Mrs Simmons

What a first few weeks! It has been so busy in our class. The children have started their new text ‘The Lion Above the Door’ and we have already had some excellent discussions about the issues it highlights. We have started our Games lessons with Rees Sports and had our new class photo. Mrs Simmons has only slipped up 4 or 5 times and called them Year 5! The children are working really hard and we are excited to see all that they achieve this year.

Today, 4 Blue started their French lessons with Madame Harris. They learnt how we can work out the meanings of words by using ‘cognates’ – words which look and sound similar to one another. For example: family (English), famille (French), familie (German) etc. They had a great time working out the meanings of words in a range of languages.

On Friday, 4 Blue had their first music lesson of the year with Minshall Music. During this lesson, they started their journey towards being able to play the Ukulele. They were brilliant in this first session.

We’ve had a wonderful year in Y5B. The children have worked so hard and had a lot of laughs along the way. A massive thank you to you all from the staff for your gifts, cards and kind words, not only today but throughout the year. It means a lot. Have a wonderful summer…I wonder how long it will take me to remember to call them Year 6 in September!

Here are a few memories from the year and ending with this crazy, busy week!

What a treat we all (adults too) had today when the ice cream van arrived just in time for break! Thank you Mrs Scott and Mrs Buckley for organising this for us. 🍦❤️

We have had an amazing day at Chester Zoo. Memories have been made, animals on wish lists have been seen and we did not stop from start to finish. The penguins, flamingos and monkeys were firm favourites. I think the final photos show how exhausted we all were but it was the best kind of tired. A few children asked if we could go back next year – even after 13,000 steps! There are so many photographs it will take a while to add them all but here are the first ones…

We have had the best day in Year 5 Blue today. We unpacked so many amazing books and we are so excited to get started on reading them! Getting comfy with our blankets, cushions and pj’s was a wonderful and very well deserved way to end assessment week. A huge thank you to the National Literacy Trust for this incredible scheme.