home your school books. If you're not able to come tomorrow, please don't worry - I'm going to put up a final blog post afterwards so you can find out any messages that were given to your class. Here are some activities that you might like to have a go at on Friday or over the summer holidays: Friday 17th July See you soon,  Mrs Piper   

Hello Class 5, I hope you've all had a good day.  I don't know about you, but I'm finding that this week is going very quickly, which is great news as it means it's not long until Friday when I'll get to see lots of you at school. 🏫 😀 I know Mr Hayden is looking forward to spending some time with you too.  Here are some suggested activities that you might like to have a go at on Thursday: Thursday 16th July Have a great day, Mrs Piper  PS: Please keep your eyes 👀 open for a ' Summer Activities' blog post that I'll be putting on soon; this will be a list of activities that you might like to do to keep you going over the summer holidays. 🌞🍧

Hello Class 5,  I hope you are all well and are having a good week so far. Here are the suggested tasks for Wednesday: Wednesday 15th July Hope you all have a great day, Mrs Piper 

Hello Class 5, I hope you have all had a good Monday! Here are the suggested tasks for Tuesday: Tuesday 14th July I also have this message for you from Mrs Riegler: Exciting News! How would you like to see your work in a  real life exhibition ?  Well now is your chance.  Gloucester Museum  are running a competition ( with prizes ) on the theme of  Life In Lockdown .  You can draw, paint, make a collage or create a video to show how you will remember your time in lockdown in the future.  You can think about the good things and the not so good things you have experienced, new skills you have learnt, ways you have adapted.  It would be absolutely fantastic to have work from Holy Apostles' in the exhibition.  Here is the link to the letter  that has been sent out today with further details of  how to enter .  Don't forget to send us a copy of your entries too.  Even if you aren't selected, we can have our own lockdown memories exhibition in school.  Go on, get creative!  Good L

Hello Class 5, I hope you are all well and have had a great weekend. Welcome to the last week of the summer term! I hope you are all looking forward to the summer holidays - not long to go now! 🌞😎⛱ As this is the week of term, the suggested tasks will be a bit different to normal. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday there will be an English, a maths and a wider curriculum task; then on Thursday and Friday, there will be some fun activities like the ones we would normally do at school during the last couple of days of the year.  Here are the suggested tasks for Monday:  Monday 13th July I also have another assembly to share with you - this one is called  Loving our Neighbour  - you might like to watch it before you start your activities.  I hope you all have a lovely day, Mrs Piper  PS: If you're taking part in our 'Virtual Sports Day' please remember to email your scores to the office.🏃🏅

Dear Parents, Normally at the end of the year, we would spend a day all together out on the field, taking part in our School Sports Day. We may not be able to do that this year, but it doesn't mean we can't have some sports day fun. Instead, this year we will be having a Virtual Sports Day. There are 5 challenges for you to complete to win house points for your house. For all the details, please click here . The competition starts now! You have until Wednesday 16th July to get your scores in. Please email them to the schools Admin email account, with the Subject ' Virtual Sports Day' and your name child's name and year. Winners will be announced on Friday 18th July, along with the winning house! Good luck! Mrs Prescott

Hello Class 5, Here is a message from Mrs Bedwell: It is really important to make sure you keep reading over the summer holidays! Here are details of the 2020 Summer Reading Challenge: https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/ Sign up to the Summer Reading Challenge on the website and keep reading!

Hello Class 5, We've nearly made it to Friday! Well done for completing another week of Home Learning, only one more to go now. Here are the suggested tasks for Friday: Friday 10th July If you can, please ask someone to test you on your spellings too. Before you begin your tasks, you might like to watch a story from the Open the Book Team. Today we have a different way to find it. To make it easier for everyone to access all Open the Book videos, this week and for the future, a playlist has been created containing all the videos so far. Each week during term time, there will be a new video added. The corresponding dates are listed next to each of the videos - just click on the link below and select the video you would like to watch: Open the Book - YouTube Channel Playlist Link Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Mrs Piper PS: Please keep your eyes open for two more blog posts that will be appearing soon - one about the Summer Reading Challenge and the other

Hello Class 5, I hope you are all having a good week. Here are the suggested tasks for Thursday: Thursday 9th July Try to complete a spelling activity too. I also have some photos to share with you ... 📷 These are of some of the experiments that Rowan did during Science Week: This looks great! 🌈 Unlucky - your design looked really good! 🥚  None of the eggs in school survived either.😢  Thanks for sharing these Rowan, hope you enjoyed Science Week.  Hope you all have a great day, Mrs Piper 

