All Saints Whole School Mass

On Thursday we all headed over to church to celebrate the feast of All Saints. Gathering as a school for worship is always such an important part of our week and this week we had the opportunity to commemorate and honour all saints, both known and unknown, that have gone to heaven. We know these special people led holy lives and used their time on earth to live out the Word of God. Could we be future saints perhaps? What can we do to show we are people of God? We discussed these questions in class and looked at what makes a saint a saint!

Year 6 Worship

Thank you to Aibhin and Emily for leading this week's worship. They focused on this week's Gospel reading where Jesus delivers the Beatitudes during the Sermon on the Mount. They reflected beautifully on how we can be God's cheerleaders and live out our lives as he wants us to and ended the worship leading the singing of the hymn 'Peace, Perfect Peace.'

This Week's Learning...

Here is what we have been up to this week…

In Maths we began the week finding fractions of amounts before moving on to imperial and metric measurements. We have been converting between units of measurements in order to solve problems. 

In English we continued with our unit on 'Classic Fiction'. This week, we explored some vocabulary, including archaic language, from the opening paragraph of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by Frank L Baum. We then deepened our understanding of this text through close reading. What did this text tell us and what did it show us? We then watched a video clip of the beginning of the film version, focusing on cinematic choices of sounds: what effect did they have?

In Geography we started our first unit 'The UK'. First we did a whiole class quiz to test our existing knowledge on the UK. We then took a blank map of the UK and had a go at located the four countries and capital cities, as well as other islands that at part of the UK. 

In HRSE we had a lesson on the 'Zones of Regulation'. We are using this across the school so we used this lesson to educate ourselves on what the different zones and emotions are and what strategies we can use to help us regulate our emotions when we are in a particular zone. Ask you child at home about the four zones! All of these strategies are things they can use at home as well as school. For example, if they are in the Red Zone, perhaps feeling angry or frustrated, we talked about listening to music, doing breathing exercises, talking to an adult or shaking it out.

In Music this week our school was pary of 'Culture Fest'. On Tuesday and Wednesday we had musicians join us who shared their passion for music. We did singing and listened to instruments from different parts of the world. Year 6 were in a lucky position as after Tuesday's whole school assembly, we had a one-to-one workshop with one of the musicians. Her name was Emmanuela and she was from the Congo in Africa. She shared spome African music with us and has us playing all sorts of instuments to accompany the music. We loved it!

AWARD WINNERS!

Golden Award: this week’s Golden Award went to Stephen for being so respectful to the people around him this week-peers and teachers alike. He has had an incredible week in terms of his learning and social interations.

Writing Award: this week’s Writing Award went to Jackson for the improvement withhis independent writing.

Maths Award: this week’s Maths Award Callum for his valued contribututions and effort in class discussions.

 

Dates For Your Diary

  • Thursday 13th November Year 5 & 6 Class Liturgy (9am) Year 5 & 6 will be leading a remembrace assembly for parents to attend. We would love it if you could join us next Thursday for this shared worship.
  • Family bingo night: 14th November
  • Christmas movie nights: KS1 - 28th November, KS2 - 5th December
  • Christmas Fair: 12th December (after school)
  • Monday 15th December-Peter Pan Pantomime at Lowther Pavilion. Payment can be paid on ParentPay.
  • Friday 19th December-Close for Christmas

Notices

  • Change in PE days!! Due to the hall being unavailable on Friday mornings, I have changed our other PE day to Thursdays instead of Friday. Apologies for the change. Just to confirm, PE days from next week will be on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

  • Water bottles-these need to be filled and brought in each day and taken home to be cleaned at the end of each day. Each child in the class was provided with a school water bottle-please can you ensure these are the bottles that are brought in daily and not their own water bottle from home.

  • Reading books - Year 6 took their STAR Reading test today. They will all revceive their new ZPD for this half term on Monday and will be taking books home within this ZPD range. We do want the children to challenge themselves with their home readers, so please do let me know if you ever think the book they are reading at home is perhaps not challenging enough. 

  • Homework- Please find details on this week’s homework here. If your child very finds any of the homework challenging, please remind them to mention it to me in school and we can go over it together.

  • Contact information- We no longer access the year group email (year6@…) If you need to contact me for any reason, and cannot catch me at the door, feel free to either pop an email to the admin address (with Year 6 in the subject box) or give the school a ring.

 

✝Wednesday Word and TenTen Newsletter✝

Please have a look at this Parent Newsletter linked with our weekly whole school and class worships…

TenTen Parent Newsletter

WEDNESDAY WORD Please follow this link below to access the Gospel Readings for the forthcoming week, there are also some fun activities to complete, this is a fantastic family resource to share and celebrate with your child at home.

Wednesday Word

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Murphy, Mrs Owen & Miss Andrew