To begin our new half term, the whole school went to mass to celebrate the feast of All Saints. All Saints’ Day is celebrated every year on 1st November; it is a holy day in the Catholic Church, celebrating the saints of the church as well as those saints who have not yet been recognised.
During mass, the Gospel reading was the Sermon on the Mount, which was also the focus of our prayer and liturgy this week planned and led by Finlay and Annie. The Gospel is about the special blessings Jesus talks about in the Bible, called the Beatitudes. These are ways Jesus teaches us to live — being kind, gentle, peaceful, and standing up for what is right. Jesus says that people who live this way are truly blessed by God, even when life is hard.
Every time we choose to be kind, fair, gentle, or peaceful, we are living the way Jesus taught us. Let’s try to grow in these ways and help each other to live out the Beatitudes every day. 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.
“Blessed are…” Matthew 5:1-12a
Culture Fest
This week, we were lucky to be involved in a series of global Music workshops, which were held in schools across Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre, delivered by six musicians performing music from Africa, Arabia, Colombia, Zaire, and Stomp Percussion from the UK. In Year 5, we had workshops in singing and drumming from musicians from Colombia and Africa. The children had a great time.
Thank you to those children and parents who were able to join us at the Winter Gardens last night for an interactive concert performance from all six musicians.
Our award winners:
Golden Award (RESPECT) - Austin
Writing Award - Ava
Maths Award - Annie
Our learning this week…
In English, we’ve started our new writing unit on reports, continuing to use the moon landings as our theme. We’ve been exploring new vocabulary and looking at formal language in more detail, comparing it to more informal language.
Our focus in maths has been multiples and factors of numbers.
In RE, we have recapped our work from last half term and have begun to look at who David is and how God called him (1 Samuel 16:1-13).
In Spanish we have been learning to express the date.
In PE the children are working with PE specialist from Blackpool Football Club Community Trust.
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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…
Thursday 13th November Year 5 & 6 Class Liturgy (9am) Please join us for our Remembrance day Liturgy.
Friday 14th November Family bingo night
Friday 5th December KS2 Christmas movie night
Friday 12th December Christmas Fair (after school)
Monday 15th December Peter Pan Pantomime at Lowther Pavilion. Payment can be paid on ParentPay.
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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