Hello Class 5, I hope you're all well and you've been enjoying the history activities so far this week. Today we are going to be thinking about holidays. 🕶 🏖 Here are the suggested tasks for Wednesday: Wednesday 8th July I also wanted to let you know that Miss Johnson has recently updated the Wellbeing Blog with some new activities related to hope - do head on over and take a look if you'd like to try some of them out. Hope you all have a great day, Mrs Piper

Hello Class 5, I hope you are all well and had a good Monday. Here are the suggested tasks for Tuesday: Tuesday 7th July Have a lovely day, Mrs Piper

Hello Class 5, I hope you've all had a great weekend. This week we are going to be focusing on history for our wider curriculum tasks, and thinking about the changes to leisure and entertainment over the 20th century. 📽📱🎼 Before you start your activities today, you might like to watch this assembly  about 'Hope' which is one of our school values. After you have finished watching it, you could have a go creating your own hope balloon.  Here are the suggested tasks for Monday: Monday 6th July Here are the spellings: Spellings - 6th July Enjoy your day, Mrs Piper

Hello Class 5, Well done for completing another week of Home Learning. Here are the suggested tasks for Friday: Friday 3rd July If you can, ask someone to test you on your spellings too. I also have another recording for you from the Open the Book Team. This week it's the story of  A Dreadful Day . I hope you all have a great weekend, Mrs Piper

Hello Class 5, I hope you're all having a good week. Here are the suggested tasks for Thursday: Thursday 2nd July Try to compete a spelling activity too. Have a great day, Mrs Piper

Hello Class 5, I hope you are all well and have been enjoying learning about mountains this week. 🌄🗻 Here are the suggested tasks for Wednesday: Wednesday 1st July Have a good day, Mrs Piper

Hello Class 5, I hope you are all well and have had a good day. Here are the suggested tasks for Tuesday: Tuesday 30th June Try to complete a spelling activity too. Enjoy your day, Mrs Piper

Hello Class 5, I hope you've all had a great weekend. This week the suggested tasks will be in the same format as last week, with a daily English, maths and a wider curriculum task, as well as a list of spellings to practise throughout the week. In terms of the maths tasks, we've decided as a school that all of the year groups will spend the next few weeks focusing on practising key skills. This is to prepare you for moving up to the next year group. I know that some of you will find the worksheets fairly straight forward and they will not take you very long, therefore I have included some extra, more challenging activities for you to have a go at - these are indicated on the daily task sheets.  For the wider curriculum tasks this week, we're going to be focusing on geography and learning all about mountains. 🗻🌄🚵 Here are the suggested tasks: Monday 29th June Here are the spellings: Spellings - 29th June Have a lovely day, Mrs Piper 

Hello Class 5, I hope you've all had a lovely week. Here are the suggested tasks for Friday: Friday 26th June If you can, please ask someone to test you on your spellings too. I also have another recording from the Open the Book Team for you to listen to - this week the story is called An Important Meal . I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, Mrs Piper

Hello Class 5, I hope you have all had a good day and have managed to find a way of keeping cool. ⛱🕶🌊 Here are the suggested tasks for Thursday: Thursday 25th June Hope you enjoy the activities, Mrs Piper

Hello Class 5, I hope you are all well and have been enjoying the sunshine! 🌞 Here are the suggested tasks for Wednesday: Wednesday 24th June Have a lovely day, Mrs Piper

Hello Class 5, I hope you are all well and have been enjoying learning about the ancient Olympic Games. Here are your tasks for Tuesday: Tuesday 23rd June If you have time, try to complete a spelling activity too. Enjoy your day, Mrs Piper

Hello Class 5, Just a quick news update ... Here we have Elliot carrying out some of the science activities that were set last week. Looks like you really enjoyed these investigations - well done! ⭐🥚💧 Elliot also sent in a brilliant video of his egg drop challenge that I really enjoyed watching - thanks for sending it in.  Next up we have Ellie and Lola who have been out enjoying the wet weather. They went for a 'socially distanced' walk in the rain and found some huge puddles! Looks like a lot of fun girls, hope you didn't get too wet! ☔💧 I have also received an excellent zoo design from Annie. I was very impressed by your design Annie - I love the way that you have presented it and have thought about all the different elements. The bat cave walk and the pig races sound fantastic, I wish we could all go there on a day out!! 🦁🐧🐸 Take care, Mrs Piper

Hello Class 5, I hope you're all having a good weekend! This week we are going to be returning to a daily English, maths and wider curriculum task, along with a list of spellings to practise throughout the week. The wider curriculum tasks for this week will be based around the Olympic Games. 🏅🏃🏊 Here are the suggested tasks: Monday 22nd June Here are the spellings: Spellings - 22nd June If you would like any ideas for wellbeing tasks please have a look on the wellbeing blog. Hope you all have a lovely day, Mrs Piper PS: Please keep your eyes open 👀 for the next 'Class 5's News' post that I'm going to add to the blog on Monday afternoon. Thanks very much to all of you that have been sending in photos and messages for it - if anyone else has something they'd like to share then please email them to school and I can add them on.

