Praying with a rosary

Today is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary and October is the month of the Holy Rosary; so today Year 5 tried praying with the rosary.

Looking at wars since World War 2

For international Peace Day, Year 5 have been looking at the location of wars since WW2. We quickly realised there were so many wars it would take too long to locate them all. 

Peace day - refugees

For Peace Day, Year 5 have been studying refugees. We built refugee tents to highlight the number of refugees fleeing war and persecution. Refugees are forced to leave their homes behind and travel to a new country, often to set up home at a refugee camp with tents.

Bible referencing

In RE, Year 5 have been working on Bible referencing.

Cafod Assembly

This morning, we had a special Cafod assembly. We found out about all the amazing things Cafod does to help people around the world. This year our charity fundraising will be for Cafod.

Start of the school year Mass

 

This morning, we had Mass with our new parish priest - Father Jerome.

Monopoly

This afternoon, Year 5 enjoyed a game of Monopoly. As well as being great fun, the game provided lots of opportunities to improve our maths such as money and calculation skills. We also learnt the meaning of the vocabulary in the game such as auction, rent and tax.

Leavers' Mass

Maths frog investigation

 

Year 5 have recently been undertaking lots of maths investigations. This one involves two families of frogs who wish to swap sides to the other side of the pond.

• There are 7 lily pads which the frogs must use to cross the pond.
• Frogs can only jump to empty lily pads.
• Frogs can only jump over one other frog at a time.
• Frogs don't know how to jump backwards!

Many of the children were able to find the answer to the investigation. However it became a lot harder to record how they achieved it and demonstrate their answer to someone else. 

Visit to the local mosque

Today the Reception Class, Year 6 & Year 3 visited the local mosque.

Water Walk

Well done to everyone who undertook the water walk for charity. The water walk was part of our Year of Jubilee and another event to mark the centenary of St Joseph's Church.

The children walked laps carrying a bottle of water. To mark the church's centenary and to set a challenge, the children were aiming for 100 laps (as a class or group) of the field or playground.

All the money raised goes to our school charity the Emmaus (Clifton Diocese Schools) project. This event also brings an end to our charity work for this project. Please if possible make a donation to this charity event by handing in a donation with your child or there is an option to make a donation by School Gateway. If you select 'payments' from the account and then from the payments list choose: 'St Joseph's Uganda Charity'. 

For more information on the charity see our school website https://www.st-josephs-pri.bristol.sch.uk/Clifton-Diocese-Schools-Project/    

Water walk

 

Pentecost Display