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This week’s prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Alistair and Jessie, thinking about faith — even just a little bit — and about doing the right thing, not because we want praise, but because it's what God asks us to do. In the Bible reading, Jesus tells us that even a tiny bit of faith can do big things, and that we should serve others humbly, without expecting a reward. The children listened carefully and thought about how they can live with faith and serve others with kind hearts.
Even small acts of faith and kindness matter to God. When we do what’s right without needing praise, we’re following Jesus’ example. Let’s try to live with mustard-seed faith and humble hearts.
“Increase our faith!”
Luke17:5
Year 5’s mission into the world of engineering!
On Thursday, Year 5 were really lucky to have taken part in a STEM challenge, Road to RIAT: Space mission, in association with the Royal Air Force and Smallpeice.
During the challenge, Year 5 became real-life engineers with the aim of designing, building, and testing rockets using simple materials and ideas. The children worked well as a team, using what they learned during the livestream that we watched, to explore how rockets are designed and launched. Once built, they had great fun testing their designs, seeing what works best, and making improvements along the way - just like real engineers do.
Take a look at how much fun they had…
Our award winners:
Golden Award (RESPECT) - Elsie
Writing Award - Celia
Maths Award - Sienna
Our learning this week…
In English we’ve been using parenthesis in sentences indicated by commas, brackets and dashes. We’ve been identifying the key features of our exploration narrative. We’ve also been focusing on spellings of words with silent letter t.
Our focus in maths has been mental addition and subtracting and then using more formal methods to add four digit numbers.
In RE we have been thinking about how rules, like the Ten Commandments, help to keep us happy and safe. The children have then reflected on what makes them truly happy and why.
In Spanish we have been learning the months of the year.
In art Year 5 have looked at and discussed the work of Hundertwasser. They then used a viewfinder to select and draw a section of one of his images into their sketchbooks.
In PE the children are working with PE specialist Max from Blackpool Football Club Community Trust. The focus of their lessons this half term is hockey.
The new BEBCMAT Rock Stars Super League competition started this week and runs till the 24th October Good luck everyone!
Our school is currently in 4th place out of 15 schools in the trust and we have scored 1033 points (school average score) so far.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
1st. Fionn Year 4 12080
2nd Matilda Year 4 8363
3rd Luke Year 4 7572
4th Freddie Year 4 7409
5th Matilda Year 5 4500
Well done to everyone on our leaderboard this week!
At Our Lady's we like to support our parents/carers in Online Safety matters.
Keeping children and young people safe online is one of the biggest challenges facing society today and it is all of our responsibility to ensure that children are educated to make positive, informed choices when they are online.
This month’s online safety guide gives helpful advice about…
What Parents & Educators Need to Know about FC26. This online safety guide explores EA FC 26 – the latest edition of the immensely popular football game. It flags potential risks, including in-game purchases, scams, and exposure to strangers via voice chat.
We hope you find these guides informative and helpful in promoting the positive use of technology to make the online world a better and safer place for us all. Thank you.
To read this week’s Good News Gospel reading, please follow the link to share the Gospel at home with your family. These are really child-friendly resources to share at home. Good News Gospel
Please also have a look at this Parent Newsletter linked with our weekly whole school and class worship…
(Please note that dates could be subject to change - I will post any changes as they happen.)
Friday 10th October Autumn Disco Key Stage 2 will be at 6-7pm (KS1 disco 4.30-5.30pm) Payment can be made on parent pay for tickets (£2.50 inc a drink and snack)
Monday 20th October Edina Trust planting day for Year 5. More information to follow soon.
Thursday 23rd - Friday 24th October Bikeability sessions for those children in Year 5 who are taking part. I will give more information nearer the time.
Friday 24th October TTRS day! (Times Tables Rock Stars day). Come to school dressed as a Rock star or a number.
Friday 24th October Close for half term
Tuesday 4th November Back to school
Thursday 6th November All Saints Day Whole school mass. 9.30am
Thursday 13th November Year 5 & 6 Liturgy for parents in the school hall 9am
Friday 7th November Dress as a firework (colourful) Bring donations of bottles/chocolates for prizes at the bingo event (any leftovers to be made into hampers for the Christmas Fair)
Friday 14th November Family bingo night
Friday 5th December KS2 Christmas movie night
Friday 12th December Christmas Fair (after school)
Friday 12th December Break the rules day/mufti day. Children can come dressed in clothes of their choice - perhaps festive wear for the school fair.
Friday 19th December Close for Christmas
Well done Year 5, hope you all have a great weekend!
Mrs McVey and Mrs Hodgkiss
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