Hello Class 5, We are nearly at the end of Science Week - I hope you've enjoyed the activities. Well done on all your hard work this week. On Friday we are going to be focusing on gravity. I hope you have fun with these suggested tasks: 🥚🎈 Friday 18th June I also have another story for you from the Open the Book Team; this one is called  The Great Parade . Wishing you all a wonderful weekend, Mrs Piper

Hello Class 5, I hope you are all well and have been enjoying learning about Sir David Attenborough. Did you know that you can watch him teaching some geography lessons on BBC Bitesize this week? Here are the links if you'd like to take a look: Continents Latitude and Climate Maps Here are the suggested tasks for Thursday - the first two are about animals 🐅🦋🐘  and follow on from yesterday and the third one involves you choosing your own science topic to research. Thursday 18th June I also have these photos of Leni to share with you - she has been out fossil hunting this week, just like Sir David Attenborough! What a great idea for an activity - thanks for sending these in. Looks like you were successful - well done Leni! ⭐ Hope you all have a great day, Mrs Piper

Hello Class 5, I hope you are all well and are enjoying Science Week so far. On Wednesday we are going to be focusing on animals and their habitats. 🦁🐒🦒🐳 Here are the suggested tasks for Wednesday: Wednesday 17th June Have a great day, Mrs Piper

Hello Class 5, I hope you are all well and have been enjoyed the first day of Science Week. 🌏🌠🌘 On Tuesday we are going to be focusing on the weather; some of the tasks are investigations that require items such as shaving foam and food colouring - please don't feel you have to complete these if you don't have all of the resources. Here are the suggested activities: Tuesday 16th June I hope you all have a great day! Mrs Piper

Hello Class 5, I hope you all well and enjoyed Arts Week. 🎨🎨🖌🖌 Thanks very much for all the lovely photos that you sent in; I have really enjoyed seeing all your wonderful artwork. I have also been very impressed by the artwork the children in school have created. Well done everyone! ⭐ This week is going to be Science Week! 🧪🌠⛅🐅 Each day we are going to focus on a different topic and throughout the week we are going to learn about some famous scientists and inventors. On the daily task sheets you will find three suggested activities. Some of these are investigations, if you would like to do try any of these please check with an adult before starting. On Monday we are going to be focusing on Earth and Space, here are the suggested activities: Monday 15th June I also wanted to share this photo of Elliot with you - here he is with his creations from last week. What fantastic artwork Elliot! It looks like you've worked very hard on these - well done!⭐ Hope you a

Hello Class 5, It's nearly Friday! Well done on completing another week of Home Learning. Here are your tasks for Friday: Friday 12th June I also have another recording from the Open the Book Team for you to listen to. This one is called  'Jesus and the Taxman' . Hope you all have a great weekend, Mrs Piper

Hello Class 5, I hope you are all well and having a good week. 🎨🎨🖌🖌 Here are your tasks for Thursday: Thursday 11th June Enjoy your day, Mrs Piper

Good Afternoon Class 5, I just wanted to share these wonderful photos with you. 📷🎨🎨🖌🖌 First up, we have Harry and Benjamin with their artwork in the style of the artist Paul Klee:  What a brilliant creation Harry - I really like your choice of colours. ⭐ Excellent work Ben! ⭐ If you look carefully can you spot the parrot? 🦜(Clue / it’s in red !) I think I can. 👀 Well done to both of you - I hope you enjoyed taking your lines for a walk. ✎ Next up, we have Poppy with her amazing poster. Poppy decided to combine a couple of the tasks and make a poster presentation in the style of Paul Klee by using components and ideas from his various works of art. What a great idea - I love how you've laid it out. I'm very impressed by the house in the style of 'Castle and Sun.'⭐  Here we have piece of surrealist artwork that Louie created yesterday. This is brilliant - I love the way you have put the pictures together and have added labels