On Monday, we celebrated Harvest in assembly. Each class performed a song or a poem in celebration. Year 5 performed a Harvest poem together - well done Year 5!
Y5 Harvest
Thank you for all your wonderful harvest donations, which have been given to Streetlife, a worthy charity that supports homeless people in Blackpool.
This week’s prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Alistair and Jessie, on the theme of saying thank you. In the Bible reading, Jesus heals ten men, but only one of them comes back to say thank you. Sometimes we forget to be grateful for the good things in our lives, just like the others did. But Jesus reminds us how important it is to notice the blessings we have and to say thank you to God. They then challenged the children to think about all the things we are thankful for today.
Just like the one man who came back to thank Jesus, we can remember to say thank you too. When we are thankful, we become more joyful and more aware of God’s goodness in our lives.
“Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”
Luke 17: 19
Our award winners:
Golden Award (CARE) - Jessie
Writing Award - Eddie
Maths Award - George
Our learning this week…
In English the children have been planning their own exploration narrative.
Our focus in maths has been subtracting whole numbers with more than four-digits numbers and using rounding to check answers.
In RE the children have made links between the Ten Commandments and Jesus’ summary of the law in Matthew’s Gospel.
In Science we have been learning about the movement of the Earth relative to the sun.
In geography, the children learned to describe the key features of the physical geography of the Americas, including a range of landscapes and biomes.
In Spanish we have been learning the months of the year.
In art Year 5 have continued their work on Hundertwasser.
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.
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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 1137 points (school average score) so far.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
1st. Fionn Year 4 12397
2nd Matilda Year 4 9654
3rd Freddie Year 4 8560
4th Luke Year 4 7992
5th Stephen Year 6 4626
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 Memes. Memes may seem like harmless fun, but they can carry hidden risks. This guide explores how meme culture affects young people - from misinformation to inappropriate content and digital footprints.
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.)
Monday 20th October Edina Trust planting day for Year 5.
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. Please note: those taking part in Bikeability will need their school PE kit on the Friday, instead of dressing up for TTRS day, as level 2 Bikeability will involve going out on the roads in the local area.
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Friday 24th October - TTRS Day
We’re joining schools across the Trust to celebrate Times Tables Rock Stars Day as part of our maths and number work.
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Years 2–6 will take part in TTRS battles during the school day:
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Year 2 vs Year 3
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Years 4, 5 & 6 in a group battle
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Children should come dressed as a rockstar or a number.
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Reception & Year 1 will enjoy a fun maths day in class and should come dressed as a number.
Let’s make maths rock!
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 19th December Close for Christmas
Well done Year 5, hope you all have a great weekend!
Mrs McVey and Mrs Hodgkiss